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The ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA mission SOHO--short for Solar and Heliospheric Observatory--got a visit from an old friend this week when comet 96P entered its field of view on Oct. 25, 2017. The comet entered t...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

NASA recently unveiled their SELFI instrument, which will search Enceladus' plumes to look for signs of life in the interior The post Check Out NASA’s New Instrument that will Look for Life on Enceladus appeared first ...

NASA awarded contracts Nov. 1 to five companies to examine how they could develop a power and propulsion module that could become the initial element of the agency's proposed Deep Space Gateway. SpaceNews.com

Russian authorities said Friday they had launched an inquiry into alleged embezzlement at the Progress factory which develops Soyuz rockets for the country's space industry.

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Since 2010, satellite operators with U.S. defense business have posted fallng revenue as American troop levels have fallen in the Middle East. SpaceNews.com

If the House NDAA language ends up becoming law, it would set things back at least two years, said Claire Leon, director of the Launch Enterprise Directorate at the Space and Missile Systems Center, in Los Angeles, Calif...

Gemini Observatory: Gemini Observatory, using the Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrograph on the Gemini North telescope in Hawai'i, has confirmed the spiral nature of what is now the most distant known spiral galaxy. T...

The question NASA scientists ultimately want to answer is whether life exists in Enceladus or on other icy worlds in the outer solar system. At the bottom of Earth's oceans, hydrothermal vents thrive with life. Does Ence...

Binoculars are great for checking out all kinds of natural wonders, from distant celestial bodies to birds and other wildlife on Earth. Here are some of the best binoculars for beginners, kids and seasoned veterans alike...

When you're on top of the world--or orbiting it--there's no better place to be. NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) had a late night yesterday, staying up to watch a special uplink from Mission C...

From the fourth most populous city to the rugged Outback, the Sentinel-3A satellite gives us a wide-ranging view over Australia's southwestern corner....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The Universe contains some truly massive objects. Although we are still unsure how such gigantic things come to be, the current leading theory is known as hierarchical clustering, wher...

Full confession time: Newsarama didn't get to see Ragnarok until a press screening mid last week, days after the initial wave of reviews started to surface and it became readily apparent the film was another MCU critical...

Our week through the lens: 30 October - 3 November 2017

Staff members at the University of Arizona's Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab recently began making the fifth mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope. See photos here.

Technicians have begun casting the fifth primary mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) at the University of Arizona's Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory, project representatives announced today (Nov. 3).

The sun is a big ball of hot gas and plasma.

The most ancient spiral galaxy discovered to date is revealing its secrets to a team of astronomers at Swinburne University of Technology and The Australian National University (ANU), part of the Australian Research Coun...

Photobombing asteroids from our solar system have snuck their way into this deep image of the universe taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

"Star Wars: Episode IX" will mark the end of the current trilogy - but it won't be the last we'll see of its young heroes, Rey and Finn, or their companions Poe Dameron and BB-8.