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Binary stars are common throughout the galaxy, as it has been estimated about half the stars in our sky consist of two stars orbiting each other. Therefore, it's also thought that about half of all exoplanet host stars a...

The UPSat team of engineers is proud to announce the delivery of the first completely open source software and hardware satellite....

Why the universe is dominated by matter today, instead of being comprised of equal parts matter and antimatter, is one of the most intriguing questions in all of science....

An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has explored the same distant corner of the universe first revealed in the iconic image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (H...

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International teams of astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to explore the distant corner of the Universe first revealed in the iconic images of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF)...

Israel's latest spy satellite began transmitting pictures on Thursday, the defence ministry said, overcoming initial hiccups on its launch nine days ago.

The lone American in orbit will end up voting for president from the International Space Station, if her homecoming is delayed.

Ancient human migrations out of Africa may have been driven by wobbles in Earth's orbit and tilt that led to dramatic swings in climate, a new study finds.

Two's company, but three might not always be a crowd -- at least in space. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and a trick of nature, have confirmed the existence of a planet orbiting two stars in the system...

"Whatever we find out, that is what nature chose," Kyle Cranmer, a physics professor at New York University, told Brian Resnick at VOX. "It's a good attitude to have when your field yields great disappointments." For mos...

The United States and Russia are working to get a pair of cargo ships ready for a mid-October launch schedule to the International Space Station. While the new shipments are being processed, the Expedition 49 crew conduc...

In a record-breaking maneuver, the NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission gathered data on magnetic reconnection. The spacecrafts flew very close to each another as the 4-sided pyramid formation was only six mile...

A crisp view of Saturn's rings and one of its tiny moons makes big waves.

Two's company, but three might not always be a crowd -- at least in space.

The House of Representatives passed a commercial space bill unanimously while the House Science Committee approved a bill addressing astronaut health issues Sept. 21.

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...

When two stars line up in the night sky, the foreground star brightens the light from the background star and it acts like a magnifying glass through a telescope. This technique is used to discover planets and stars and ...

Europa and speculation of aliens go hand-in-hand, but NASA is keen to point out that Monday's icy moon announcement won't include the "a" word.

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Looking out into the night sky, we see a clumpy universe: planets orbit stars in solar systems and stars are grouped into galaxies, which in turn form enormous galaxy clusters. But cosmologists assume this effect is only...

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