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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has now been exploring the Red Planet for more than 14 years.

A new self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle on Vera Rubin Ridge, which it has been investigating for the past several months....

The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the moon at roughly five miles per second on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, from Alexandria, Va....

Here are some lovely photographs that were taken of the "Super Blue Moon", which appeared in the early-morning sky today! The post Here Are Some Amazing Pictures of the January 2018 Lunar Eclipse appeared first on Univer...

A spectacular photo shows the International Space Station (ISS) crossing the face of the moon in the lead-up to the long-awaited "Super Blue Blood Moon" eclipse.

Skywatchers around the world took their cameras out to capture the total lunar eclipse of 2018. Here are some of our favorite snapshots.

Operations image of the week: An Icelandic landscape combines a lake, a waterfall, a rainbow and a green auroral streak, all bathed in moonlight

SpaceX on Wednesday blasted off a four-ton secure military communications satellite called GovSat-1, a partnership between the government of Luxembourg and the satellite operator SES.

Russia on Thursday successfully launched 11 satellites from its Vostochny cosmodrome, in the third rocket liftoff from the new spaceport, the space agency said.

The European Space Agency team operating the star-mapping Gaia space telescope is preparing for its most comprehensive data release to date while defending its overtaxed data-processing network against budget cuts. Space...

The study presents the discovery of one of the stars with the least content of "metals" (heavy elements) known....

The centers of massive galaxies are among the most exotic regions in the universe....

A blazar is an astronomical object within an elliptical galaxy, at whose centre there is a supermassive black hole which emits jets of radiation and particles with huge energies....

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U.K.-based Skyrora has unveiled plans to host a suborbital test flight in the fourth quarter of 2018. As part of its strategy to meet the rising demand for small satellite launches in a cost-effective manner, the company...

Efforts to bring commercial technology into military space programs is good news for the growing population of startups and other businesses that are investing in this sector. SpaceNews.com

Satellite fleet operator Thaicom's revenue fell by $60 million last year, a nearly 23 percent decline the regional operator blamed on a slowdown in Thailand's broadcast sector. SpaceNews.com

The relative power of an eruption is ranked on an "explosivity index," a scale from 0 to 8 depending largely on the volume of ejected ash and gas and how high it goes -- 100,000 feet or more in some...       

Thanks to a new study by a team of Spanish researchers, the oldest star in the Milky Way may have finally been discovered The post Astronomers Find One of the Oldest Stars in the Milky Way appeared first on Universe Toda...

CU Boulder researchers have discovered a mechanism that explains the persistence of asymmetrical stellar clusters surrounding supermassive black holes in some galaxies and suggests that during post-galactic merger period...

An international team of astronomers has determined that Centaurus A, a massive elliptical galaxy 13 million light-years from Earth, is accompanied by a number of dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting the main body in a narr...

A surprising alignment between small satellites of the galaxy Centaurus A challenges the standard model of cosmology --