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(Phys.org)--European astronomers report the detection of a new extrasolar world several times more massive than Earth. The newly found exoplanet, classified as a so-called "super-Earth," is circling a nearby star designa...

SpaceX is targeting a June 1 blastoff for the firms next cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA following today's (May 28) successful test firing of the Falcon 9 booster's main engines o...

In the hopes of telling us more about Near-Earth Objects, the NELIOTA project has begun to study bright flashes on the Moon, which are generated by meteors striking the surface. The post There’s a Hard Rock Rain on the...

The Martian has already happened, just not with a human --

The wobbles and variations in the orbit of the Earth as it goes round the Sun have caused many periods of rapid and violent climate change. About two million years ago, something extraordinary started happening in the Gr...

Space Science Image of the Week: Find out what this stormtrooper has to do with space science at ESA, and what we're doing at a sci-fi convention this weekend

President John F. Kennedy was the American president who aimed an entire country at the moon, and for that NASA will always celebrate.

Amazing images of solar eclipses captured around the world.

On Aug. 21, a total solar eclipse will cross the U.S. from Oregon to South Carolina. Ninety-eight years ago today, another total solar eclipse changed the world by helping to confirm Einstein's theory of general relativi...