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ESA's first mission of the year was launched today: GomX-4B is the Agency's most advanced technology-tester yet, featuring a hyperspectral camera and tiny thrusters to manoeuvre thousands of kilometres from its near-twin...

ESA's XMM-Newton has spotted surprising changes in the powerful streams of gas from two massive stars, suggesting that colliding stellar winds don't behave as expected.

A former Obama administration official is optimistic that the Trump administration will continue to pursue the development of non-binding international agreements to promote norms of behavior in outer space. SpaceNews.co...

NASA's first mission to provide unprecedented measurements of, and changes in, the temperature and composition of Earth's upper atmosphere launched at 5:20 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 25, from the Guiana Space Centre in Kour...

On Jan. 20, 2018, amateur astronomer Scott Tilley detected an unexpected signal coming from what he later postulated was NASA's long-lost IMAGE satellite, which had not been in contact since 2005. On Jan. 30, NASA--along...

A new study from a team of astronomers from Northwestern University indicates that molecules could be born within the outflows created by supermassive black holes. The post Outflows From Black Holes are Creating New Mole...

Satellite connectivity and content provider Global Eagle Entertainment on Jan. 31 handed in the last of its late financial documents to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and expects the Nasdaq stock exch...

As the universe is unimaginably vast and constantly expanding, someday, billions of years hence, our Milky Way Galaxy will be the only galaxy future human's will know and see. Will they experience the ultimate terror of ...

Living near a star is risky business, and positioning a spacecraft near the Sun is a very good way to observe rapidly changing solar activity and deliver early warning of possibly harmful space weather. ESA is now lookin...

Darwin thought evolution was too slow to change the environment on observable timescales. Ecologists are discovering that he was wrong. Rapid evolution can sometimes offset some of the detrimental effects of a warming cl...

A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Using microlensing--an astronomical phenomenon and the only known method capable of discov...

Russian astronauts are taking a spacewalk to upgrade an antenna at the International Space Station.

"So this means that we are missing something," said Marcel Pawlowski, a Hubble Fellow in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. "Either the simulations lack some important ingredie...

"The hypothesis is that a large comet fragmented and the chunks impacted the Earth, causing this disaster," said University of Kansas Emeritus Professor of Physics & Astronomy Adrian Melott. "A number of different chemic...

Our week through the lens: 29 January - 2 February 2018

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features Tunisia's capital Tunis, in North Africa, and highlights some of the country's important wetlands....

Fans of the Horsehead and Crab nebulas, take note: There's another giant galactic animal on the scene.

It's an extreme version of trash into treasure: New research finds that microbes can transform poop into fuel for edible bacteria.

Extremely distant galaxies are usually too faint to be seen, even by the largest telescopes. But nature has a solution--gravitational lensing, predicted by Albert Einstein and observed many times by astronomers. Now, an ...

Two cosmonauts took a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (Feb. 2) to tackle a long-awaited upgrade to the communications system on the Russian side of the orbiting laboratory.

Russian cosmonauts are taking a spacewalk at the International Space Station today (Feb. 2), and you can watch the entire 6.5-hour excursion live online.

The midpoint of the 89-day interval that runs from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox occurs this weekend -- a natural "halftime for winter."