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Using European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have investigated the galaxy NGC 1365. The study, presented in a paper published January 18 on the arXiv.org pre-print server, reveals essenti...

Since it was first detected hurling through our solar system, the interstellar object known as 'Oumuamua has been a source of immense scientific interest. Aside from being extrasolar in origin, the fact that it has manag...

ESA's planet-defending Hera mission will set a new record in space. The asteroid investigator will not only be the first spacecraft to explore a binary asteroid system - the Didymos pair - but the smaller of these two wo...

For the past several weeks, NASA's InSight lander has been making adjustments to the seismometer it set on the Martian surface on Dec. 19. Now it's reached another milestone by placing a domed shield over the seismometer...

Last year's poor harvest of five commercial orders for large geostationary communications satellites proved even worse than 2017's surprise low of just seven orders. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

SpaceX test-fired the flight version of its new Raptor rocket engine for the first time yesterday (Feb. 3), company founder and CEO Elon Musk announced.

Architectural students working with the European Space Agency have created a new concept for a sustainable lunar habitat.

ESA's planet-defending Hera mission will set a new record in space....

The Milky Way galaxy's disk of stars is anything but stable and flat. Instead, it becomes increasingly warped and twisted far away from the Milky Way's center, according to astronomers from National Astronomical Observat...

hough all ESA astronauts are back on Earth, European science on the International Space Station is ongoing. Explore a few experiments underway right now in celebration of science at ESA.

ALMA (Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array): Astronomers using ALMA have detected various complex organic molecules around the young star V883 Ori. A sudden outburst from this star is releasing molecules from the...

This intricate structure of an ancient river delta once carried liquid water across the surface of Mars.

SpaceX test-fired Feb. 3 the first flight version of the Raptor engine the company has developed for its next-generation launch system. SpaceNews.com

Cultured human lung, heart and kidney cells flying aboard the International Space Station could reveal much about aging and disease --

Between March 2015 and March 2016, a man spent a total of 357 hours being poked and prodded: sacrificing blood and urine, sweating through sprints and letting others read his journals -- oh, and living on the Internation...

Celestial sights rival Manhattan's lights in a gorgeous skywatcher photo.

When the U.S. government partially shut down in December, furloughing almost all NASA employees for 35 days, missed paychecks and stalled science weren't the only issues NASA had to worry about. The shutdown also threate...

Far beyond our sun, astronomers have discovered comets bombarding a young solar-type star—and possibly its inner planets --

Scientists peering at an alien solar system have spotted a pair of planets so different that their traits may be evidence of a massive collision.

A new Amazon advertisement shows twin astronaut brothers Scott Kelly and Mark Kelly accidentally causing worldwide power blips in an event nicknamed "The Incident."

If you could put anything on the moon to represent you and your community, what would you choose?