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A new generation of what are known as extremely large telescopes, or ELTs, are under development and expected to enter service in the 2020s. SpaceNews.com

For the very patient advocates of space tourism, the good news is that 2019 may finally be the year that tourists get to fly on suborbital vehicles. SpaceNews.com

On Jan. 4, 2019, at 4:37 a.m. EST the CAPER-2 mission launched from the Andøya Space Center in Andenes, Norway, on a 4-stage Black Brant XII sounding rocket. Reaching an apogee of 480 miles high before splashing down in...

For the first time ever, astronomers have detected a 1.3 km radius body at the edge of the solar system. Kilometer-sized bodies like the one discovered have been predicted to exist for more than 70 years. These objects a...

What if you could visit the International Space Station, join its crew for their daily activities and even go on a spacewalk -- all without leaving your home, let alone the ground?

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Russian astronomers have identified three new luminous blue variable (LBV) candidates in the star-forming galaxy NGC 4736. While one of the three newly found candidates was confirmed to be an LBV, the nature of the remai...

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This montage of 365 images shows the changing activity of our sun through the eyes of ESA's Proba-2 satellite during 2018. The images were taken by the satellite's SWAP camera, which works at extreme ultraviolet waveleng...

We all edit our selfies to capture our best sides, and the Curiosity rover on Mars is no different, as shown in a new "selfie" NASA released to mark the rover's last days at Vera Rubin Ridge.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is orbiting an asteroid closer than any spacecraft has ever orbited a body -- and it shows in an incredible pair of photographs that the team released yesterday (Jan. 24).

There are some universal certainties. Death. Taxes. The second law of thermodynamics.

Lengthy space missions such as a journey to Mars may take a serious toll on astronauts' immune systems, a recent study suggests.

NASA is making a new, and perhaps final, attempt to restore contact with the Mars rover Opportunity, which has not communicated with the Earth for more than six months. SpaceNews.com

Space Science Image of the Week: Look back at the activity of our Sun over the last year thanks to the continuous monitoring of Proba-2

A new video from SpaceX, unveiled via Twitter Friday (Jan. 25), offers a glimpse of what NASA astronauts will see when they board a Crew Dragon spacecraft.

A new scan of an International Space Station module shows several hundred impact craters from "marauding" debris, according to the European Space Agency. But so far, the hull of the European Columbus science laboratory i...

One of the Hubble Space Telescope's most famous images peered even deeper into the cosmos than scientists had thought.

To paraphrase the words spoken by Buzz Aldrin when he first set foot on the moon, the new trailer for "Apollo 11" is "magnificent resolution." The video offers a glimpse of the never-before-seen footage from the historic...

(University of Hawaii at Manoa) The University of Hawai'i at Manoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA), in conjunction with the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, is releasing the second edition ...

(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) For the first time ever, astronomers have detected a 1.3 km radius body at the edge of the solar system. Kilometer-sized bodies like the one discovered have been predicted to exi...