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Radio astronomers from Bonn University and the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie have reached a scientific milestone with their publication in the January issue of the international science journal Astronomy & Ast...

What's the perfect holiday gift for any space fan? It's the 2016 version of Steve Cariddi's amazing Year in Space Wall Calendar, which is now available to order. And thanks to Steve, Universe Today has another 5 copies t...

A team of scientists led by Marc Lessard of the University of New Hampshire Space Science Center launched an instrument-laden, four-stage sounding rocket from Norway's Andøya Space Center about 280 miles above Earth to ...

Climate change is rapidly warming lakes around the world, threatening freshwater supplies and ecosystems, according to a new NASA and National Science Foundation-funded study of more than half of the world's freshwater s...

Construction equipment and vehicles that have sat idle since protesters blocked crews from building a giant telescope are being removed from a mountain that's considered sacred to some Native Hawaiians.

This month, the NASA-funded FORTIS sounding rocket--short for Far-ultraviolet Off Rowland-circle Telescope for Imaging and Spectroscopy--will launch from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to investigate the pro...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The gigantic accelerator in Europe has produced hints of an exotic particle that defies the known laws of physics --

Two satellites designed and built by students, researchers and faculty from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have been successfully launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh, India, on Wedn...

Fifty years ago, two spacecraft met in orbit, achieving the first-ever rendezvous between piloted vehicles. On Dec. 15, two more craft met above Earth, but as a matter of routine, underscoring the progress made in the pa...

UNSW Australia astronomers have discovered the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system so far, orbiting a star just 14 light years away.

Sen. Richard Shelby argues that it is far too risky to ban the use of the Russian engine that powers the Atlas 5 before we have a reliable U.S. alternative. SpaceNews.com

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found the clearest indications yet that planets with masses several times that of Jupiter have recently formed in the discs of gas and dust a...

A team made up almost entirely of current and former Carnegie scientists has discovered a highly unusual planetary system comprised of a Sun-like star, a dwarf star, and an enormous planet sandwiched in between.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the image of the first-ever predicted supernova explosion. The reappearance of the Refsdal supernova was calculated from different models of the galaxy cluster whose immen...

An early look at what to expect from Episode VII.

Tim Kopra of NASA, Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency), and Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos joined their Expedition 46 crewmates aboard the orbiting laboratory when the hatches between the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft and...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, NOAA will get $809 million for the first two JPSS satellites and $871.8 million for the GOES-R satellite program. SpaceNews.com

The Andromeda galaxy (or M31) is the massive galaxy nearest to us, and it is an excellent laboratory to study the characteristics and the history of great galactic spirals such as our own Milky Way....

The launch, PSLV's 31st straight success, included TeLEOS-1, Singapore's first domestically built commercial Earth observation spacecraft. SpaceNews.com

A rocket was launched on Sunday 13 December 2015 to study the Earth's magnetic field above Norway....