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With the help of a gigantic cosmic lens, astronomers have measured the magnetic field of a galaxy nearly five billion light-years away. The achievement is giving them important new clues about a problem at the frontiers ...

NASA is studying a "lean" architecture for Mars sample return that could allow the agency to bring back Martian rocks as soon as the end of the 2020s. SpaceNews.com

NASA is making progress and awarding prizes in its competition to build a 3-D printed habitat for deep space exploration.

A long-standing but unproven assumption about the X-ray spectra of black holes in space has been contradicted by hands-on experiments performed at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine.

When it is deployed in 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope will spend some of its time studying the "Ocean Worlds" of Europa and Enceladus, hoping to find evidence of life. The post NASA Says James Webb Telescope will S...

Despite rising floodwaters, Johnson Space Center continues critical space station operations --

Seeking to restore capacity for customers impacted by a satellite malfunction earlier this year, fleet operator SES is swapping launches between SpaceX and Arianespace, the company announced today. SpaceNews.com

The famous "Summer Triangle" will appear overhead around 9:30 p.m. local time this week.

"We have been dreaming, for about a decade, of the ability to fax life forms," says Juan Enriquez, an executive with Excel Ventures, a venture capital firm, who imagines a new Industrial Revolution with the "digital-biol...

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made a number of inventions and discoveries that remain important to astronomy and science in general today.

An international team of astronomers has used a new algorithm to enhance observations from the NASA Kepler Space Telescope in its K2 Mission and perform the most detailed study yet of the variability of the Seven Sisters...

KIC 8462852 (aka. Tabby's Star) continues to be a source of both fascination and controversy. Ever since it was first seen to be undergoing strange and sudden dips in brightness (in October of 2015) astronomers have been...

Today - Lung Tissue: The crew took samples and fixed media in Tissue Bags. They then inserted the bags in a Minus Eighty Degree Celsius Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI). The Lung Tissue investigation uses the micrograv...

A good watch can take a beating and keep on ticking. With the right parts, can a rover do the same on a planet like Venus?

UWM astronomer David Kaplan and colleagues have begun a radio search for the magnetic fields of planets orbiting distant stars.

A number of companies are getting closer to extracting resources from space rocks --

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft fired its thrusters to position itself on the correct course for its upcoming Earth flyby. The spacecraft, which is on a two-year outbound journey to asteroid Bennu, successfully performed a ...

A team of Dutch astronomers, led by Thomas Wijnen from Radboud University, has managed to tilt and shrink gaseous disks, in which planets form, in a virtual wind tunnel. The research helps in finding an explanation for t...

A larger mirror could help the next generation of space telescopes find a habitable world beyond the solar system.

Intense stellar radiation likely stripped away the atmosphere of the nearby alien planet Proxima b long ago, a new study suggests.

Earlier this month, radio dishes from three deep-space networks combined to catch faint 'survival' whispers from one of ESA's Mars orbiters, underlining the value of international collaboration for exploring the Red Plan...

The galaxy NGC 178 may be small, but it packs quite a punch. Measuring around 40,000 light-years across, its diameter is less than half that of the Milky Way, and it is accordingly classified as a dwarf galaxy. Despite i...