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With research on extraterrestrial life continuing across the world, a noted researcher from the SETI Institute launched a new tool to help researchers keep track of results.

The Air Force awarded a $462 million contract to Lockheed Martin to continue the modernization of the GPS ground control system. SpaceNews.com

On 25 December 2003, ESA's Mars Express entered orbit around the Red Planet. The spacecraft began returning the first images from orbit using its High Resolution Stereo Camera just a couple of weeks later, and over the c...

The advisory group for the National Space Council is looking at ways that NASA's human exploration plans can also support space science, while acknowledging the lack of representation of the scientific community in the g...

Despite a recent problem with one of its instruments, managers of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are confident that the mission can continue to operate well into the next decade. SpaceNews.com

How old are each of the stars in our roughly 13-billion-year-old galaxy? A new technique for understanding the star-forming history of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail makes it possible to determine the ages of star...

Many stars explode as luminous supernovae when, swollen with age, they run out of fuel for nuclear fusion. But some stars can go supernova simply because they have a close and pesky companion star that, one day, perturbs...

Thales Alenia Space said Jan. 10 it received a contract from the European Space Agency worth approximately 150 million euros ($172.4 million) to build the Fluorescent Explorer satellite. SpaceNews.com

Look at a galaxy, what do you see? Probably lots of stars. Nebulae too. And that’s probably it. A whole bunch of stars and gas in a variety of colorful assortments; a delight to the eye. And buried among those stars, i...

It looks like something out of a science fiction movie but it's reality. SpaceX has released a series of images for its upcoming, and first, Crew Dragon spacecraft mission as it was moved to the launchpad....

NASA confirmed Jan. 10 that an uncrewed test flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft will now take place no sooner than February, due at least in part to the ongoing government shutdown. SpaceNews.com

NASA still hasn't launched its new James Webb Space Telescope, but the agency is already preparing for an even bigger and better space observatory to succeed it.

The Hayabusa2 probe will swoop down to the 3,000-foot-wide (900 meters) asteroid Ryugu's surface for the first time during the week of Feb. 18.

A weirdly bright and brief blast dubbed "The Cow," which researchers first spotted last June, was likely generated by a newborn black hole or superdense stellar corpse called a neutron star, a new study reports.

The annals of science fiction are full of visions of the future. Some are techno-utopian like "Star Trek" in which humanity has joined together in peace to explore the cosmos. Others are dystopian, like the World State i...

While snow continues to cause chaos in Austria and Germany, the cold snap has also reached Turkey as shown in this Copernicus Sentinel-3 image

A Japanese research group has identified a giant streak structure among the clouds covering planet Venus based on observation from the spacecraft Akatsuki. The team also revealed the origins of this structure using large...

The latest taxi test of the giant aircraft being developed by Stratolaunch for its air-launch system is a sign the plane's first flight may take place soon. SpaceNews.com

A ricocheting jet blasting from a giant black hole has been captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, as reported in our latest press release. In this composite image of Cygnus A, X-rays from Chandra (red, green, and...

This month's rare total eclipse will be the last one visible from the United States until 2022.

The first ever images taken from the surface of the far side of the moon have been released following the Chinese National Space Administration's (CNSA) successful landing there. The lander Chang'e 4 and rover Yutu 2 fol...

Galaxies come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Some of the most significant differences among galaxies, however, relate to where and how they form new stars. Compelling research to explain these differences has bee...