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Major improvements to methods used to process observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have yielded an expanded, higher-quality set of data that allows astronomers to produce the most detailed census of t...

A senior European Commission official on Jan. 12 said the commission should have a direct role in the design of Europe's next-generation rocket and the organization of Europe's launch sector, having missed the opportunit...

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) shared this photo taken aboard the International Space Station on Jan. 11, 2015, during preparations for a spacewalk, or extra-vehicular activity (EVA)......

Newly released footage from inside SpaceX's factory shows employees' excitement - and some unique camera angles - as the private spaceflight company's booster returns from lofting 11 Orbcomm satellites on Dec. 21st, 2015...

More than 2,300 scientists, teachers and journalists are in Florida this week for a conference dubbed "The Super Bowl of Astronomy." Keep up with the latest news via Space.com's complete coverage.

Scientists working with the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observatory have reported the discovery of the most energetic pulsed emission radiation ever detected from the neutron star in the center ...

This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

So are we likely to ever find gravitational waves? And would they really provide irrefutable evidence for the Big Bang? Here are five common myths and misconceptions about gravitational waves.

The old adage that says "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" has finally been put to the test - mathematically - in research led by the University of Adelaide.

A brief rundown of the biggest spaceflight milestones to keep an eye out for this year --

Scientists will send a few final prods to robot lab Philae, incommunicado on the surface of a comet hurtling through space, but hopes for a reply are running out, they said Tuesday.

Scientists working with the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observatory have reported the discovery of the most energetic pulsed emission radiation ever detected from the neutron star in the center ...

Square Kilometer Array: Cape Town, 12 January 2015 - Five students from Carnarvon - the nearest town to the SKA site in South Africa - have been selected to receive full bursaries from SKA South Africa (SKA SA) to conduc...

The ringed planet looms over its moon Tethys, reducing the 660-mile-wide (1,062 kilometers) satellite to a tiny dot in the new image, which was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in March 2015 but just released today ...

Have you seen it? 2016 has kicked off with a fine apparition of a binocular comet: C/2013 US10 Catalina. We've been following this icy visitor to the inner solar system the first few mornings of the year, a welcome addit...

In the new SyFy series "The Expanse," colonists live on a Ceres that is very different from the dwarf planet seen today -- but what if NASA were to send a human mission out to Ceres as it is now, without changing the dwa...

Just a reminder that this is a real place and we've sent spaceships there.

A supposed nuclear test facility in North Korea shows substantial changes over several years, according to analysis of DigitalGlobe satellite imagery from Spaceknow.

"Twenty years ago, this would have been heretical; finding evidence of life 3.8 billion years ago was shocking," said Mark Harrison, a professor of geochemistry at UCLA and a a member of the National Academy of Sciences....

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Features on dwarf planet Ceres that piqued the interest of scientists throughout 2015 stand out in exquisite detail in the latest images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which recently reached its lowest-ever altitude at Cer...

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