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With imagery that has the potential to be 15 percent sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope, the behemoth telescope will give humanity the ability to see and understand far more of our Universe.

Falling rains or changing seasons may produce bubbles on Saturn's moon Titan that create the magic islands that have long puzzled scientists.

The same laser system being developed to blast tiny spacecraft between the stars could also launch human missions to Mars, protect Earth from dangerous asteroids and help get rid of space junk, project leaders say.

A new analysis of the ALMA data for a young star HL Tauri provides yet more firm evidence of baby planets around the star. Researchers uncovered two gaps in the gas disk around HL Tauri. The locations of these gaps in th...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance composing most of the material universe, now widely thought to be some form of massive exotic particle....

An international team of scientists has identified a common phenomenon in galaxies that could explain why huge numbers of them turn into cosmic graveyards. Galaxies begin their existence as lively and colorful spiral gal...

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. - Just three weeks after SpaceX's last launch from their Florida launch base, the growing and influential aerospace firm is deep into commencing their next space spectacular - targe...

NASA Glenn Research Center:

SpaceX and NASA managers are targeting July 16 for the launch of the ninth Dragon commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. Meanwhile, U.S. and Russian spaceships are being packed for upcoming depar...

People who aren't particularly enthusiastic about space science and space exploration often accuse those of us who are, of "living in a bubble." There are so many seemingly intractable problems here on Earth, so they say...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

An international team of scientists, including the University of Kentucky's Renbin Yan, have uncovered a new class of galaxies, called "red geysers," with supermassive black hole winds so hot and energetic that stars can...

On July 14th, 2015, the New Horizons probe made history as it passed within 12,500 km (7,800 mi) of Pluto, thus making it the first spacecraft to explore the dwarf planet up close. And since this historic flyby, scientis...

An international team of scientists has identified a common phenomenon in galaxies that could explain why huge numbers of them turn into cosmic graveyards.

Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe:

The European Southern Observatory has signed a contract for construction to begin on what will be the largest optical telescope ever built.

"Back then, Earth received only about 70 percent of the energy from the sun than it does today," said Vladimir Airapetian, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "That means Earth should have been an ic...

Finding examples of intelligent life other than our own in the Universe is hard work. Between spending decades listening to space for signs of radio traffic - which is what the good people at the SETI Institute have been...

An international team of scientists, including two professors and three graduate students from UCLA, has detected and confirmed the faintest early-universe galaxy ever. Using the W. M. Keck Observatory on the summit on M...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence for a vast collection of young galaxies 12 billion light years away. The newly discovered "proto-cluster" of galaxies, observed when the universe was only 1.7 billion years old (12% of...

Strange plumes in Mars' atmosphere first recorded by amateur astronomers four year ago have planetary scientists still scratching their heads. But new data from European Space Agency's orbiting Mars Express points to cor...

For over 25 years, one of the hardest working bands in the music business have traveled the globe to perform epic three-hour performances for their fans. On Halloween in 2015, they took them to the 'galaxy far, far, away...