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A large volcanic event was detected on Jupiter's moon Io using Jovian sodium nebula brightness variation, a new paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters said.

"Moon of Israel" is an epic 1924 film from the golden era of silent movies, and helped launch the directing career of Michael Curtiz, of "Casablanca" fame. Sequels seldom live up to the original. But if Israel's plans to...

The Orion Nebula is one of the most observed and photographed objects in the night sky. At a distance of 1350 light years away, it’s the closest active star-forming region to Earth. This diffuse nebula is also known as...

NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC (ULS) of Centennial, Colorado, to provide launch services for the agency's first-ever mission to explore Trojan asteroids.

A clever use of non-science engineering data from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has let a team of researchers, including an Arizona State University graduate student, measure the density of rock layers in 96-mile-wide Gale...

SpaceX's giant Falcon Heavy rocket could take to the skies five weeks from now, if everything goes according to plan.

As space commerce evolves to include new types of assets and activities, insurance continues to be an essential part of the financing for any commercial space venture and acts as the due diligence agent of technology. Sp...

Staring into the Darkness The expansion of our universe is accelerating. Every single day, the distances between galaxies grows ever greater. And what’s more, that expansion rate is getting faster and faster – that�...

Captured from the platform of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, this image shows four moveable, 1.8-meter auxiliary telescopes ope...

Scientists have been searching for "dark matter" - an unknown and invisible substance thought to make up the vast majority of matter in the universe - for nearly a century. The reason for this persistence is that dark ma...

In the appropriations bill that Congress passed in September to fund the Defense Department for 2019, lawmakers gave the Pentagon what it asked for: $8.1 billion for investments in space systems. SpaceNews.com

From the International Space Station's orbit about 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth, crewmembers enjoy unique -- and stunning -- views of our home planet, as new footage from the station shows once again.

Hubble discovers a new galaxy in our cosmic backyard

For the past six years, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has been part of an international effort to create an unprecedented survey of distant galaxies and better understand the nature of dark energy--the mysterious...

China's lunar lander has woken from a freezing fortnight-long hibernation to find night-time temperatures on the moon's dark side are colder than previously thought, the national space agency said Thursday.

A side view of ESA's Solar Orbiter as it entered a vacuum chamber for thermal vacuum testing at the IABG test facility in Ottobrunn, Germany, last month.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning new view of a spiral galaxy that wandered too close to the massive Coma galaxy cluster and is being stripped of its gas.

Writer Michael Moreci talks about how his and artist Hayden Sherman's series is seguing from limited series to ongoing.

Earth's magnetic field nearly collapsed about 565 million years ago, but the planet's core froze solid and saved it in the nick of time, a new study suggests.

To celebrate 20 years of the Force being with Lego Star Wars fans, the Lego Group has designed five new special-edition sets featuring ships from all over the galaxy.

The agreement, for an unspecified number of launches and satellites, makes Telesat the fifth customer to sign up to use the reusable launcher, which is slated for a maiden flight in 2021. SpaceNews.com

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