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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a massive galaxy cluster glowing brightly in the darkness. Despite its beauty, this cluster bears the distinctly unpoetic name of PLCK G308.3-20.2.

A key decision on where to place a $1.4 billion giant telescope has been delayed.

A NASA authorization bill to be considered by the House next week would direct NASA to work more closely with commercial partners in areas ranging from Earth observation to deep space exploration. SpaceNews.com

The IAU just approved of a dozen names for features on Pluto's moon Charon, which include mountains named after Octavia Butler and Sir Arthur C. Clarke. The post Pluto’s Charon Gets Mountains Named After Sci-Fi Authors...

The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor, also known as the Space Storm Hunter, was installed today outside the European space laboratory Columbus.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on April 12 released an enforcement advisory warning that organizations will be penalized for launching spacecraft without the appropriate regulatory approvals and advised launc...

Thunderstorms in Earth's upper atmosphere remain something of a mystery. Scientists cannot reach them directly with instruments; they are too high for balloons and too low for weather satellites. Flying through thunderst...

With Vice President Pence expected to make another space policy announcement next week, industry and government officials offered their endorsement of the work the National Space Council has done since it was reconstitut...

As a NASA spacecraft designed to fly closer to the sun than ever before arrived in Florida for launch, project officials are still studying problems with sensors on the spacecraft.

Astronomy enthusiasts -- including Space.com -- will come together next weekend (April 21-22) for the Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF), which producers have billed as "the ultimate astronomy and space experience."

SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch) at the European Southern Observatory has now been particularly successful at studying new born stars still surrounded by gas and dust. With SPHERE, ESO astro...

An environmental group announced plans April 11 to develop and operate its own satellite to track one particular greenhouse gas, the latest sign of the proliferation of smallsat technology. SpaceNews.com

At 11:15 on a Monday morning in May, an ordinary looking delivery van rolls into the intersection of 16th and K streets NW in downtown Washington, D.C., just a few blocks north of the White House. Inside, suicide bombers...

Dark matter is aptly named. It emits no light and interacts with visible matter only via gravity. But dark matter might be only the tip of an invisible universe of unknown forces. This possibility has led to a hunt for.....

Our week through the lens: 9-13 April 2018

There are potentially thousands of planets that lie just outside our solar system--galactic neighbors that could be rocky worlds or more tenuous collections of gas and dust. Where are these closest exoplanets located? An...

The ASTERIA satellite, which was deployed into low-Earth orbit in November, is only slightly larger than a box of cereal, but it could be used to help astrophysicists study planets orbiting other stars.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The names of explorers and the authors of journeys make up some of the first feature names for Charon.

The first episode of Netflix's reimagined "Lost in Space" portrays space exploration as a brutal, unforgiving endeavor.

NASA is in discussions with its Russian counterparts about extending some upcoming space station missions as a way to buy more time for development of commercial crew vehicles. SpaceNews.com

Will Smith called an astronaut at the International Space Station today (April 12) in the first-ever Instagram Live video streamed from space.