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It doesn't exactly qualify as eye candy, but the first image from the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars spacecraft is beautiful to behold in its own way. For most of us, a picture like this would mean something went horribly wrong w...

Astronomers have found a pair of stellar oddballs out in the edges of our galaxy. The stars in question are a binary pair, and the two companions are moving much faster than anything should be in that part of the galaxy....

Students from Columbia University in New York will have the opportunity to speak with a NASA astronaut currently living and working on the International Space Station at 1:10 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 21. The 20-minute, E...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Britain's export-credit agency may be the most attractive source of satellite project financing that almost none one has heard of or uses. SpaceNews.com

A new study suggests that the majority of dwarf galaxies may simply not be seen because they're mainly composed of invisible dark matter and emit little if any light."We can find these invisible objects in the same way t...

Swiss manufacturer Ruag Space will build composite payload fairings for United Launch Alliance's future Vulcan launch vehicle at ULA's Alabama plant, the companies announced April 12. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Multiple satellites, including Europe's Sentinels, have captured images of two large icebergs that broke away from Antarctica's Nansen ice shelf on 7 April....

"By some estimates, it rose nearly as rapidly as we're putting CO2 into the atmosphere today," says Frank Corsetti, a geobiologist at the USC. "We wanted to see how the Earth system responded from a rapid rise of CO2. Th...

Our week through the lens: 11-15 April 2016

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center:

Jupiter's moon Europa is under a constant gravitational assault. As it orbits, Europa's icy surface heaves and falls with the pull of Jupiter's gravity, creating enough heat, scientists think, to support a global ocean b...

A wireless leak detection system created by University of Maine researchers is scheduled to board a SpaceX rocket bound for the International Space Station this summer.

The Sentinel-1A satellite takes us over to Ireland, in this multi-temporal colour composite of land coverage across the island. With a coastline of 7500 km, Ireland is home to some 4.8 million people and a wealth of hist...

The International Space Station will get a new module Saturday when the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is removed from the SpaceX Dragon and installed on the Tranquility module. BEAM will be attached to the st...

Here are the biggest challenges Stephen Hawking and others on the Breakthrough Starshot team will have to overcome to make interstellar spaceflight a reality.

A nebula known as "the Spider" glows fluorescent green in an infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). The Spider, officially named IC 417, lies near a much smaller obj...

On April 14, 1981, the rear wheels of the space shuttle orbiter Columbia touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base, NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center (then Dryden Flight Research Center), in souther...

Look up this weekend to catch bright Mars as it begins a zigzag detour across the spring sky.

One of the world's largest physics meetings kicks off in Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 16. Talks at the meeting will cover astro-, particle and gravitational physics.

An enormous space "spider," glowing a strange and radioactive shade of green, stretches its many legs across the cosmos in a stunning new NASA photo.