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In order to learn about galaxies as they were forming soon after the Big Bang, and about nearby but much smaller and fainter objects, astronomers need more powerful telescopes.

Standard cosmology -- that is, the Big Bang Theory with its early period of exponential growth known as inflation -- is the prevailing scientific model for our universe, in which the entirety of space and time ballooned ...

SpaceX carried out a test of a recovered Falcon 9 first stage late Jan. 15 as the company prepares for its next launch and landing attempt.

SpaceX representatives are cautiously optimistic that they'll be able to land the first stage of the company's Falcon 9 rocket on a ship at sea Sunday (Jan. 17), even though waves in the landing zone are expected to be 1...

Look at that picture! Seriously, this is one of the single most amazing optical phenomena I have ever seen, and I've seen a lot of weird stuff. It was taken on Jan. 13, 2015 by Mia Heikkilä in Eura, Finland, and I'll ad...

Scientists with NASA's New Horizons mission have assembled this highest-resolution color view of one of two potential cryovolcanoes spotted on the surface of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015....

A $180 million satellite to study the world's oceans in a changing climate will blast off Sunday atop a Falcon 9 rocket, which SpaceX will try to land on a floating platform after launch.

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Tropical Storm Alex quickly acquired extra-tropical characteristics late on Jan. 15, 2016 as it sped northward toward Greenland in the North Atlantic Ocean. A GOES-East satellite image ...

Galaxies, hot gas and dark matter combine, drawn by gravity, to create the Pandora Cluster.

A team of astronomers led by Tomoharu Oka, a professor at Keio University in Japan, has found an enigmatic gas cloud, called CO-0.40-0.22, only 200 light years away from the center of the Milky Way....

Well, really it's more like the far side of the moon.

ESA astronaut Tim Peake during his 4 hour 43 minute spacewalk to replace a failed power regulator and install cabling....

Get ready to spot a well-known constellation "charging in" this week, ready to dazzle.

Thanks to the Internet, amateur volunteers known as "citizen scientists" can readily donate their time and effort to science--in fields ranging from medicine to zoology to astrophysics. The astrophysics project Space War...

ESA astronaut Tim Peake captures his spacewalk with Earth reflecting in his helmet's visor

Flight Director Royce Renfrew discusses the early end to the spacewalk on January 15, 2016 which included NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Tim Peake....