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A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and evidence from meteorites to show that a low-mass supernova triggered the formation of our solar...

The advent of new high-throughput systems, growing acceptance of commercial input for space situational awareness, and a surprise U.S. election outcome are all pieces of the shifting industry landscape at a time when the...

A new study released by the Radiological Society of North America has determined why astronauts who take part in long-duration missions experience problems with their eyesight. The post Culprit Found In Blurry Astronaut ...

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The Mars Camera, CaSSIS on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured its first high resolution images of the Red Planet last week. The Bernese camera worked almost perfectly and has provided spectacular views of the surface...

Today: Device for the study of Critical Liquids and Crystallization High Temperature Insert-Reflight (DECLIC-HTI-R) Installation - Today the crew installed and connected the Electronics Locker and Experiment locker cable...

The creation of a specialised IAU Working Group, the Working Group on Star Names (WGSN), was approved by the IAU Executive Committee in May 2016 to formalise star names that have been used colloquially for centuries. WGS...

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Thomas Pesquet prepares for muscle measurements in space

A new 1-minute video provides an up-close view of the Nov. 17 launch of four Galileo navigation satellites, which lifted off atop an Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.

It has been a mystery, how galaxies so faint - containing up to 1000 times fewer stars than the Milky Way could still be just as large. Over the last year, researchers have observed some very faint, diffuse galaxies. The...

Computer scientist Margaret H. Hamilton helped write the software for the Apollo spacecraft. For her work, she was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.

The first images from the European Space Agency mission's Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) have been stitched together to show parts of Mars' Arisa Chasmata, Noctis Labyrinthus and more.

HM King Philippe of the Belgians honoured ESA's technical heart with a royal visit on Tuesday 29 November

ESA's new ExoMars orbiter has tested its suite of instruments in orbit for the first time, hinting at a great potential for future observations.

Of the more than 2,331 confirmed planets and 4,696 planetary candidates the Kepler Mission has identified to date, only one system resembles our own with terrestrial planets near the star and giant planets set at a dista...

(Phys.org)--Astronomers have detected a so-called "hot Jupiter" exoplanet transiting a distant sun-like star located some 1,800 light years from the Earth. The newly discovered planet, designated EPIC 220504338b, was fou...

Mars has long been a target of human curiosity. A blood-red eye in the sky, hanging, baleful. Our understanding of it has changed over time; it was thought to be somewhat Earth-like for a while, but then we sent space pr...

The Millennium Tower is a luxury skyscraper in San Francisco. It has been sinking and tilting since it's construction 8 years ago. In fact, the 58 story building has sunk 8 inches, and tilted at least 2 inches. San Franc...

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands has found evidence of water on the moon during the time it was formed. In their paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the t...

The European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) has released Space Policies, Issues and Trends in 2015-16 report, its annual report. The report provides their continued assessment of the space economy and global space policie...