Space News

South Africa on Friday unveiled a super radio telescope, a first phase of what will be the world's largest telescope in a project to try to unravel the secrets of the universe. The 64-dish MeerKAT telescope in the remote...

Buried deep in the Antarctic ice, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory may solve one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy, answering the questions behind the origin of neutrinos and cosmic rays.

A new, striking image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope shows the intact dust towers of the spectacular star-forming region known as the Pillars of Creation, which is located in the souther...

New observations by three of the world's largest radio telescopes have revealed that an asteroid discovered last year is actually two objects, each about 3,000 feet (900 meters) in size, orbiting each other....

Composite image of typhoon Maria, approaching the East coast of China, from 00:00 UTC on Wednesday, 11 July 2018....

Though it resembles a peaceful rose swirling in the darkness of the cosmos, NGC 3256 is actually the site of a violent clash....

MeerKAT has drawn astronomers, engineers and data scientists from around the world --

As our robotic rovers experience a global storm on Mars it’s an opportunity to reflect on billions of dry, dusty years --

Throughout history, humans have shared an innate interest in exploration -- to travel to new reaches of our planet, and even our universe.

Forty years ago, Pluto's largest moon Charon was discovered.

A Cygnus cargo ship will separate from the International Space Station on Sunday (July 15), and you can watch its departure live online.

Data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft using its Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument point to a new heat source close to the south pole of Io that could indicate a previously undiscovered volcano on the s...

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