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Parker Solar Probe is alive and well after skimming by the Sun at just 15 million miles from our star's surface....

NASA's commercial partner Northrop Grumman is scheduled to launch its Antares rocket, carrying the Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station, at 4:49 a.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 15. The launch, as well as br...

According to Musk's latest update, SpaceX will be conducting a test flight of their BFR system next year using a miniature version of the spacecraft. The post SpaceX is going to build a mini-BFR to launch on a Falcon 9 a...

Thanks to a team from John Hopkins University, a star was recently discovered that is 13.5 billion years old, almost as old as the Universe itself! The post Ancient Star Found that’s Only Slightly Younger than the Univ...

A U.S. astronaut said Friday she has no qualms about riding a Russian rocket next month despite back-to-back mishaps.

Scientists have created the soundtrack of the 5,000th Mars sunrise captured by the robotic exploration rover, Opportunity, using data sonification techniques to create a two-minute piece of music.

NASA's efforts to restore its Apollo-era Mission Control has given new meaning to "We're go, Flight!" The call, which 50 years ago was in reference to the flight director, could now also apply to the consoles that flew a...

The Sun dominates our Solar System, sending colossal amounts of energetic material in every direction, causing ever-changing 'space weather'. Find out more with ESA Web TV.

Our week through the lens: 5-9 November 2018

The availability of today's wealth of satellite data along with the latest digital technologies offer opportunities like never before. ESA's Φ-week on 12-16 November explores this and more. Follow live

Curling snow drifts are magnified by the terrain around the 1,400 mile Dnieper River, flowing from Russia to the Black Sea.

Parker Solar Probe is alive and well after skimming by the sun at just 15 million miles from our star's surface. This is far closer than any spacecraft has ever gone--the previous record was set by Helios B in 1976 and b...

In 2017, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope played a pivotal role in two important breakthroughs occurring just five weeks apart. But what might seem like extraordinary good luck is really the product of research, an...

European astronaut Alexander Gerst was surprised to see a circular, rainbow-like gleam -- a phenomenon known as a glory -- in the clouds below the International Space Station on Sept. 14, 2018.

SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket can now launch NASA's most expensive and highest-priority science missions.

Natalya Bailey was always interested in space, but it wasn't until she was sitting in a university class on propulsion that she realized what she wanted to do with her life.

On the sidelines at European Space Weather Week 2018, in Leuven, Belgium, ESA Web TV caught up with two experts working on the fascinating science of how our Sun's raging activity affects Earth and, ultimately, the infra...

This image shows dramatic dark areas in the Sun's corona and was acquired by the SWAP instrument on ESA's Proba-2 mission at midday on Wednesday, 7 November.

Early morning risers who head out to work and school before sunrise should notice a very bright, star-like object in the east-southeast sky.

A purple-pigmented molecule could have been the first to turn sunlight into metabolic energy.

Vega, historically one of the most-studied stars, is under scrutiny in modern times because it may have planets.

NASA has certified SpaceX's Falcon 9 to launch the agency's most important science missions, giving the agency new options that could result in lower costs. SpaceNews.com