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A giant star that exploded 30 million years ago in a galaxy near Earth had a radius prior to going supernova that was 200 times larger than our sun, according to astrophysicists at Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

On April 17, 2016, an active region on the sun's right side released a mid-level solar flare, which can be seen in this movie as a bright flash of light.

Of the hundreds of moons in our solar system, Titan is the only one with a dense atmosphere and large liquid reservoirs on its surface, making it in some ways more like a terrestrial planet.

Imagine you want to measure the size of a room, but it's completely dark. If you shout, you can tell if the space you're in is relatively big or small, depending on how long it takes to hear the echo...

Is there life on other planets, somewhere in this enormous Universe? That's probably the most compelling question we can ask. A lot of space science and space missions are pointed directly at that question. The Kepler mi...

A draft version of a House policy bill would authorize $3 million for the Air Force to determine if commercial weather data could help meet a wide-range of Defense Department weather requirements. SpaceNews.com

Peering to the outskirts of our solar system, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a small, dark moon orbiting Makemake, the second brightest icy dwarf planet -- after Pluto -- in the Kuiper Belt.

Now that scientists have confirmed the existence of gravitational waves, a NASA team is set to search for a predicted signature of primordial gravitational waves that would prove the infant universe expanded far faster t...

Peering to the outskirts of our solar system, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a small, dark moon orbiting Makemake, the second brightest icy dwarf planet--after Pluto--in the Kuiper Belt.

A giant star that exploded 30 million years ago had a radius prior to going supernova that was 200 times larger than our sun. The explosion, termed by astronomers Supernova 2013ej, in galaxy M74 near our Milky Way was eq...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The surface of Mars -- including the location of Beagle-2 -- has been shown in unprecedented detail by UCL scientists using a revolutionary image stacking and matching technique....

A giant star that exploded 30 million years ago in a galaxy near Earth had a radius prior to going supernova that was 200 times larger than our sun, according to astrophysicists at Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

Peering to the outskirts of our solar system, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a small, dark moon orbiting Makemake, the second brightest icy dwarf planet after Pluto in the Kuiper Belt....

NASA has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne to design and develop an advanced solar electric propulsion (SEP) system that will serve as a critical enabling technology for sending humans and robots on deep space exploration miss...

An extended mission for the space probe would take it to a small Kuiper Belt object in 2019 --

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Technology image of the week: the eerie blue exhaust trail of a T6 ion thruster, a quartet of which will transport BepiColombo towards the innermost planet

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope:

This past February, a team of scientists has tracked down for the first time the location of a fast radio burst (FRB) in a distant elliptical galaxy -- a huge football-shaped mass of stars, confirming that these short bu...

The answer lies in overcoming known and yet-to-be discovered hurdles - it'll be a wild ride --

When atoms or molecules get excited (say, by getting hit with tons of high-energy radiation) they give off very specific wavelengths of light Astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter explains.