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Signals from a rapidly rotating, ultradense star have been transformed into beautiful melodies, revealing the "SOS" sounds of the star's dwindling companion.

Watch the replay of ESA's Aeolus mission lifting off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana

As part of their plan to establish an "international lunar village" on the Moon in the coming decades, the ESA is experimenting with making bricks out of lunar dust simulants. The post Building Bricks on the Moon From Lu...

The United States needs to accelerate development of its own robust defensive satellites and clarify its rights to protect its key space systems. SpaceNews.com

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According to a new study by a Canadian-led team of researchers, the atmospheric phenomena known as STEVE is not an aurora, but something else entirely. The post That New Kind of Aurora Called “Steve”? Turns Out, it I...

Initially scheduled for a minimum 2.5-year primary mission, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has gone far beyond its expected lifetime--and is still going strong after 15 years.

The universe is at your fingertips with two new digital products from NASA.

The European Space Agency is preparing to launch the first satellite that will directly measure wind speeds around the world in what scientists hope will improve weather forecasts.

Last summer, Case Western Reserve University undergraduate student Chris Carr spotted what looked like a "smudge" on deep sky images taken from the university's Burrell Schmidt telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory...

The US leadership has plans to introduce a "US Space Force" by 2020. Already announced by president Donald Trump in June, US vice president Mike Pence outlined further details of the plan at a press conference on August ...

Next month, NASA will launch into space the most advanced laser instrument of its kind, beginning a mission to measure - in unprecedented detail - changes in the heights of Earth's polar ice.

Relive the scene of an epic betrayal on "Star Wars" with Lego's latest addition to the franchise -- a model of Cloud City, where hero Han Solo's friend Lando makes a nasty deal with the series villain, Darth Vader.

Our baby universe comes under scrutiny in the latest episode of "Ask A Spaceman", which airs on Facebook Watch today (Aug. 22).

Astronomers have measured the mass of a very young alien planet for the first time, using the European Space Agency's Gaia and Hipparcos star-mapping spacecraft.

Recent satellite imagery shows the United States West Coast "shrouded in smoke" erupting from 110 large fires across the area, according to NASA.

Vice President Mike Pence will take the stage on Thursday, Aug. 23, to offer an update on the Trump administration's plans for human spaceflight.

In recent years, the number of confirmed extra-solar planets has risen exponentially. As of the penning of the article, a total of 3,777 exoplanets have been confirmed in 2,817 star systems, with an additional 2,737 cand...

Babies grow up fast, in the blink of an eye, and thus their parents wish to record their growth without missing any moment. This is true not only for human babies but also for baby stars, called protostars, although the ...

Hurricane Lane continued to show a large eye surrounded by powerful storms....

RUDN astrophysicists have suggested an approach to simplify calculations of observable effects in the vicinity of black holes to which the mathematical apparatus of Einstein's classic relativity theory does not apply. Th...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a telescope array that peers through stardust to see planetary systems under construction.