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China launched its second space lab, Tiangong-2, on Thursday, paving the way for a permanent space station that the country plans to build around 2022. In a space science first, a human brain-computer interaction test sy...

The Biomolecule Sequencer experiment aboard the International Space Station tests a DNA sequencing device called MinION. It is a commercially available device that works well on Earth but was never tested in space.

What is the origin of the large heart-shaped nitrogen glacier revealed in 2015 on Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft? Two researchers from the Laboratoire de météorologie dynamique (CNRS/École polytechnique/UPMC/ENS...

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

New images capture best-yet view of cometary disintegration --

Roscosmos has delayed the next scheduled crew launch to the International Space Station for technical reasons, according to a very brief report from the Russian space agency.

The Expedition 49 trio is looking at plant growth today after the successful deployment of eight nanosatellites Thursday. The crew also inspected a treadmill and trained to care for a sick or injured crew member....

This is a video by the European Southern Observatory that you'll not want want to miss. The ESO team discusses the result of the quest to find a planet around the closest star to the Solar System. The Pale Red...

You might think this question would be easy to answer. If it's big, it should be pretty straightforward to find, right? Yeah, well, the Universe isn't always that simple. First, what's a galaxy? Basically, it's a collect...

The dusty disk surrounding the star TW Hydrae exhibits circular features that may signal the formation of protoplanets. LMU astrophysicist Barbara Ercolano argues, however, that the innermost actually points to the impen...

An international team of astronomers has measured the magnetic field in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole. A bright and compact feature of only 2 light days in size was directly observed by a world-wide ensemble ...

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The Harvest Moon and minor penumbral lunar eclipse of Sept. 16 thrilled skywatchers in its visibility zone. The moon was in dazzling form, despite the relatively minor lunar eclipse that accompanied it.

Skywatchers captured spectacular photos of the Harvest Moon, which coincided with a subtle lunar eclipse for viewers in some parts of the world.

A bipartisan NASA authorization bill would require NASA to evaluate alternatives to its Asteroid Redirect Mission and develop a plan to transition activities currently performed on the International Space Station to comm...

A lone source shines out brightly from the dark expanse of deep space, glowing softly against a picturesque backdrop of distant stars and colorful galaxies.

As we push deeper into space, artists and planetary scientists often make these strange new worlds familiar to us, influencing our imagination and boosting our enthusiasm to explore.

Many known exoplanets orbit close to their host star, within one-tenth of an astronomical unit (one AU is the average distance of the Earth from the Sun). Since their orbital periods are therefore very short and their gr...

"StarTalk" with Neil deGrasse Tyson is back on TV tonight (Sept. 19) to kick off a third season of hilarious and intelligent discussions about science and pop culture.

China's first-ever space lab will die a fiery death in Earth's atmosphere toward the end of next year, Chinese officials said.

The solar wind's evolution is finally coming to light, thanks to new analysis of observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO).