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Roughly 50 million light-years away lies a somewhat overlooked little galaxy named NGC 1559. Pictured here by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, this barred spiral lies in the little-observed southern constellation of Reticul...

Loaded with three tons of food, fuel and supplies, a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 3:13 a.m. EST (2:13 p.m. Baikonur time) Tuesday, Feb. 13, to resupply the International Space Station.

"These crystals are a new type of evidence that builds the story of persistent water and a long-lived habitable environment on Mars," said Curiosity Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. ...

Statement from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot on the Fiscal Year 2019 agency budget proposal.

The Trump administration wants NASA out of the International Space Station by 2025, and private businesses running the place instead.

In Sir Ridley Scott's Prometheus, a quasi-prequel to his 1979 blockbuster film, "Alien," an Earth-based crew is sent on a journey to a near-by star system to explore a planet believed to host an advanced civilization. Th...

The Trump administration is offering $19.6 billion for NASA in its fiscal year 2019 request, while seeking to cancel a flagship astronomy mission and end NASA funding of the International Space Station in 2025. SpaceNews...

The launch of Elon Musk's Roadster aboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket has fostered fresh demand for the car now in space. No, not the electric hot rod, but rather its smaller replica: a Mattel Hot Wheels toy mounted on ...

Satellite fleet operator SES on Feb. 12 announced that CEO Karim Michel Sabbagh will be leaving the company April 5, exactly four years after assuming the position. SpaceNews.com

Forty-five years ago this month, a telescope tucked inside a 14-story, 500-ton dome atop a mile-high peak in Arizona took in the night sky for the first time and recorded its observations in glass photographic plates.

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory:

A toaster-sized atomic clock will hitch a ride on the next SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch.

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Top individuals from around the world convened this week at the World Government Summit organized by the AI Initiative from the Future Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and H.E. Omar bin Sultan Al Olama...

An international group of astronomers has detected a new "hot Jupiter" exoplanet making a near-grazing transit of its host star. The newly found alien world, designated WASP-174b, is most likely similar in size and mass ...

In its five years in space, the Landsat 8 Earth-observing satellite has racked up some impressive statistics: 26,500 orbits around the planet, 1.1 million "scenes" captured, a motherlode of images that represents 16 perc...

We all know about powerful supernova blasts -- but compared to quasars and their brighter cousins, blazars, they're peanuts.

The average temperature is 61 F (16 C), but temperatures vary greatly around the world.

The photos don't look like much: blurry green splotches against pixelated blue. But they're arguably among the most amazing photographic images ever.

The first discovered interstellar visitor to our solar system has had a violent past, which is causing it to tumble around chaotically, a Queen's University Belfast scientist has discovered.

NASA's fiscal year 2019 budget proposal will include plans to end funding for the International Space Station in 2025, but leaves open the possibility of handing part or all of the station over to private operators.

Yep: we're all living on a giant paradox.