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Are you considering throwing a star party? Here are some tips and tricks to host a great gathering of stargazers.

After several short bursts of air into the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) over the course of many hours on May 28, 2016, it was fully expanded on the International Space Station.

Mars and Earth got unusually cozy Monday night, drawing closer to each other than they have in more than a decade.

It is a galactic challenge, to be sure, but Gwendolyn Eadie is getting closer to an accurate answer to a question that has defined her early career in astrophysics: what is the mass of the Milky Way?

The "Canarias Einstein ring" shown below is one of the most symmetrical discovered until now and is almost circular, showing that the two galaxies are almost perfectly aligned, with a separation on the sky of only 0.2 ar...

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Next weekend's launch of the Delta-4 Heavy has been postponed. The launch, which was to take place at Cape Canaveral, has been delayed due to unspecified payload issues. The launch is for the National Reconnaissance Offi...

"These planets are unlike anything in our solar system. They have endless oceans," said lead author Lisa Kaltenegger of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the CfA. "There may be life there, but could it be techno...

"Nothing in biology makes sense", wrote the evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky, "except in the light of evolution". If we want to assess whether it is likely that technological civilizations have evolved on ali...

The second U.S. international airport to be named for a NASA astronaut honors the first American to orbit the Earth. Ohio lawmakers on May 25 unanimously voted to rename the Port Columbus International Airport for John G...

The waters surrounding Antarctica may be one of the last places to experience human-driven climate change. New research from the University of Washington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finds that ocean cur...

Here in the Boulder, Colorado area, we get odd weather. In the summer the wind blows mostly from the west, and in the afternoon moisture-laden clouds stream over the Rocky Mountains and toward the plains to our east. Mor...

The constellation of Boötes (the Herdsman) is home to double star Epsilon Boötis - also known as Izar. Through binoculars the color contrast of the stars can be amazing.

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Around four decades ago, astronomers became aware that our galaxy, the Milky Way, was moving through space at a much faster rate than expected.

It's not a stretch to say the Copernican revolution fundamentally changed the way we think about our place in the universe. In antiquity people believed the Earth was the centre of the solar system and the universe, wher...

The New Horizons mission, which its conducted its historic flyby on July 14th, 2015, has yielded a wealth of scientific data about Pluto. This has included discoveries about Pluto's size, its mountainous regions, its flo...

Michelle Kunimoto's bachelor degree in physics and astronomy sent her on a journey out of this world--and led to the discovery of four new worlds beyond our solar system.

A newly released photo mosaic and video show Pluto's towering water-ice mountains, nitrogen glaciers and other exotic features in unprecedented detail.

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING):

In space history, only a handful of Russian and American travelers have experienced single-person orbital flight. That "you're on your own" encapsulated feeling is palpable as you face your instrument panel.

This young star is breaking out. Like a hatchling pecking through its shell, this particular stellar newborn is forcing its way out into the surrounding Universe.