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This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Joe Latrell at his Photos To Space blog.

It was less than an hour into the new day of January 15, 2006 (EST), when tens of thousands of miles above our planet, two cable cutters and two retention bolts fired, releasing a spring which pushed a 101-pound (46-kilo...

Tim Peake remembers his favourite Star Wars experience before his launch into space

ESA's Sentinel-3 Payload Manager Constantin Mavrocordatos and Spacecraft and Launch Campaign Manager Kristof Gantois join the show to tell us more about the Sentinel-3A satellite and its mission

Like their cohort on the ground, astronauts aboard the U.S. segment of the International Space Station will take a day off today (Jan. 18) to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr.

Stars like the Sun begin their lives as cold, dense cores of dust and gas that collapse under the influence of gravity until nuclear fusion is ignited. These cores contain hundreds to thousands of solar-masses of materia...

The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is known as NGC 3597. It is the product of a collision between two good-sized galaxies, and is slowly evolving to become a giant elliptical galaxy. This type of g...

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Intel and Austria's Ars Electronica Futurelab collaborated to set a new Guinness World Record for conducting the Most Unmanned Arial Vehicles Airborne Simultaneously. Intel's chief believes drones will replace fireworks ...

[caption id="attachment_126865" align="aligncenter" width="800"] SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage tips over and explodes on Pacific ocean droneship after landing leg fails to lock in place on Jan 17, 2016. Credit: SpaceX See ...

Yesterday, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space, carrying the critically important Jason-3 Earth-observing satellite into orbit. That was the primary mission of the launch, and it went smoothly and p...

The first flower grown in space has bloomed. NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, International Space Station gardener, shared photos of the prized zinnias this weekend.

"If you don't explore the various options of what life may be like in the universe, you won't know what to look for when you go out to find it," said Washington State University planetary scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch. "...

A team of astronomers has found an enigmatic gas cloud, called CO-0.40-0.22, only 200 light years away from the center of the Milky Way. What makes CO-0.40-0.22 unusual is its surprisingly wide velocity dispersion: the c...

Monday's briefing begins with LightSquared seeking FCC approval for a plan it says will allow its broadband service to co-exist with GPS, plus a look at the week ahead. SpaceNews.com

OK, this is getting pretty weird. First, a little background: You've probably heard of the star KIC 8462852 (though maybe by it's nickname, Tabby's Star, after Tabetha Boyajian, the woman who lead the team that's studyin...

"That's no moon..." But in this case, it is (sorry Ben), and that Moon is headed to temporarily obliterate (occult) the view of the bright star Aldebaran as seen from the Earth on the evening of January 19th and into the...

NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Tim Peake completed the primary task for their spacewalk on January 15, 2016 before it was ended early by Mission Control Houston....

A video posted late Sunday by billionaire Elon Musk shows just how close his spaceflight company SpaceX came to landing its Falcon 9 rocket on a robotic platform parked in the Pacific Ocean yesterday (Jan. 17).

Once a figment of science fiction films, the sometimes risky notion of mining in space may soon become a reality if asteroid mining hopeful Planetary Resources has its way.

Tim Peake is the first official British astronaut to walk in space. The former Army Air Corps officer has spent a month in space, after blasting off on a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station on Decembe...

"Human beings are very good at pattern recognition. The dynamic range that our eyes and our brains offer is much greater than a computer algorithm," said Anupreeta More, a project researcher at the Kavli Institute for th...