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Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula -- a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape....

Our love of black holes continues to grow as our knowledge of these celestial bodies expands. The latest news is the discovery of a rare "middleweight" black hole, a relative newcomer to the black hole family.

On Feb. 9, 2017, NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, known as MMS, began a three-month long journey into a new orbit....

In a significant move towards further expansion of the International Space Station's (ISS) burgeoning research and commercial space economy capabilities, NASA has approved the development of the first privately developed...

STPSat-6 will carry a payload to detect nuclear blasts. SpaceNews.com

Observers across parts of North America can watch a Full Snow Moon penumbral lunar eclipse on February 10, 2017 --

An email claimed that the White House had been recommended to consider a competition between OldSpace and NewSpace. Others say that's not the case. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA has made progress developing electronics that can withstand Venus' extreme surface environment. The post Time To Build A Venus Rover appeared first on Universe Today.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

We all love the ‘selfies’ the Curiosity rover takes of itself sitting on Mars. We love them because it’s so amazing to see a human-made object on another world, and these images give us hope that one day we might h...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg) Dave Dickinson ( / @astroguyz) Their stories this week: Comet 45P Flies Past Earth...

Take a gander at this high resolution view of Europa and learn of NASA's plans to look for life there. The post This Is The Highest Resolution Image Of Europa We Have … For Now appeared first on Universe Today.

The Expedition 50 crew trained today for the robotic capture of the SpaceX Dragon and studied how the brain adapts to living in space. Three crew members also conducted an emergency drill aboard the International Space S...

Astronomers have established a new timeline for the solar system that is helping to pinpoint when gas giants Jupiter and Saturn likely formed.

A false color image of the region was processed using the near-infrared channel of ESA's Sentinel-2A satellite. It shows rare snow cover on the island over the mountainous regions on Jan. 8, 2017, including active volcan...

The UK Space Agency said the grants are worth up to £10 million ($12.5 million) but launches must begin by 2020. SpaceNews.com

Part of the Italian island of Sicily is pictured in this false-colour image from the Sentinel-2A satellite....

BepiColombo is a planned European-Japanese mission to Mercury. It is set to launch in 2018.

In a significant move towards further expansion of the International Space Station's (ISS) burgeoning research and commercial space economy capabilities, NASA has approved the development of the first privately developed...

Technological advances,plus a push to sendsignals to aliens, not just listen for them—means we need to think more about what happens whenwe make a discovery --

A NASA spacecraft begins its search Thursday for an enigmatic class of near-Earth objects known as Earth-Trojan asteroids. OSIRIS-REx, currently on a two-year outbound journey to the asteroid Bennu, will spend almost two...