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To say NASA's new astronauts are happy to be selected would be an understatement. "I do not think I ever smiled that big in my life," said Zena Cardman, who was one of the 12 new astronaut candidates NASA announced on Ju...

The first artist to paint a galaxy was Vincent Van Gogh's depiction of Andromeda in his iconic Starry Night. Today, while astronomers have identified over 1000 planets around other stars, they're all too small and distan...

The first artist to paint a galaxy was Vincent Van Gogh's depiction of Andromeda in his iconic Starry Night. Today, while astronomers have identified over 1000 planets around other stars, they're all too small and distan...

A dozen candidates rose to the top of the record-breaking number of applications to be part of this newest class of astronauts-to-be.

On the same day he returned to Earth from the space station, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet also landed on four new stamps. La Poste, France's postal service, timed its new "Retour Sur Terre" ("Return to Earth") set wit...

How do scientists "weigh" the mass of a gaseous sphere light-years away?

Astronomers have discovered an important building block for life in the disk of dust and gas surrounding infant sun-like stars.

NASA introduced the twelve members of its newest astronaut class, astronomers discovered a planet hotter than some stars, and SpaceX landed a contract to launch a secret military spaceplane. Here are our favorite space s...