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The case for a giant plume of water vapor wafting from Jupiter's potentially life-supporting moon Europa just got a lot stronger.

Brexit talks have reached into space, with the European Union and Britain fighting over the rights that London will have to the multi-billion Galileo satellite navigation system and its security-sensitive information.

A small group of students recently got to experience a rare, spaceflight thrill: seeing if the tiny satellite, called a CubeSat, they designed and built not only survived a rock

China is set to launch a relay satellite to the second Earth-moon Lagrange point May 21, in a necessary precursor to the planned Chang'e-4 soft-landing on the lunar far side late in the year. SpaceNews.com

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his NextBigCoins blog.

Incoming: The Earth-Moon system has company tonight. The Asteroid: Near Earth Asteroid 2010 WC9 is back. Discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey outside Tucson, Arizona on November 30th, 2010, 2010 WC9 was lost after a bri...

The International Space Station will be orbiting a little higher this weekend to prepare for the departure of three Expedition 55 crew members and the arrival of a new Russian cargo craft....

Earlier this year, astronomers stumbled upon a fascinating finding: thousands of black holes likely exist near the center of our galaxy. The X-ray images that enabled this discovery weren't from some state-of-the-art new...

The autonomous rotorcraft will fly to the Red Planet with the Mars 2020 rover --

Scientists presented further evidence Monday for water plumes on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa, raising hopes of probing the jets for signs of life around the second planet from Earth.

Archived observations from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft all but confirm the Jovian moon’s subsurface ocean is within reach of future life-seeking missions --

ESA Space Science:

"Searching for Signatures of Technological Civilizations" --Stephen Hawking's 'Breakthrough Listen' Vastly Expands Its Ability to Scan the Milky Way Hubble Astronomers Observe Birth of a Massive Solar System Planet Earth...

The company, funded by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is quietly working to bring astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

"The formation of stars in a universe is a battle between the attraction of gravity, and the repulsion of dark energy," said Richard Bower at Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology. "We have found in o...

Using European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) European astronomers have uncovered a complex circumstellar environment of the star HD 50138. The finding, which could provide important clues about the ev...

A space mission designed to solve fundamental questions about how galaxies and forming planetary systems grow and evolve will be considered by the European Space Agency (ESA).

At first glance, this image may resemble red ink filtering through water or a crackling stream of electricity, but it is actually a unique view of our cosmic home. It reveals the central plane of the Milky Way as seen by...

This week marks the twentieth anniversary of "first light" for the telescope behind the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which has gone on to create by far the largest three-dimensional map of the Universe ever made. Ear...

Astronomers have proposed a way of finding mountains, oceans and volcanoes on distant planets that are much too small to observe directly --

Satellite images give scientists an idea of the aftereffects of North Korea's latest nuclear test.

Scientists are using alien environments on Earth to improve our abilities to search for life on Mars.