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Reticulum II is an ancient and faint dwarf galaxy discovered in images taken as part of the Dark Energy Survey. It orbits the Milky Way galaxy about 100,000 light years away from us. Though the galaxy looks unassuming at...

Solar storms trigger Jupiter's intense 'Northern Lights' by generating a new X-ray aurora that is eight times brighter than normal and hundreds of times more energetic than Earth's aurora borealis, finds new UCL-led rese...

Tuesday's briefing begins with UAE selecting Japan's H-2A rocket to launch its Mars orbiter in 2020. SpaceNews.com

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

An Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo spacecraft is scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station tonight (March 22) at 11:05 p.m. EDT (0305 GMT on March 23). You can watch the liftoff live on Space.com, courtesy of N...

Scientists from NASA's Dawn mission have unveiled new images from the spacecraft's lowest orbit at Ceres, including highly-anticipated views of Occator Crater....

NASA's planet hunter, the Kepler space telescope, has captured the brilliant flash of an exploding star's shock wave--what astronomers call the "shock breakout" of a supernova--for the first time in visible light wavelen...

Fresh supplies are due to ship out late Tuesday for the International Space Station, where the shelves finally are getting full after a string of failed supply runs.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Scientists from NASA's Dawn mission unveiled new images from the spacecraft's lowest orbit at Ceres, including highly-anticipated views of Occator Crater, at the 47th annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The ...

The Kepler spacecraft has captured the "shock breakout" of a distant supernova, a twenty minute event that signals the end of a stars life. The post Kepler Catches Early Flash Of An Exploding Star appeared first on Unive...

Astronomers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they have observed the most luminous galaxies ever seen in the Universe, objects so bright that established descriptors such as "ultra-" and "hyper-lumin...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

We are in the middle of a double comet encounter -- do astronomers view this unprecedented event as a worrying near-miss? Or is it an exciting opportunity to learn more about these mysterious icy objects?

When you start your car in the morning or cook your dinner at night, chances are a satellite is helping you do it. We depend on fossil fuels pulled from the Earth's crust for 82% of the energy we use. The world may not n...

Oh, I love the Internet sometimes. Last week was the vernal equinox. When I wrote about it, I talked a bit about what it means for the position of the Sun when it sets on the horizon during the year. On the equinoctes (y...

Ten billion years ago, long before the Sun and Earth were formed, areas of the Universe were inhabited by monstrous galaxies located right at the intersection of the dark matter filaments with star formation rates hundre...

An Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft launched into space atop an Atlas V rocket on March 22, 2016 to deliver 3.5 tons of supplies to the International Space Station. See dazzling photos of the nighttime launch from Cape Cana...

The ISS resupply mission launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on March 22nd, 2016 atop an United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. The uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft is carrying supplies, experiments and h...

The Expedition 47 crew is at full strength after the arrival of three new crew members Friday night. NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin will be familiarizing themselves with s...

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Last sunlit lunch in solitude at Concordia research station in Antarctica