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Jupiter may be the biggest planet, but it sure seems to get picked on. On March 17, amateur astronomer Gerrit Kernbauer of Mödling, Austria, a small town just south of Vienna, was filming Jupiter through his 7.8-inch (2...

This image of a planetary alignment and the Milky Way was taken by Justin Ng on Feb. 18, 2016 from Singapore.

A team of researchers will launch a well-studied fungus into space with the hope that it will produce new molecules to aid in novel medicines for astronauts as well as patients on the ground.

Star formation is taking place all around us. The Milky Way is laced with clouds of dust and gas that could become the nursery of the next generation of stars. Thanks to ESA's Herschel space observatory, we can now look ...

Following the discovery of gravitational waves from the merging of two black holes, ESA's INTEGRAL satellite has revealed no simultaneous gamma rays, just as models predict.

Scientists have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the NSF's Jansky Very Large Array to determine the likely trigger for the most recent supernova in the Milky Way. They applied a new technique that coul...

The search for radio signals from alien worlds is expanding to 20,000 star systems that were previously considered poor targets for intelligent extraterrestrial life, US researchers said Wednesday.

American Astronomical Society:

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope:

An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, has obtained the most detailed 'fingerprint' of a rocky planet outside our solar system to date, and found a planet of two halves: one that is alm...

Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the first temperature map of a super-Earth planet -- a rocky planet nearly two times as big as ours. The map reveals extreme temperature swings from one side o...

Space habitats have long been an object of fascination for thinkers, dreamers, and engineers. Science fiction is littered with space habitats, whether in books or movies. And their designs have ranged from titanic, uber-...

The space agency has embarked on a long and arduous process to select a new grand space observatory that will meet the needs of astronomers in the mid-2030s --

A new study from climate scientists Robert DeConto at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and David Pollard at Pennsylvania State University suggests that the most recent estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on C...

An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, has obtained the most detailed 'fingerprint' of a rocky planet outside our solar system to date, and found a planet of two halves: one that is alm...

The super-Earth 55 Cancri e may have a magma ocean or windblown clouds of vaporized rock --

The super-Earth 55 Cancri e may have a magma ocean or windblown clouds of vaporized rock --

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Triple sunsets occur on one newly spotted exoplanet, though two of the suns only set every 2,000 years or so.

Amateur astronomer captures stunning time-lapse video of the impact --

Star formation is taking place all around us. The Milky Way is laced with clouds of dust and gas that could become the nursery of the next generation of stars. Thanks to ESA's Herschel space observatory, we can now look....

"We want to see the distant worlds through a telescope, but it implies that the distant worlds might see us as well. An advanced technology -- by only some of 50 to 100 years -- could be enough to do...