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The colossal black hole at the center of the Milky Way -- called "Sagittarius A*" because it is found in the constellation Sagittarius -- has a gravitational mass that is four million times greater than our own sun. Yet ...

Regular readers know how big a scifi nerd I am. Star Trek, Doctor Who, 12 Monkeys... I love science fiction that tells big, grand stories. Right now, one of the best scifi shows on TV --heck, one of the best shows on TV-...

As engines are fired, software written and hardware welded to prepare for the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), engineers are already running tests in supersonic wind tunnels to develop the next, more pow...

Thomas Pesquet: The sandy dunes of Namibia seem to flow straight into the Atlantic ocean ....

This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is one of the highest-resolution views ever taken of Saturn's moon Pandora. Pandora (52 miles, 84 kilometers) across orbits Saturn just outside the narrow F ring.

If the solar system, as it orbited the center of the galaxy, were to move through the Milky Way's dark-matter disk, Lisa Randall (Warped Passages, Knocking on Heaven's Door), one of our most influential theoretical physi...

Christmas week is here, and the night sky obliges by presenting a beautiful display of celestial sights, perfectly timed to coincide with the holiday.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows no signs of damage after an "anomaly" during a vibration test earlier in the month, the agency announced Dec. 23. SpaceNews.com

The sheer observing power of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is rarely better illustrated than in an image such as this....

Sentinel-2A takes us over northwestern China near the border with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in this false-colour image....

Just in time for the holidays, a team of astronomers have released Hubble images that show a bright and festive pair of nebulas The post Hubble Spots Festive Nebula in Neighboring Galaxy appeared first on Universe Today.

It's Christmastime, space fans! To get into the holiday spirit with a space twist, we recommend checking out NORAD's Track Santa website or sending a cosmos-themed holiday card from the European Space Agency.

A feature-length compilation of the amazing adventures of Rosetta and Philae

The idea of colonization of Saturn's moons is attractive and presents many benefits, even if it is a challenging and distant prospect. The post How Do We Colonize Saturn’s Moons? appeared first on Universe Today.

By now you've probably seen those soulful faces staring out at you from the ads for the new movie Passengers: Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt playing Aurora Land and Jim Preston, two would-be interplanetary colonists w...

Using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other facilities, an international team of scientists has found the first gamma-ray binary in another galaxy and the most luminous one ever seen. The dual-star s...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Mathew Anderson is the author of “”Our Cosmic Story”” available on Amazon in January, 2017. He wrote “”Our Cosmic Story”” in interest from his years studying scie...

Stellar Astrophysics Centre at the University of Aarhus: You can find the video here, and the previous ones at the YouTube site Astronomi Aarhus Universitet. A merry Christmas from all of us in Aarhus.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

(Phys.org)--A team of astronomers led by Aneurin Evans of the Keele University, U.K., has observed the classical nova V339 Delphini (V339 Del for short) and spotted some peculiar changes in its dust shell. These observat...

What cosmic light could have guided the Three Wise Men to the newborn baby Jesus 2,000 years ago? Learn about all the theories in a free webcast today (Dec. 23) by the Slooh Community Observatory.

The U.S. Air Force added $8.8 million to Boeing's Wideband Global Satcom contract to help operate and maintain the constellation through 2017, according to contracting information the Department of Defense released Dec. ...