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Two papers published by an assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside and several collaborators explain why the universe has enough energy to become transparent.

Space exploration is becoming a lucrative domain for private aerospace companies (aka. the NewSpace industry). With opportunities for launch and resupply services growing, costs dwindling, and the cancellation of the Spa...

The majestic auroras have captivated humans for thousands of years, but their nature--the fact that the lights are electromagnetic and respond to solar activity--was only realized in the last 150 years. Thanks to coordin...

Our mascot is the tortoise. We paint one on our vehicles after each successful flight. Our motto is "Gradatim Ferociter" - step by step, ferociously....

This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog.

Silent for billions of years, the moon rocks brought back by the Apollo Mission, have finally found a voice, and they have quite a tale to tell. Measurements of an element in Earth and Moon rocks have just disproved the....

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos unveiled plans Monday for a massive rocket called New Glenn designed to launch people to space and propel satellites into orbit, raising the ante in the US commercial space industry.

This morning (Sept. 12), Jeff Bezos announced a new family of massive reusable rockets in development for his company Blue Origin. The rockets will be designed to launch both satellites and humans.

For decades astronomers have study what happened to thousands of dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way that were predicted by simulations, but not observable. New supercomputer simulations suggest that they were destroyed ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has been able to study stellar evolution in real time. Over a period of 30 years dramatic increases in the temperature of the star SAO 244567 have be...

One of the most remarkable successes of astrophysics in the last century was its discovery that the age of the universe as measured by its oldest stars was about the same as the age estimated in an entirely different way...

For its seventh launch of the year, and seventh Vega mission since the light launcher began operations at the Guiana Space Center French Guiana, in 2012, Arianespace will orbit the PerúSAT-1 satellite as part of a turnk...

NASA will provide three virtual updates on two planned Asteroid Redirect Missions (ARM) Wednesday, Sept. 14 at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. NASA Television will provide coverage at 11 ...

Several European Space Agency (ESA) missions currently underway and in the future have and will give humanity a better understanding of our Universe. Missions include: Planck, Euclid, Gaia, Herschel, Mars Express and mor...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Quasars are supermassive black holes that sit at the center of enormous galaxies, accreting matter. They shine so brightly that they are often referred to as beacons and are among the most-distant objects in the universe...

You go out and look at the stars year after year and never see any of them get up and walk away from their constellations. Take a time machine back to the days of Plato and Socrates and only careful viewing would reveal ...

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"The formation and evolution of the earliest light sources and structures in the universe is one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy," said Carnegie Institute's Eduardo Bañados. "Very bright quasars such as the 63 di...

Today: EXpedite PRocessing of Experiments to Space Station (EXPRESS) Rack 7 (ER7) and ER8 Locker Relocations: Following the recovery of ER7 capability yesterday, the crew relocated the two Space Automated Bioproduct Labo...

Space Science Image of the Week: Explore the sky with this new visualisation using data from ESA's Hipparcos mission