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During the time after its departure, the spacecraft deployed four cubesats and performed a fire experiment. SpaceNews.com

NASA will hold a media briefing at 11 a.m. EDT Monday, June 19, to announce the latest planet candidate results from the agency's exoplanet-hunting Kepler mission. The briefing, taking place during the Kepler Science Con...

A team of astrophysicists from UZH has simulated the formation of the entire Universe, producing a catalog that will help unlock the secrets of the "Dark Universe". The post These 25 Billion Galaxies are Definitely Livin...

"We found a world that we had never imagined, said Henry Markram, director of Blue Brain Project. "There are tens of millions of these objects even in a small speck of the brain, up through seven dimensions. In some netw...

This article originally appeared in the June 6, 2017 issue of SpaceNews magazine. President Trump is laser focused on creating jobs and fixing the economy. However, in a time of anemic economic growth, the scourge of wea...

Here's a guide to the major astronomical events of the next year, as well as space launches and milestones for spacecrafts already in travel.

Not only did the famed astrophysicist become the first American to receive the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication, but he's also getting his very own beer, courtesy of the Asheville Brewing Co. in North Caro...

The Cassini spacecraft has made its eighth dive between Saturn and its rings, documenting the planetary system up close as it prepares for its Grand Finale plunge into the gas giant on Sept. 15.

A small NASA-funded company is slimming down nuclear fusion reactors for space science --

Today - Rodent Research-5 (RR-5) Systemic Therapy of NELL-1 for Osteoporosis: Two crewmembers performed the first injection of the RR-5 mice in the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG)....

A new study led by Miguel Pereira Santaella, Research Associate at the Oxford University Department of Physics used the ALMA Observatory and detected the (670 μm) water transition in space, for the first time. The molec...

Stars form from gas and dust floating in interstellar space. But, astronomers do not yet fully understand how it is possible to form the massive stars seen in space. One key issue is gas rotation. The parent cloud rotate...

A space experiment is set to take the baking tip "let your bread rise" to the extreme.

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across. We live on one of its minor spurs, the Orion Arm.

Alien Decryption Challenge --"Could the Citizens of Earth Decode a Message from a Civilization a Billion Years Older than Ours?" (AUDIO/Week's Most Popular) After the Big Bang --"Is Inflation the Greatest Mystery of Cosm...

Spanning 14 m from the spacecraft body, this impressive solar wing is one of two attached to ESA's BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module.

Miguel Pereira Santaella, Research Associate at the Oxford University Department of Physics, discusses his newly published work observing never before seen water transitions in space. He breaks down how the discovery wil...

Scientists recently discovered the hottest planet ever found - with a surface temperature greater than some stars. As the hunt for planets outside our own solar system continues, we have discovered many other worlds with...

A glittering jackpot of ultrabright galaxies bursting with star formation has been revealed in a series of stunning images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Gas giant planet HD 27894 b appears to have at least two massive companions, according to a new study published June 1 in a paper on arXiv.org. One of the newly discovered alien worlds is a Saturn-mass planet, while the ...

Astronomers could help asteroid miners identify the most promising targets, potentially slashing the cost of off-Earth resource extraction, Harvard astrophysicist Martin Elvis said.

NASA scientists have found a wide diversity of minerals in the initial samples of rocks collected by the Curiosity rover in the lowermost layers of Mount Sharp on Mars, suggesting that conditions changed in the water env...