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On Mar. 17, 2016, an amateur astronomer in Mödling, Austria was taking video of Jupiter using a 20 cm telescope. This is a common technique to capture thousands of frames of an object, so that the best parts of each fra...

On Saturday a Cygnus cargo vehicle arrived at the International Space Station. On board: a variety of experiments. Some of the experiments made it to the ISS via CASIS - a non-profit organization that relies on NASA for ...

When a team of astronomers found a galaxy in the direction of Ursa Major two years ago, they weren't sure what to make of it.

In February, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration announced it had detected gravitational waves for the first time, confirming the last prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Somewhat overlooked in the excite...

NASA has completed a major milestone on its journey to Mars and is ready to begin another phase of work on its spaceport of the future, where the next generation of astronauts will launch to Mars and other deep-space des...

NASA has awarded a contract to Science Systems and Applications, Inc. of Lanham, Maryland, to conduct atmospheric sciences support services for the Science Directorate at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virgin...

The U.S. Air Force has found no evidence that a Japanese astronomy satellite that malfunctioned March 26 was struck by debris, making a technical problem the more likely culprit. SpaceNews.com

The U.S. Air Force has concluded that a Japanese astronomy satellite that malfunctioned March 26 was not struck by debris, meaning the spacecraft likely suffered from a technical problem. SpaceNews.com

A report released by the Federal Aviation Administration reveals more than 600 instances of near-collisions and sightings between drones and airplanes have been reported.

Astronomers using an orbiting radio telescope in conjunction with four ground-based radio telescopes have achieved the highest resolution, or ability to discern fine detail, of any astronomical observation ever made. The...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has lost contact with its X-ray Astronomy Satellite Hitomi (ASTRO-H.) Hitomi was launched on February 17th, for a 3-year mission to study black holes. But now that mission...

Astronomers using an orbiting radio telescope in conjunction with four ground-based radio telescopes have achieved the highest resolution, or ability to discern fine detail, of any astronomical observation ever made. The...

NASA has selected a team to build a new, cutting-edge instrument that will detect planets outside our solar system by measuring the miniscule "wobbling" of stars. The instrument will be the centerpiece of a new partnersh...

The first scientific Roadmap for European Astrobiology was published on March 21st. This strategic landmark for European astrobiology has been produced through the European Commission-funded AstRoMap project (2013-2015)....

Before the Cygnus cargo tug that reached the International Space Station on March 26 makes its mission-ending plunge back to Earth, NASA will spend a week playing with fire onboard the unmanned capsule in an effort to im...

Astrophotographer John Chumack took this image from mountains about 60 miles east of Fairbanks, Alaska on March 19, 2015 while leading his annual aurora tour and workshop.

My friend Michelle Thaller is an amazing person. I met her when she was doing public outreach for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope mission many years ago, and she has since risen in the ranks at NASA to become the deputy d...

The Air Force has stopped trying to recover a two-year-old weather satellite after operators lost the ability to command the spacecraft last month, an Air Force spokesman said March 24.

How did galaxy clusters evolve over time? What did they look like billions of years ago? To answer these questions, astronomers look back in time to our youthful universe. Because light takes time to reach us, we can see...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Marc Rayman, chief engineer and mission director of NASA's Dawn spacecraft, takes us on a tour of Ceres with images collected during the mission's first year. Video by NASA/JPL/CalTech --

The last decade has seen a bonanza of exoplanet discoveries. Nearly 2,000 exoplanets -- planets outside our solar system -- have been confirmed so far, and more than 5,000 candidate exoplanets have been identified. Many ...