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A team from Calvin College, Michigan have discovered a binary pair of stars that will eventually collide and explode in 2022, producing a Red Nova that we will be able to see from Earth. The post Exploding Binary Stars W...

The walk took six and a half hours to swap out old batteries used by the station's power system. SpaceNews.com

Spanish rocket startup PLD Space said Jan. 9 that it has raised the money it needs to continue development of its Arion 1 reusable suborbital launch vehicle thanks to a $7.1 million investment round lead by satellite gro...

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) announced today, on behalf of the Heineman Foundation for Research, Educational, Charitable, and Scientific Purposes, that California as...

From Giodarno Bruno's heretical vision of Infinite Worlds in 1593 until 1992, our notion of star-orbiting planets beyond Earth's solar system only existed in science fiction. That's when astronomers Alex Wolszczan and Da...

From Giodarno Bruno's heretical vision of Infinite Worlds in 1593 until 1992, our notion of star-orbiting planets beyond Earth's solar system only existed in science fiction. That's when astronomers Alex Wolszczan and Da...

Astronomers confirmed the first planets beyond our solar system a quarter-century ago --

Earth's moon may be the product of many small moonlets that merged together after multiple objects as big as Mars collided with Earth, leaving disks of planetary debris orbiting the planet, a new study suggests.

Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson concluded their spacewalk at 1:55 p.m. EST....

ESO has signed an agreement with the Breakthrough Initiatives to adapt the Very Large Telescope instrumentation in Chile to conduct a search for planets in the nearby star system Alpha Centauri. Such planets could be the...

Breakthrough Initiatives has come to an agreement with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to upgrade instrumentation on their Very Large Telescope (VLT) to look for planets around the nearest star system.

20016 was a year of unprecedented achievement for China's ambitious space program: the country has launched a dark-matter seeking satellite and another orbiting satellite to test quantum communications, outlined plans to...

The Moon, our planet's constant companion for some 4.5 billion years, may have been forged by a rash of smaller bodies smashing into an embryonic Earth, researchers said Monday.

Asteroid 2017 AG13, that is estimated to be 50-111 feet across, flew about .5 lunar distance (LD) from Earth on January 9, 2017. Slooh astronomer Eric Edelman explains.

NASA Breaking News:

When I saw the image above, the hair on the back of my neck stood up. Recognize them? Those are the Earth and Moon, as seen from Mars. That image was taken by the phenomenal HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, seeking to assure astronomers concerned about the next administration, said that the transition process has gone as he expected.

The supermassive black hole candidate at the center of our Galaxy (associated with the radio source Sgr A*) is a prime candidate for studying the physical phenomena associated with accretion on to a supermassive black ho...

Galaxies evolve over billions of years in part through the activity of star formation and their supermassive nuclear black holes, and also by mergers with other galaxies. Some features of galaxies, in particular the stro...

Calvin College professor Larry Molnar and his students along with colleagues from Apache Point Observatory (Karen Kinemuchi) and the University of Wyoming (Henry Kobulnicky) are predicting a change to the night sky that ...

Astrophotographer Adam Gordon took this image of star trails from Anza Borrego Desert State Park on the night of September 30, 2016.