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At the end of its life, a red supergiant star explodes in a hydrogen-rich supernova. By comparing observation results to simulation models, an international research team found that in many cases this explosion takes pla...

The long-lived international Cassini mission has revealed a surprising feature emerging at Saturn's northern pole as it nears summertime: a warming, high-altitude vortex with a hexagonal shape, akin to the famous hexagon...

NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), a mission to measure the changing height of Earth's ice, is scheduled to launch Saturday, Sept. 15, with a 40-minute window opening at 8:46 a.m. EDT (5:46 a.m....

European rocket builder ArianeGroup, the company leading development and production of the Ariane 5 and upcoming Ariane 6 rockets, on Sept. 4 awarded a contract to a Swedish supplier for a reusable engine program. SpaceN...

The new chairman of a commercial space industry group says addressing growing demands for airspace, and conflicts with commercial aviation, will be a major priority for him. SpaceNews.com

A parachute system that's designed to land spacecraft on Mars will be tested this week off Virginia's coast.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Zain Husain at the Brownspaceman.com blog.

The Mars Ice House is the winning design from NASA's 2015 Centennial Challenge for a 3D-printed habitat for future human settlers on Mars. See what it would be like to live in the Mars Ice House with this visual tour.

It takes just 45 seconds for a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule to depart from the International Space Station and disappear from sight in an incredible new video. SpaceX released the footage on Twitter on Aug. 31.

Two different takes on a SpaceX rocket and a second try at the space station have made it into Lego's latest review of fan-proposed toy sets. Out of the 10 projects to qualify for the review, three were modeled after rea...

A journey from zero to numbers so large, they don't have a name.

When mapping the universe, it pays to have some smart programming. Experts share how machine learning is changing the future of astronomy.

A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to observe radiation from cosmic rays in two neighbouring galaxies, showing areas of star formation and echoes of past supernovae.

At the end of its life, a red supergiant star explodes in a hydrogen-rich supernova. By comparing observation results to simulation models, an international research team found that in many cases this explosion takes pla...

This greyscale, mottled image shows a patch of the moon's surface, and features an intriguing shape towards the top of the frame. This was actually made by a spacecraft - it marks the final resting place of ESA's SMART-1...

Astronomers from the Department of Physics at the University of Tokyo discovered a dense disk of material around a young star, which may be a precursor to a planetary system. Their research could vastly improve models of...

An international group of astronomers has conducted a study of a peculiar white dwarf known as WD 1145+017 that showcases periodic transits of planetary debris. The new research, presented in a paper published August 22 ...

A new experiment in Italy will seek an unlikely particle that some scientists think could unlock the "dark sector" of our universe.

You may know your way around the night sky, but you've likely never pulled off anything like this. Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi managed to photograph all eight of the solar system's officially recognized planets in a...

In its first hundred million years, Mars could have started off close to Venus, before gravitational interactions moved it out to its present position.

Since its establishment in the 1870s, the USGS has focused on Earth. But now it's investigating what benefits may or may not exist in tapping extraterrestrial water, minerals and metals.