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New simulations show that the search for life on other planets may well be more difficult than previously assumed, in research published today in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The study i...

A study team led from the University of Hawaii recently studied two inflated gas giants, and revealed a possible explanation as to why they are so "puffy". The post Astronomers Think They Know Why Hot Jupiters Get So Eno...

This finding shows that perhaps the forces nature uses aren't the only ones possible. "It's very hard to ask questions about the origins of life," said Floyd Romesberg, Ph.D., who led the study for the Scripps Research I...

A new study charts potential courses for missions to ‘Oumuamua, an oddly-shaped space rock from another star --

"The period of time occupied by organic intelligence is just a thin sliver between early life and the long era of the machines," says Martin Rees is Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, at the University of ...

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A selfie sent from Antarctica to the International Space Station demonstrated a disruption-tolerant network that promises to make an interplanetary internet more reliable.

The Expedition 53 crew is configuring the orbital complex for a pair of cargo missions and a crew swap in December. Two colorful soccer ball-sized satellites were also floating around inside the International Space Stati...

Follow the Sentinel-5P First Light event live on 1 December, when the first images from this air-monitoring mission will be revealed. Streaming starts at 09:30 GMT (10:30 CET)

"We all knew from the beginning that the hunt for alien life will be a challenge," says Ludmila Carone of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. "As it turns out, we are only just scratching the surface of how difficult...

"MUSE can do something that Hubble can't -- it splits up the light from every point in the image into its component colors to create a spectrum," said Roland Bacon with the Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon. "Thi...

The first trailer for "Avengers: Infinity War" has been released and it is EPIC!

Dellingr, a shoebox-sized spacecraft built to show that CubeSat platforms could be cost-effective, reliable and capable of gathering highly robust science, was released from the International Space Station on Nov. 20, 20...

A supermoon happens when the full moon coincides with the moon's closest approach to Earth. Supermoons make the moon appear a little brighter and closer than normal, although the difference is hard to spot with the naked...

ESA's ground station in Western Australia routinely communicates with spacecraft at far-away places like Mars. Now, it's using sunlight to generate electricity, significantly reducing energy costs.

In just a few years, NASA's next Mars rover mission will be flying to the Red Planet.

With economic activity poised to surge in space, scientists are reexamining how rockets might harm Earth’s atmosphere --

With economic activity poised to surge in space, scientists are reexamining how rockets might harm Earth’s atmosphere --

The current cosmological model to explain the universe, the "Big Bang" model, aims to describe all observable phenomena, including the evolution of galaxies from earliest times to the present day. One of the major proble...

A new video from SpaceX shows the best way for space nerds to send a herd of cows running: Just dangle a self-landing rocket practically over their heads.

Astronomers have found 72 never-before-seen galaxies hiding in plain sight inside a vast patch of the sky previously observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.