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Our week through the lens: 21-25 November 2016

We have slim chance, suggests the British physicist Stephen Wolfram, of distinguishing an extraterrestrial artifact from a natural celestial object. According Wolfram, intelligent life is inevitable. But there is a hitch...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Dean Regas has been the Astronomer for the Cincinnati Observatory since 2000. He is the co-host of Star Gazers (airing on PBS stations around the world), a Contributing Editor to...

Saturn's largest moon might be the only place beyond Earthwhere humans could live --

Algol, the Demon Star, is right overhead in the Northern Hemisphere. Take a look up at the sky and see if you can catch this "prankster" winking.

The Sentinel-1 satellites have shown that the Millennium Tower skyscraper in the centre of San Francisco is sinking by a few centimetres a year. Studying the city is helping scientists to improve the monitoring of urban ...

A principal in a venture capital fund whose investments include SpaceX has joined President-elect Donald Trump's transition team for the Department of Defense. SpaceNews.com

Investigators have made progress into determining the cause of the Schiaparelli accident, which appears to be due to a temporary error with one of the on-board instruments. The post Schiaparelli’s One Second Of Terror ...

Barely a month after its expensive test lander crashed into Mars, the European Space Agency asked member nations Friday to cough up an extra 400 million euros ($425 million) to complete the ExoMars exploration of the Red...

Sentinel-3A captured part of Japan on 12 May in this false-colour image. Sitting on a volcanic zone in the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan is prone to earthquakes - like the one felt earlier this week. In 2011 the Tōhoku...

On Mar. 8, 2016, Earth lapped Jupiter in their race around the Sun. Earth orbits closer to the Sun than Jupiter, and so moves much more rapidly. Like a car on the inside track passing one on the outside, this meant that ...

This image of M45, or the Pleiades star cluster, was taken by Ron Brecher in October 2016.

Annalea Beattie talks about the science work she and her fellow Mars 160 crewmembers are performing in the Utah desert.

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The six Expedition 50 crew members celebrate Thanksgiving in space, Nov. 24, 2016, with rehydrated turkey, stuffing, potatoes and vegetables.

Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-3 image of Japan, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme

(Imperial College London) Scientists behind a theory that the speed of light is variable -- and not constant as Einstein suggested -- have made a prediction that could be tested.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The fire and fury of the mighty Atlas V got the gorgeous NASA/NOAA GOES-R weather observatory to geostationary orbit just days ago - as a 'Thanksgiving' present to all the people of Earth throu...