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Telescopes in Hawaii have obtained new images of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot, which will assist the first-ever close-up study of the Great Red Spot, planned for July 10. On that date, NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly d...

Satellite operator SES says it has regained the ability to communicate with AMC-9, a 14-year old satellite in the company's fleet that stopped listening to commands June 17, but that the satellite continues to list westw...

Complex life may be less resilient than microbial life bysome measures, but it's not necessarily cosmically delicate --

China on Sunday announced the launch of a powerful rocket designed to carry communication satellites into orbit had been "unsuccessful", in a glitch for the country's ambitious space programme.

The second launch of China's most powerful rocket, the Long March 5, ended in failure July 2, the second incident involving a Chinese launch vehicle in as many weeks. SpaceNews.com

The second launch of China's most powerful rocket, the Long March 5, ended in failure July 2, the second incident involving a Chinese launch vehicle in as many weeks.

A new ESOcast video explores the different tools astronomers have used throughout history to captured starlight.

Some crafty celestial sleuthing has helped astronomers identify the "star" that inspired Lord Byron's famous poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage."

Registration is open for the third iteration of an annual space conference that talks about applications of space technology for Earth.

SpaceX's 39th Falcon 9 rocket is being prepared for liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center at 7:36 p.m. EDT (2136 GMT) Sunday (July 2), as the company works off a backlog of missions that piled up after an accident 10 mon...

Just days after celebrating its first anniversary in Jupiter orbit, NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the gas giant's iconic, 10,000-mile-wide (16,000-kilometer-wide) storm. This wil...

(Royal Astronomical Society) New models of massive stellar eruptions hint at an extra layer of complexity when considering whether an exoplanet may be habitable or not. Models developed for our own Sun have now been appl...