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Comings and goings continue apace on the International Space Station! After living and working fruitfully for six months in space aboard the ISS, an international trio of astronauts and cosmonauts including NASA's Shane ...

A second Great Spot has been discovered on Jupiter by University of Leicester astronomers, rivaling the scale of the planet's famous Great Red Spot and created by the powerful energies exerted by the great planet's polar...

After training a network of telescopes stretching from Hawaii to Antarctica to Spain at the heart of our galaxy for five nights running, astronomers said Wednesday they may have snapped the first-ever picture of a black ...

Lockheed says the technology has cut down on production time by two-thirds, while Aerojet is already testing a 3-D printed thrust chamber. SpaceNews.com

The research grants provide funding for new studies of spacecraft propulsion, synthetic biology and more --

Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope: Researchers at the University of Waterloo have been able to capture the first composite image of a dark matter bridge that connects galaxies together. The scientists publish their work in ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have been able to capture the first composite image of a dark matter bridge that connects galaxies together....

"For decades, researchers have been predicting the existence of dark-matter filaments between galaxies that act like a web-like superstructure connecting galaxies together," said Mike Hudson, a professor of astronomy at ...

The moon no longer has a magnetic field, but NASA scientists are publishing new research that shows heat from crystallization of the lunar core may have driven its now-defunct magnetic field some 3 billion years ago....

With two suns in its sky, Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine in "Star Wars" looks like a parched, sandy desert world. In real life, thanks to observatories such as NASA's Kepler space telescope, we know that two-star ...

Many young stars, as well as more middle-aged stars like our sun, have "debris disks"--like the Oort Cloud in our own solar system--that are believed to be remnants of the system's formation....

A Russian cosmonaut who has returned to Earth after a mission on the International Space Station said on Wednesday he had taken a relic of a Russian Orthodox saint with him.

The motion of 2 million stars over the course of 5 million years into the future is depicted in this new animation from the European Space Agency. Data from their Gaia Mission was used to create it.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have revealed extraordinary details about a recently discovered far-flung member of our solar system, the planetary body 2014 UZ224, more informa...

Technology image of the week: Laser testing at ESA

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has awoken from 'hibernation' - and it's ready to flip the switch and hunt for new dimensions, pushing the boundaries of our knowledge of particle physics. During the past winter, the LHC ...

In just explaining the experiments conducted on the International Space Station (ISS) and his daily routine during the European Space Agency's 'Proxima' mission, astronaut Thomas Pesquet reveals why the ISS is such a val...

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By examining the atomic carbon line from two young star systems--49 Ceti and Beta Pictoris--researchers had found atomic carbon in the disk, the first time this observation has been made at sub-millimeter wavelength, hin...

NASA will discuss new results about ocean worlds in our solar system from the agency's Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope during a news briefing 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, April 13. The event, to be held at t...

The spacecraft, also known as ChinaSat-16, will test Ka-band communications and other spacecraft technologies. SpaceNews.com

NASA astronaut Jack Fischer is poised for a journey of exploration and research on the International Space Station. Extensive coverage of upcoming prelaunch activities, launch and arrival will air on NASA Television and ...