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The Giant Magellan Telescope is being built in Chile by a consortium of nations. It should see first light in the early 2020s. The post Rise of the Super Telescopes: The Giant Magellan Telescope appeared first on Univers...

While the Great Wall of China is not readily visible from space (we debunked that popular myth here) there are several other human-built structures that actually can be seen from space. And that list is growing, thanks t...

A trip past the sun may have selectively altered the production of one form of water in a comet - an effect not seen by astronomers before, a new NASA study suggests.

The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope is an 'almost telescope' that never got built. But the design and thinking behind it have helped shaped the future. The post Rise of the Super Telescopes: The Overwhelmingly Large Teles...

"The discovery of these supermassive black holes, which launch jets that emit more energy in one second than our sun will produce in its entire lifetime, was the culmination of a yearlong research project," said astrophy...

Global satellite operator Intelsat, following a conditional $1.7 billion investment from Japanese conglomerate Softbank, has reached an agreement with OneWeb to form one company offering telecommunications services from ...

Although still mysterious, these quirky extragalactic signals are now poised to transform mainstream research --

The Expedition 50 crew began activating new science experiments delivered last week aboard the SpaceX Dragon. The various life science studies will study bones and muscles, stem cells, botany and protein crystals....

Students from Hartsfield Elementary 4-H Club of the Houston Independent School District in Texas will speak with a NASA astronaut currently living and working aboard the International Space Station.

Astronomers have struggled to assemble a complete theory of the origin of planets that explains how the initial dust develops into planetary systems. A French-UK-Australian team now think they have the answer, with their...

President Donald Trump's vision for America includes landing astronauts on the moon or Mars by the mid-2020s, if his first address to Congress is any guide.

Ready for the "Great American Eclipse?" We're now less than six months out from the long-anticipated total solar eclipse spanning the contiguous United States from coast-to-coast. And while folks are scrambling to make l...

Today's Earth is a dynamic planet with an outer layer composed of giant plates that grind together, sliding past or dipping beneath one another, giving rise to earthquakes and volcanoes. Others separate at undersea mount...

The two companies would merge in a stock transaction under the agreement. SpaceNews.com

"What in the living fuck happened at the Oscars?" A shocked Trevor Noah posed this question to Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr., who provided a simple but convincing explanation. "Peak blackness," Wood explained, a ...

Solar Orbiter is a planned European Space Agency (ESA) mission that will study the surface of the sun. NASA is providing a launch vehicle.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Astronomers have found evidence of shattered asteroids orbiting a pair of stars, a strong new sign that rocky worlds with twin suns like Luke Skywalker's fictional home world Tatooine are possible.

Matter and antimatter should look the same. For the first time, physicists have experimental evidence that they don't.

Earth had a hard outer shell before its tectonic plates.

The newly refurbished cameras of the H.E.S.S. gamma-ray telescopes in Namibia have detected their first signals from a cosmic particle accelerator: The new cameras recorded Markarian 421 as their first target, a well-kno...

These images of the sun were captured at the same time on January 29, 2017 by the six channels on the Solar Ultraviolet Imager or SUVI instrument aboard NOAA's GOES-16 satellite. They show a large coronal hole in the sun...