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Known simply as 'Gravity', this multi-mode interferometer combines light from several telescopes to enable observations simulating a single extremely large telescope.

The images were captured last month by NASA's Dawn spacecraft from a distance of just 240 miles (385 kilometers) -- the final and closest of a series of orbits for the probe, which has been circling Ceres since March 201...

Last month, the private spaceflight company SpaceX achieved an amazing feat: launching a rocket into space, and then landing it back on Earth in a history-making moment.

The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress, has issued its annual report examining NASA's safety performance in 2015 and highlighting accomplishments, issues and c...

The long-delayed first satellite in the U.S. Air Force's GPS 3 program has passed a key test, a top Lockheed Martin executive said Jan. 13. SpaceNews.com

NASA's RapidScat instrument and Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM core satellite analyzed the surface winds and rainfall rates occurring System 90L, an unusual storm in the Northern Atlantic Ocean, which may become...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

An enormous gas cloud in the early universe has a very small amount of the heavy elements that would form in later stellar generations, suggesting that it was "polluted" by the very first stars.

Europe's Rosetta spacecraft has spotted big grains of water ice on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; the grains may have formed after heat from the sun vaporized buried water ice, which then recondensed and...

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Lead Spacewalk officer for U.S. EVA #35 Paul Dum walks through the tasks for the planned 6.5 hour spacewalk. Set to be performed by NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Tim Peake on Jan. 15, 2016, the spacewalk will focus on...

Zooming in on black holes is the main mission for the newly installed instrument GRAVITY at ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile. During its first observations, GRAVITY successfully combined starlight using all four Auxil...

In spring of 2015, dark matter may have been observed for the first time interacting with other dark matter in a way other than through the force of gravity. Observations of colliding galaxies made with ESO's Very Large ...

Zooming in on black holes is the main mission for the newly installed instrument GRAVITY at ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile....

A volcano steaming into the air in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska....

Private spaceflight company will try to land the first stage of its two-stage Falcon 9 rocket on an uncrewed ship in the Pacific --

Zooming in on black holes is the main mission for the newly installed instrument GRAVITY at ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile. In particular, GRAVITY will probe what happens in the extremely strong gravitational field ...

Preparation continues for Tim Peake and Tim Kopra for Friday's 7:55 a.m. EST spacewalk. Today, they will be re-familiarizing themselves with the tools needed to perform the Sequential Shunt Unit (SSU) change out....

The ExoMars program consists of two missions. The first - an Orbiter + Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator - is slated to launch in March 2016. Both will carry science payloads.

Zooming in on black holes is the main mission for the newly installed instrument GRAVITY at ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile. During its first observations, GRAVITY successfully combined starlight using all four Auxil...

Wednesday's briefing begins with the commander of the 45th Launch Group predicting a busy 2016 for Cape Canaveral. SpaceNews.com

It's a common theme in science fiction, but migrating to planets beyond our solar system will be a lot more complicated and difficult than you might imagine --