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An Ariane 5 lifted off this morning to deliver telecom satellite Eutelsat-65 West A into its planned transfer orbit. Liftoff of flight VA229 occurred at 05:20 GMT (02:20 local time, 06:20 CET) from Europe's Spaceport in ...

China has plans to build a new space telescope which should outperform Hubble. According to the Chinese English Language Daily, the new telescope will be similar to Hubble, but will have a field of view that is 300 times...

Mercury has been found to have a dark side with graphite, a crystalline form of carbon commonly found in pencils, being the source of the mysterious dark colouration of the planet's surface.

Cosmic dust is not simply something to sweep under the rug and forget about.

We're a long ways away from colonizing another planet--depending on who you talk to--but it's not too soon to start understanding how we might do it when the time comes. Growing enough food will be one of the primary con...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

In about 4 billion years, scientists estimate that the Andromeda and the Milky Way galaxies are expected to collide, based on data from the Hubble Space Telescope. And when they merge, they will give rise to a super-gala...

NASA collaborated with the Exploratorium in San Francisco and the National Science Foundation to provide live coverage of the 2016 total solar eclipse from Micronesia, on March 8. The fully eclipsed sun was visible from ...

The Expedition 47 trio conducted a wide variety of science today. The crew explored life science, physics research and crew performance....

A Mars mission that had to cancel plans to launch this month because of an instrument problem will instead fly in 2018, although the additional cost to NASA will not be known for several months. SpaceNews.com

NASA's commercial partner Orbital ATK plans to launch its Cygnus spacecraft into orbit on March 22, 2016 atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for its fifth contracted resupply mission to the International Space S...

When I first wrote about Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs -- and please read the follow-up on that) -- sudden cosmic blasts of radio waves that come and go in milliseconds -- I mentioned that lots of different unrelated phenom...

Where in the Milky Way are we most likely to encounter advanced forms of like? Virginia Trimble, of the University of California, Irvine and one of the world's leading astronomers specializing in the structure and evolut...

Instrument problems prevented the Martian lander from launching in March 2016 as planned --

Tim Peake @astro_timpeake "I never imagined a desert could look so magnificent" Larger image...

Timing is everything. An enormous solar prominence bloomed out into the corona during the March 9th, 2016 solar eclipse, visible in parts of Southeast Asia.

NASA's next Mars mission is still alive.

As they approach the ends of their lives many stars develop stable discs of gas and dust around them....

It is business as usual as NASA engineers prepare for an upcoming RS-25 rocket engine test at Stennis Space Center. They are well-versed on all of the pre-test work to be done, having conducted a very successful series o...

ESA Top News:

A team of ESO astronomers has found that discs around old stars are very similar to the planet-forming ones around young stars. Whether a second crop of planets can really form around these old stars is yet to be determi...

NASA has announced the winners of two challenges to create new concepts for construction and human habitation on future space exploration missions, including the agency's journey to Mars.