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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* at the center of the galaxy comes from a smaller region...

Can you imagine the Solar System without Saturn’s rings? Can you envision Earth at the time the dinosaurs roamed the planet? According to a new paper, the two may have coincided. Data from the Cassini mission shows tha...

The question of how quickly the universe is expanding has been bugging astronomers for almost a century. Different studies keep coming up with different answers--which has some researchers wondering if they've overlooked...

ESA has awarded a contract to a group that includes Europe's largest launch services provider and a former Google Lunar X Prize competitor to study a concept for a mission to mine lunar regolith. SpaceNews.com

A revolutionary technique developed by an astrophysicist at Rochester Institute of Technology could allow for a better understanding of the fates of solar systems when their stars cease to shine.

After slowly forming stars for the first few billion years of their lives, the Magellanic Clouds, near neighbors of our own Milky Way galaxy, have upped their game and are now forming new stars at a fast clip. This new i...

A professional basketball player's personal connection to NASA has given rise to a new pair of sneakers.

Skywatchers wowed by the spectacular "blood moon" eclipse last night (Jan. 20) are probably asking, "When do we get an encore?"

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: The lunar eclipse at totality over Lake Maggiore

Most scientists believe the rate at which the moon and Earth have been bombarded by meteorites has remained constant for the past two to three billion years....

The United Arab Emirates will seek to encourage both investment in space ventures in the country as well as investment by domestic funds into the broader space industry. SpaceNews.com

Before the Big Bang, time may have run in reverse.

In late 2018, the Expedition 58 mission began on the International Space Station. See how astronauts, lived, laughed and worked in space in our photo gallery here!

A new video shows the latest design incarnation of Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket, which is scheduled to debut in 2021.

NASA has announced a crew change for Boeing Starliner's first crewed flight, assigning veteran astronaut Mike Fincke to the flight after Eric Boe was pulled for medical reasons.

The blood-red color of the moon during a total lunar eclipse may be difficult to explain without a basic understanding of orbital mechanics, but flat-Earthers have come up with a way to circumvent scientific facts and co...

This weekend's stunning lunar eclipse seems to have come with a little extra flash, thanks to a brilliant coincidence -- a burst of light at about the time totality began, marking the end of a meteorite's journey to the ...

(University of California - Los Angeles) How fast the universe is expanding has been puzzling astronomers for almost a century. Different studies keep coming up with different answers -- which has some researchers wonder...

(Penn State) 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.

(ESO) The faint, ephemeral glow emanating from the planetary nebula ESO 577-24 persists for only a short time -- around 10,000 years, a blink of an eye in astronomical terms. ESO's Very Large Telescope captured this shel...