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The world's largest radio telescope began searching for signals from stars and galaxies and, perhaps, extraterrestrial life Sunday in a project demonstrating China's rising ambitions in space and its pursuit of internati...

Little red stars pose big questions in the search for intelligent life --

"First, perhaps, it might be best to understand why anyone would want to land on Europa at all. Europa - the second of Jupiter's four large satellites - is clearly a special place," says Caltech's Mike Brown, the Richard...

Astronomers have found signs of a growing planet around TW Hydra, a nearby young star, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)....

Singer-songwriter Grace Potter debuted an inspiring new space-themed music video highlighting the accomplishments of past, present and future women of NASA.

The breakthrough relies on 'spooky' quantum-physics phenomenon of entanglement, dubbed by Albert Einstein as "spooky action at a distance." Until recently, the idea of quantum radar had remained largely confined to scien...

Our beyond magnificent Curiosity rover has just finished her latest drilling campaign - at the target called "Quela" - into the simply unfathomable alien landscapes she is currently exploring at the "Murray Buttes" regio...

Stars are beautiful, wondrous things. Much like planets, planetoids and other stellar bodies, they come in many sizes, shapes, and even colors. And over the course of many centuries, astronomers have come to discern seve...