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Astronomers using Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) have found evidence for a bizarre lensing system in space, in which a large assemblage of stars is magnifying a much more distant galaxy containing a jet-...

E.C. Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory, explains why you should really try to see the 2017 total solar eclipse. (Hint: It's worth it.)

As the number of cubesats and other small satellites grows, experts advise that some degree of industry self-regulation will be needed to avoid collisions that could lead to more restrictive government regulations. Space...

An unnamed backer of Canadian Earth observation company UrtheCast's proposed radar and optical satellite constellation has asked for UrtheCast to develop a standalone radar satellite ahead of the rest of its constellatio...

The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a dwarf galaxy named NGC 5949....

While the U.S Air Force is taking more steps to oversee nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3), the service must focus more on short-term problems than long-term issues, the Government Accountability Office (...

On Sept. 30, 2014, multiple NASA observatories watched what appeared to be the beginnings of a solar eruption....

NASA has awarded a contract to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California, to extend operations of the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), also in Pasadena, through Sept. 30, 2018.

NASA has awarded the Kennedy Infrastructure, Applications and Communication (KIAC) contract to ASRC Federal Data Solutions, LLC of Beltsville, Maryland.

A new study from the University of Washington indicates that tidally-locked planets may be quite common, a finding which has implications for exoplanet habitability The post Potentially Habitable, Tidally-Locked Exoplane...

Astronomers using Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) have found evidence for a bizarre lensing system in space, in which a large assemblage of stars is magnifying a much more distant galaxy containing a jet-...

The $2.4 billion Mars 2020 mission is just one example of NASA's increasing reliance on artificial intelligence, although the term itself makes some people uneasy. SpaceNews.com

North Korea's threat to strike Guam with a salvo of ballistic missiles has raised the stakes for a U.S. missile shield some see as compromised by potentially exploitable seams in its all-important space layer. SpaceNews....

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Expedition 52/53 crew on the International Space Station

Venus looks bland and featureless in visible light, but change the filter to ultraviolet, and Earth's twin suddenly looks like a different planet. Dark and light areas stripe the sphere, indicating that something is abso...

If the weather is good, viewers across the UK will be treated to a partial solar eclipse on 21 August 2017, just before sunset. In a partial eclipse, a small bite out of the Sun can be seen at the mid-eclipse point, as i...

The cosmic web--the distribution of matter on the largest scales in the universe--has usually been defined through the distribution of galaxies. Now, a new study by a team of astronomers from France, Israel and Hawaii de...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Venus looks bland and featureless in visible light, but change the filter to ultraviolet, and Earth's twin suddenly looks like a different planet. Dark and light areas stripe the spher...

Eclipse expeditions require meticulous advance planning to ensure that astronomers and their equipment wind up in the right place at the right time --

Today - SpaceX (SpX)-12 Launch: SpX-12 launched successfully today from Kennedy Space Center at 11:31 am CDT....

Ten spacecraft, from ESA's Venus Express to NASA's Voyager-2, felt the effect of a solar eruption as it washed through the solar system while three other satellites watched, providing a unique perspective on this space w...

Many of the exoplanets to be found by the coming high-powered telescopes will probably be tidally locked -- with one side permanently facing their host star -- according to new research by astronomer Rory Barnes of the U...