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Exoplanet surveys have yielded many surprises over the years, and the discovery of "disintegrating" exoplanets was one of them. These are planets that produce asymmetric shapes in the dips of the light curves seen as the...

Navigation software destined for the ExoMars 2020 mission to the Red Planet has passed a rover-based driving test at ESA's 'Mars Yard'.

Now that Sunday night's total lunar eclipse has passed into history, get ready for the two brightest planets to unite in a stunning dawn conjunction.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

As we send rovers and landers to other worlds, we have to think about the tiny microbial astronauts we’re sending along with us. In fact, NASA is so concerned about infecting other worlds that it has established the pl...

Navigation software destined for the ExoMars 2020 mission to the Red Planet has passed a rover-based driving test at ESA's 'Mars Yard'....

Using new data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, researchers believe they have solved a longstanding mystery of solar system science: the length of a day on Saturn. It's 10 hours, 33 minutes and 38 seconds....

Including the powerful ALMA into an array of telescopes for the first time, astronomers have found that the emission from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) at the center of our galaxy comes from a small...

A new method to measure the temperature of atoms during the explosive death of a star will help scientists understand the shock wave that occurs as a result of this supernova explosion. An international team of researche...

Griffin: "We think the best approach is a network of satellites in low orbit. How many, what orbit, all that is to be determined." SpaceNews.com

The ArianeGroup wants to send a scientific mission to the moon before 2025.

The only total lunar eclipse this year and next came with a supermoon bonus.

Using the Mobile Astronomical System of Telescope-Robots (MASTER), an international team of astronomers has detected a new eclipsing cataclysmic variable. The newfound object, designated MASTER OT J061451.70-272535.5, is...

"If the recasting or the characterization itself doesn't meet up with people's imagination, then we get into trouble."

The weirdly clustered orbits of some far-flung bodies in our solar system can be explained without invoking a big, undiscovered "Planet Nine," a new study suggests.

NASA's Juno spacecraft made another pass over Jupiter's surface late last month, and the data is back -- including this stunning view of two enormous storms swirling across the gas giant.

For the first time, an animated model visualized a realistic solar flare.

The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesised by some astronomers to be shaped by an unknown ninth planet, can instead be explained by the combined gravitational force of sm...

An unusual set of celestial circumstances came together over Sunday night and the wee hours of Monday for sky watchers in Europe, Africa and the Americas, where the moon was fully obscured before lighting up again with a...

This past evening, a show-stopping celestial event crossed the sky: a total lunar eclipse.

The Super Blood Wolf Moon eclipse was a sight to behold, as these spectacular photos show.