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A partial government shutdown now nearly five weeks old is affecting a growing number of space companies and organizations as well as the agencies themselves shuttered by the lapse in funding. SpaceNews.com

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Commissioners speaking this week at the Conference on European Space Policy in Brussels said the continued reservations of European investors about financing space startups is hampering Europe's ability to keep pace with...

A new study led by Yale University astronomers tells the story of a galaxy that ran out of gas.

For some stars, their last act is a final exhalation of gases, which we call a planetary nebula. While a living being’s last breath is closely followed by death, a star can continue to shine. And that shining illuminat...

Blue Origin has released a new video of its proposed New Glenn launch vehicle, which will allow the company to send heavy payloads to space in the near future. The post Blue Origin has Shown off a New Video of its New Gl...

Data recorded by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory of a neutron star as it passed through a dense patch of stellar wind emanating from its massive companion star provide valuable insight about the structure and compositio...

Using the ALMA observatory in Chile, a group of astronomers led by MPIA's Henrik Beuther has made the most detailed observation yet of the way that a giant gas cloud fragments into dense cores, which then act as the birt...

NASA's Opportunity rover is silently marking the 15th anniversary of its touchdown on Mars.

Inspired by a galaxy not so far away...

A partial government shutdown now nearly five weeks old is affecting a growing number of space companies and organizations as well as the agencies themselves shuttered by the lapse in funding.

A planetary nebula -- the remains of a giant star that has tossed away its outer layers -- glows in this stunning new image released by the European Southern Observatory.

Nancy Lee Carlson has again filed a lawsuit against NASA, this time claiming the space agency damaged and improperly retained lunar material from an Apollo 11 moon rock collection bag that she previously sued over.

The long-ago giant impact that led to the formation of Earth's moon also helped make life as we know it possible on our planet, a new study suggests.

Europe is preparing to go forward to the moon, but how will astronauts move once they get there? Despite the Apollo missions, little is known about what lunar gravity may mean for our bodies. ESA's space medicine team is...

Developing the most efficient and safest way to return to the Moon starts on Earth. European astronauts and spacewalk experts are getting ready for the future of Moon exploration with electronic aids, upgraded geological...

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It has taken researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias almost three years to produce the deepest image of the universe ever taken from space, by recovering a large quantity of "lost" light around the large...

Every year, NASA honors the people it has lost with a ceremony called the Day of Remembrance -- but this year's event is postponed indefinitely because the federal government remains shut down.

The founder of Virgin Galactic says he now expects to fly on the company's SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle around the middle of this year after a series of test flights starting in the next several weeks. SpaceNews.com

Wow. Sunday night's total lunar eclipse offered an amazing view, and for a few astute observers, a little surprise.

Elon Musk indicates that the SpaceX Starhopper has been damaged after being toppled in 50 mile-per-hour winds. This will take a few weeks to repair.