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NASA is adding a third company to its short list of space station suppliers, a Nevada business that will bring back a mini version of the shuttle.

ESA's XMM-Newton has found a wind of high-speed gas streaming from the centre of a bright spiral galaxy like our own that may be reducing its ability to produce new stars.

When some swift, massive stars -- moving at speeds faster than 50,000 miles an hour -- plow through space, they can cause material to stack up in front of them in the same way that water piles up ahead of...

An independent safety panel warns that "a continuing and unacknowledged accretion of risk" in NASA's human space exploration programs, caused by schedule pressures and flat funding, could put crews on future missions in ...

NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter has broken the record to become humanity's most distant solar-powered emissary. The milestone occurred at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST, 19:00 UTC) on Wednesday, Jan. 13, when Juno was about 493 ...

For the first time, scientists have spotted large patches of water ice on the surface of a comet, thanks to instruments aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta orbiter.

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) In a new study, researchers describe the most luminous supernova yet observed, which resides in an unusual host galaxy.

Uluru/Ayers Rock in the Australian outback, imaged from 600 km away by the smallest camera on one of ESA's smallest satellites - the technology demonstrator turned-operational Earth-observing mission Proba-1.

(Ohio State University) Astronomers have spotted what may be the brightest supernova ever seen -- and discovered a mysterious object at its center.

A team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Benjamin Shappee, Nidia Morrell, and Ian Thompson, has discovered the most-luminous supernova ever observed, called ASAS-SN-15lh. Their findings are published in Science.

NASA has awarded three cargo contracts to ensure the critical science, research and technology demonstrations that are informing the agency's journey to Mars are delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) from 20...

Virgin Galactic has unveiled a new flight suit ahead of the unveiling of its latest space ship. These suits, however, don't look like your average Virgin products and feature a classy black look rather than the expected ...

Composite image of Hurricane Alex from 12:00 UTC on Thursday, 14 January 2016....

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A blazing-bright object appears to be the most luminous supernova ever witnessed, and it's blowing the top off researchers' models of how such explosions are powered.

How is a supernova different from a hypernova? Learn about the different types of exploding stars that astronomers have identified.

A team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Benjamin Shappee, Nidia Morrell, and Ian Thompson, has discovered the most-luminous supernova ever observed, called ASAS-SN-15lh. Their findings are published in Science.

A stellar explosion almost 600 billion times brighter than the sun pushes the limits of physics  --

The NOAA GOES-East satellite captured Hurricane Alex forming in the Atlantic Ocean from Jan 10th-14th, 2016. Atlantic hurricanes very rarely develop during winter months.

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NASA's Juno mission, the first solar-powered mission to Jupiter, has become the farthest solar-powered spacecraft ever! Juno, and its eight science instruments designed to study the interior of Jupiter, has passed the ma...

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