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A new research study by a group of astronomers, based on observation using the VLTI, has created the most detailed map of a star other than the Sun. The post New Study of Antares Creates the Best Map Ever of a Distant St...

Gossip over colliding neutron stars has astronomers in a tizzy --

A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched a long-delayed remote sensing satellite for the government of Taiwan Aug. 24, executing another first stage landing in the process. SpaceNews.com

SpaceX on Thursday launched the first satellite designed and built entirely in Taiwan, a spacecraft that aims to boost disaster forecasts and mapping, environmental observation and space research.

The United Nations Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development has selected Intelsat's Chief Executive Stephen Spengler as a commissioner, the company announced today. SpaceNews.com

They've flown on high-profile interplanetary and more modest low-Earth-orbiting missions, but in all cases the ubiquitous fluxgate magnetometers that scientists use to measure the intensity of a magnetic field will degra...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will use its infrared capabilities to study the "ocean worlds" of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, adding to observations previously made by NASA's Galileo and Cassini ...

With the financing, Descartes Labs plans to enhance its "data refinery," the cloud-based supercomputing platform it uses to draw useful information and insight from disparate datasets SpaceNews.com

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brad Rogers at The Evolving Planet blog.

During the Great American Solar Eclipse on Monday (Aug. 21), 10 professional wingsuit jumpers leapt from a plane and soared into the darkness just seconds before totality began in Oregon.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft could end up carrying a message for intelligent aliens, just like the agency's venerable Voyager probes are doing.

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson's final news conference from the International Space Station will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Aug. 30.

Today - Multi-Omics-Mouse: The crew performed routine maintenance on the Multi-Omics-Mouse Cage Units that are being maintained in microgravity, exchanging waste collection equipment and odor filters....

In 2016, the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics created the world's highest peak power pulsed lasers - intense lasers that generate beams in extremely short bursts - clocking in at 5.3 quadrillion watts (a q...

ESA participated in the Kid's Weightless Dreams campaign organised by Novespace and Rêves de Gosse giving children with disabilities the opportunity to experience weightlessness and lunar gravity on a parabolic flight.

ESA astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Matthias Maurer joined 16 Chinese astronauts earlier this month for nine days of sea survival training off China's coastal city of Yantai. The ultimate goal is for ESA to establi...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will use its infrared capabilities to study the "ocean worlds" of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, adding to observations previously...

Eruptions from one of the most active volcanic regions in the world sent plumes of ash and steam into the sky this week, as captured in a spectacular image by an Earth-monitoring satellite.

The crew on the International Space Station helped raise awareness for pediatric cancer with the donning of a colorful spacesuit that was decorated by childhood cancer patients and inspired by the cooperation between the...

An orbiter around Saturn's largest moon would study the intriguing methane- and ethane-rich surface while looking for signs of what's going on in the ocean beneath.

The new image reveals the surface and atmosphere of the red supergiant star Antares in unprecedented detail --

Solar power took a dip in the United States when the total eclipse swept across the country Monday (Aug. 21), as a new video shows.