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Humankind has just been presented with the the precise position and brightness of 1,140,622,719 stars in the first data release from the European Space Agency mission (ESA). It is the "largest all-sky survey of celestial...

The first catalogue of more than a billion stars from ESA's Gaia satellite was published today - the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects to date.

Astronomers found signs of a growing planet around TW Hydra, a nearby young star, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Based on the distance from the central star and the distribution of tiny du...

In the coming decades, the world's largest space agencies all have some rather big plans. Between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), Roscosmos, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), or the China National Spa...

An experiment to explore the aftermath of cosmic dawn, when stars and galaxies first lit up the universe, has received nearly $10 million in funding from the National Science Foundation to expand its detector array in So...

Looking for food that could be harvested by astronauts far from Earth, researchers focused on spirulina, which has been harvested for food in South America and Africa for centuries. ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti a...

The competition between billionaire space entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos has reached a new level.

The first catalog of more than a billion stars from ESA's Gaia satellite was published today - the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects to date. On its way to assembling the most detailed 3-D map ever made of our....

A 30-ton meteor - believed to be the world's second largest - was discovered in northern Argentina, a news report said Monday.

New software, previewed last night (Sept. 12) at the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, steps through every kink and curl in the complicated process of getting NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to its faraw...

Mars Analogues for Space Exploration: The MASE team will be attending the EANA 16 meeting in Athens, Greece between 27-30 September 2016 and 6 MASE-related presentations will be given: Detecting biochemical evidence for ...

A team using the Hubble Space Telescope has imaged circumstellar disk structures (CDSs) around three stars similar to our Sun. The stars are all G-type solar analogs, and the disks themselves share similarities with our ...

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 coo...

China will launch its second space lab on Thursday, official media said Wednesday, as the Communist country works towards setting up its own space station, among several ambitious goals.

An experiment to explore the aftermath of cosmic dawn, when stars and galaxies first lit up the universe led by the University of California, Berkeley, called HERA, , the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array, 240 radio d...

Watch the replay videos of the EO Open Science 2016 conference held at ESA's ESRIN establishment in Italy 12-14 September

Britain will stay in the European Space Agency when it leaves the EU, but will have to renegotiate terms to continue participating in certain projects, the ESA said Wednesday.

Today: NanoRack Cubesat Deployer (NRCSD) #9 Install: After extending the JEM Airlock (JEMAL) slide table into the cabin, FE-5 installed the NRCSD #9 quad-deployer onto the Multi-Purpose Experiment Platform Small Fine Arm...

Virgin Galactic announced a contract for four launches of satellites for a planned communications constellation.

The first catalogue of more than a billion stars from ESA's Gaia satellite was published today - the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects to date.

Obviously, you've seen timelapse videos of the night sky because we share them here on Universe Today all the time. But you've probably not seen a video like this one before. This one isn't a timelapse, and you'll see th...

Three crew members headed to the International Space Station are scheduled to launch on Friday, Sept. 23. Live launch coverage will begin at 1:15 p.m. EDT on NASA Television and the agency's website.