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The American flag has played a prominent role in NASA missions; here's a look at the flag and NASA, in space and on the ground.

Mitochondrial DNA from Neanderthal individual who died in Swabian Jura in modern-day southwest Germany suggests that Neanderthals received genetic contribution from Africa by hominins that are closely related to modern h...

Human spaceflight image of the week: Citizen scientists help to grow crops in space

Watch Thursday's media briefing on our mission to Mercury, 09:00 GMT (11:00 CEST). Ask questions on Twitter via #askESA

A state-of-the-art telescope for detecting optical signatures of gravitational waves - built and operated by an international research collaboration, led by the University of Warwick - has been officially launched.

A multi-wavelength study of a pair of colliding galaxies has revealed the cause of a supermassive black hole's case of 'indigestion.' Results will be presented by Dr Hayden Rampadarath at the National Astronomy Meeting a...

CW Leonis, a red giant star 500 times the size of the sun is located in the Leo constellation 300 light years away. This is an evolving star that is ejecting significant amounts of dust forming an enveloping cloud many t...

A study of the sun using sound waves suggests that the layer in which the significant magnetic activity is located has grown thinner in recent years. Prof Yvonne Elsworth will present results at the National Astronomy Me...

NASA is moving forward with a plan to develop a refrigerator-sized spacecraft capable of deflecting asteroids and preventing them from colliding with Earth.

While people on Earth celebrate Independence Day with fireworks and flags, NASA astronauts aboard the station will be doing science.

On July 4, 1997, NASA's Pathfinder mission touched down on the Red Planet, delivering an eponymous lander and a small rover called Sojourner to the Martian surface.

Juno arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, after a nearly five-year trek through deep space. Since its arrival, the probe has been peering at the gas giant, gathering data that should help scientists better understand Jupi...

Every year, about two Earth masses of material flows to the disk of the young star V346 Nor from its surroundings, to end up on the star causing brightening. The hard-to-see phenomenon was captured by a Hungarian-led res...

A team of astronomers, led by PhD researcher Malcolm Druett of Northumbria University at Newcastle, have taken a big step forward in understanding a 30-year-old mystery in the process of formation of solar flares. Druett...

A primitive galaxy that could provide clues about the early universe has been spotted by astronomers as it begins to be consumed by a gigantic neighboring galaxy.

Keck Observatory:

A primitive galaxy that could provide clues about the early Universe has been spotted by astronomers as it begins to be consumed by a gigantic neighboring galaxy. The Little Cub galaxy - so called because it sits in the ...

ESO Supernova:

(University of Cambridge) A group of astronomers have shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy -- which are travelling so fast that they can escape the Milky Way -- are in fact runaways from a much smaller galax...

(Royal Astronomical Society) A serendipitous detection of the organic molecule methanol around an intriguing moon of Saturn suggests that material spewed from Enceladus undertakes a complex chemical journey once vented i...

(Royal Astronomical Society) A multi-wavelength study of a pair of colliding galaxies has revealed the cause of a supermassive black hole's case of 'indigestion.' Results will be presented by Dr. Hayden Rampadarath at th...