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Scientists and engineers had many challenges in designing the components of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and then had to custom design and build ways to test it.

Officials warned that the UK's impending exit from the EU would require the country to negotiate a new deal to remain part of Galileo. SpaceNews.com

(Phys.org)--An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new giant radio galaxy (GRG) associated with the galaxy triplet known as UGC 9555. The newly discovered galaxy turns out to be one of the larges...

NASA has selected two proposals for the development of oxygen recovery technologies that could help astronauts breathe a little easier on deep space, long-duration missions. The agency will invest as much as $2 million a...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

An international team of astronomers released the largest-ever compilation of exoplanet-detecting observations made using a technique called the radial velocity method. They demonstrated how these observations can be use...

"Fifteen years ago, when you talked about the multiverse, the attitude of many physicists was just ridicule," says Alexander Vilenkin, professor of physics and director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University. ...

"Fifteen years ago, when you talked about the multiverse, the attitude of many physicists was just ridicule," says Alexander Vilenkin, professor of physics and director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University. ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: The race is on to build the most sensitive U.S.-based experiment designed to directly detect dark matter particles. Department of Energy officials have formally approved a key const...

Dunlap Institute: A composite image shows the Gaia spacecraft against a backdrop of the Milky Way Galaxy. Image: ESA/ATG medialab; background image: ESO/S. Brunier [Toronto] Using a novel method and data from the Gaia sp...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, a supergiant red star ended its life in a spectacular explosion known as a supernova.

The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) project has begun final testing on a new satellite that will replenish NASA's Space Network. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Can...

"I believe in a hundred years we are going to be repairing the damage we are doing now," says astrobiologist and "Earth In Human Hands" author David Grinspoon in regards to Earth's climate.

The European Space Agency is planning a 2022 mission to explore three of Jupiter's moons.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has been capturing imagery of the Sun since its launch in Feb. 2010. Since then It has watched a large part of the 11-year solar cycle.

Here's a sneak peek at Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush and newcomer Johnny Flynn as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein, in National Geographic's global event series GENIUS, coming in April. From Exec...

NASA has reopened its Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans as recovery work continues in the wake of a powerful tornado that damaged the manufacturing center last week.

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING):

Space Science Image of the Week: Remembering Rosetta's close comet flyby on Valentine's Day 2015

Any nation that hopes to have a space program needs to be able to keep an eye on its orbiting assets at all times. This means that Australia has become a key link in the global chain of ground-based tracking stations.

Comet hunters still have a chance to see comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková in the next few days using binoculars or a telescope. It's the first of a trio of comets that will--between now and the end of 2018--pass clos...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lit its engines in a prelaunch test, marking the return to use for NASA's Pad 39A, where astronauts lifted off for the moon and crews later leapt into Earth orbit on space shuttles from Kennedy S...