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Hundreds of galaxies hidden from sight by our own Milky Way galaxy have been studied for the first time. Though only 250 million light years away--which isn't that far for galaxies--they have been obscured by the gas and...

The glowing region in this new image from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope is a reflection nebula known as IC 2631. These objects are clouds of cosmic dust that reflect light from a nearby star into space, creating a stun...

This is the micro-lander that ESA's proposed Asteroid Impact Mission would put down on its target asteroid....

Uluru is a gigantic sandstone monolith in the Australian Outback. And I do mean gigantic; it's three kilometers (10,000 feet) across its widest point, and juts up an imposing 350 meters into the sky. Well, imposing from ...

A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket launched Feb. 10 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, carrying a classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. SpaceNews.com

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captured this beige desert image as the International Space Station passed over Africa....

Gravity waves, gravitational waves and primordial gravitational waves... what do they mean? Is there a difference?

Three federal offices that deal with commercial space issues, which combined received less than $20 million in 2016, would get large -- on a percentage basis -- increases in the proposed fiscal year 2017 budget. SpaceNew...

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's campaign to sustain its fleet of polar-orbiting environmental satellites would receive more money next year even as NOAA's overall space spending would dip sligh...

The Obama administration is proposing to accelerate efforts to build the Landsat 9 satellite and launch it in 2021 instead of 2023 as currently planned. SpaceNews.com

The glowing region in this new image from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope is a reflection nebula known as IC 2631....

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of cloud streets and sea ice in the Sea of Okhotsk on Feb. 8, 2016....

Gemini Observatory :

On Friday, Feb. 12, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched their sixth satellite dedicated to X-ray astronomy, ASTRO-H, from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima, Japan. The observatory carries a sta...

Read all about the mysterious spacetime ripples known as gravitational waves, and what their discovery would mean for astronomy.

It could mark the birth of a new kind of astronomy --

NASA scientists and others cast doubt on an assertion from Indian authorities that a meteorite killed a bus driver earlier this week.

In September 2014, a group of astronomers including R. Brent Tully of the University of Hawaii and Hélène Courtois of the University of Lyon determined that our Milky Way galaxy is part of a newly identified enormous s...

The moon illuminates the Mediterranean Sea in unusual ways in a photograph taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station.

The National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-45 satellite blasted off this morning (Feb. 10) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 6:39 a.m. EST (3:39 a.m. local time; 1139 GMT), riding a United Launch Alliance De...

NASA on Wednesday said it was unlikely a meteorite was responsible for killing a man at a college campus in India last week, as local scientists continued to examine the mysterious object recovered from the scene.

A rocket carrying a U.S. national defense payload was successfully launched from California before dawn Wednesday, the Air Force said.