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Significant eclipses throughout history have taken place on Aug. 21, just like the total solar eclipse that will cross the U.S. this summer.

What would happen if you took two galaxies and mixed them together over millions of years? A new image including data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals the cosmic culinary outcome.

Alaska Airlines said Monday it will charter a flight over the Pacific Ocean this Aug. 21 so select passengers can view the astronomical event from the sky.

It seems that every few months or so, breathless claims surface on the internet that NASA is about to make an Earth-shattering announcement about aliens … or UFOs … or killer asteroids … or some other sensational a...

A new study by a team of astronomers from the LPL indicates that the orbital inclinations of distant Kuiper Belt Objects could hint at the existence of a Mars-sized body in the area. The post What Caused the Kuiper Belt ...

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Significant eclipses throughout history have taken place on Aug. 21, just like the total solar eclipse that will cross the U.S. this summer.

Although Europe's Space Rider reusable space plane is three years or so from its debut, the European Space Agency is already making plans to privatize the unmanned orbital vehicle.

"Uranus is a geometric nightmare," said Carol Paty, the Georgia Tech associate professor who co-authored the study. "The magnetic field tumbles very fast, like a child cartwheeling down a hill head over heels. When the m...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the prime contractor for Japan's next-generation launch vehicle, the H3, says it is on schedule for a first launch in 2020, and will soon learn if the cost-cutting efforts pursued over the pa...

More than 30 years after Voyager 2 sped past Uranus, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are using the spacecraft's data to learn more about the icy planet....

NASA Poised to Discover Alien Life --"We are On the Verge of Making One of the Most Profound Discoveries in History"(VIDEO/Weekend Feature) The Milky Way --"Could Harbor a Spacetime Tunnel the Size of the Galaxy Itself H...

This orange blob shows the nearby star Betelgeuse, as seen by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)....

Our galactic home, the Milky Way, houses more than a hundred billion stars, all kept together by gravity. Most are located in a flattened structure - the galactic disc - with a bulge at its center, while the remaining st...

More than 30 years after Voyager 2 sped past Uranus, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are using the spacecraft's data to learn more about the icy planet. Their new study suggests that Uranus' magnetosphere, th...

Dutch scientists on Monday celebrated the discovery of only the sixth meteorite found in recent history in The Netherlands, which at 4.5-billion years old may hold clues to the birth of our solar system.

(Phys.org)--World View Enterprises bills itself on its website as a "full-service commercial launch provider"--it offers to take various types of equipment up to the edge of space using a balloon for a short amount of ti...

With the help of software that mimics a human brain, ESA's Gaia satellite spotted six stars zipping at high speed from the centre of our galaxy to its outskirts. This could provide key information about some of the most ...

VTT's small and lightweight hyperspectral camera was successfully launched to space in Aalto-1 nanosatellite on 23rd of June 2017. Scalable sensing technology offers opportunities for new SmallSat- based services.

There was a lot of excitement when Proxima b was discovered - a potentially habitable exoplanet around our nearest neighbour star, Proxima Centauri. Located a mere 4.24 light years away, we may actually be able to send t...

On 30 June, ESA experts will join scientists, astronauts and (space) rock stars in a 24-hour global webcast. Live segment from ESA's ESOC mission control centre runs 08:30-10:00 GMT (10:30-12:00 CEST)

This image displays a galaxy known as ESO 486-21 (with several other background galaxies and foreground stars visible in the field as well). ESO 486-21 is a spiral galaxy--albeit with a somewhat irregular and ill-defined...