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Astronomers led by David Sobral and Jorryt Matthee, of the Universities of Lancaster in the UK and Leiden in the Netherlands have discovered giant halos around early Milky Way type galaxies, made of photons (elementary p...

The European Southern Observatory and Breakthrough Initiatives have come together for purpose of finding habitable planets beyond Earth. The post A “Breakthrough” to Search for Planets in Closest Star System to Earth...

An instrument designed to image the vast web of gas that connects galaxies in the universe has been shipped from Los Angeles to Hawaii, where it will be integrated into the W. M. Keck Observatory.

Rumors began circulating in December that two leaders in the small satellite Earth imaging field were on the brink of deal, when employees of Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Terra Bella began visiting the offices of San Francis...

Maritime satellite services and hardware provider KVH is kicking off an upgrade to mix high-throughput capacity from geostationary and low Earth orbit satellites into its network, CEO Martin Kits van Heyningen said Jan. ...

In roughly four billion years, the Milky Way will be no more.

Commander Shane Kimbrough is getting ready for his second spacewalk in a week to complete the upgrade of power systems on the International Space Station. He will be joined by Thomas Pesquet from the European Space Agenc...

The world-renowned physicist and cosmologist, Neil Turok takes a visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future. Every technology we rely on today was created by the human mind, seeking to understand the u...

Official discussions have begun about which major astronomy missions should receive funding in the 2020s.

The head of NASA's Earth science division says he does not expect major changes in his programs for the remainder of the fiscal year despite a change in administrations.

A convoy of massive tractors delivers supplies to Concordia research station in Antarctica, as seen in a satellite image captured from hundreds of miles above Earth.

"Twenty years ago, this would have been heretical; finding evidence of life 3.8 billion years ago was shocking," said Mark Harrison, co-author of the research and a professor of geochemistry at UCLA. "Life on Earth may h...

Now available is the January 11, 2017 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Ben Reed (NASA GSFC) who presented "NASA Satellite Servicing Evolution."...

The EU-U.S. 2nd Space Policy Conference will cover the following issues:...

The report indicated the "defective workmanship" in the assembly of the third-stage engine may have played a role in the failure. SpaceNews.com

"What's that bright light in the sky?" The planet Venus never fails to impress, and indeed makes even seasoned observers look twice at its unexpected brilliance. The third brightest natural object in the sky, Venus now r...

(Phys.org)--Space researchers James Vesper and Paul Mason with New Mexico State University have given a presentation at this year's American Astronomical Science meeting outlining the results of simulations they have bee...

(Phys.org)--Astronomers have detected a new "hot Jupiter" exoplanet orbiting a nearby T Tauri star known as TAP 26. The newly detected alien world, designated TAP 26 b, is about 66 percent more massive than Jupiter and i...

The multi-purpose satellite will deliver "TV broadcasting to multimedia applications, internet access and mobile or fixed services in a wide range of frequency bands," according to the European Space Agency (ESA).

The image above is as baffling as it is gorgeous. First, kudos go to my pal Rogelio Bernal Andreo, who took this magnificent shot. It shows the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest big spiral galaxy to our own, and in fact the ...

Operations image of the week: Sentinel-2 mission controllers begin the year with intensive training for the March launch

Some of us may be easing ourselves gently into the New Year, but for the team readying Sentinel-2B for liftoff on 7 March it's full steam ahead.