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New research undertaken at Northumbria University, Newcastle shows that the sun's magnetic waves behave differently than currently believed.

ESA's Gaia satellite has looked beyond our Galaxy and explored two nearby galaxies to reveal the stellar motions within them and how they will one day interact and collide with the Milky Way - with surprising results.

NASA invites media to its headquarters in Washington Thursday, Feb. 14, to learn more about agency partnership opportunities with American companies to develop reusable systems that can land astronauts on the Moon.

ESA's Gaia satellite has looked beyond our Galaxy and explored two nearby galaxies to reveal the stellar motions within them and how they will one day interact and collide with the Milky Way - with surprising results.

The results are rolling in from Caltech's newest state-of-the-art sky-surveying camera, which began operations at the Palomar Observatory in March 2018. Called the Zwicky Transient Facility, or ZTF, the new instrument ha...

New ALMA observations show there is ordinary table salt in a not-so-ordinary location: 1,500 light-years from Earth in the disk surrounding a massive young star. Though salts have been found in the atmospheres of old, dy...

A Japanese asteroid probe will snag samples of its target space rock just two weeks from now, if all goes according to plan.

What does a star feel like? A team of scientists put astronomy on a vibrating sound stage in order to tackle such questions.

During its routine yearly monitoring of the weather on our solar system's outer planets, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new mysterious dark storm on Neptune and provided a fresh look at a long-lived storm ...

Operations image of the week: How not to lose a deep-space explorer? ESA uses a 'stellar' navigation technique relying on one of the Universe's most powerful energy sources

Honeywell Aerospace is preparing to formally open its Space Division Greenhouse, an incubator focused on slashing the cost and time required to produce optical intersatellite links and other spacecraft components. SpaceN...

The ExoMars rover that will search for the building blocks of life on the Red Planet has a name: Rosalind Franklin. The prominent scientist behind the discovery of the structure of DNA will have her symbolic footprint on...

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This 'mirror module' - formed of 140 industrial silicon mirror plates, stacked together by a sophisticated robotic system - is destined to form part of the optical system of ESA's Athena X-ray observatory.

Developers of small launch vehicles, who have promoted their vehicles as providing dedicated access to space for small satellites, say they're also open to flying rideshare missions as they face competition from larger r...

The Kepler Space Telescope found thousands of planets around other stars by documenting their telltale flickers before it ran out of fuel last fall -- and a newly released image shows the spacecraft's full field of view ...

For the first time, an expedition climbed Fuji Dome in the interior of East Antarctica using a wind-blown vehicle.

A Chinese satellite orbiting Earth's moon has been snapping some amazing images from the lunar far side, otherwise known as the "dark side of the moon."

Every year produces a handful of binocular comets, and the first one for 2019 is coming right up, with a fine apparition for Comet C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto. The post Comet Y1 Iwamoto Tops Out in February appeared first on Unive...

NASA will pay tribute today (Feb. 7) to the 17 astronauts who died in the agency's three tragedies.

In May engineers, pilots, researchers and scientists will convene in Bordeaux, France, for ESA's 71st parabolic flight campaign. Over the course of three days they will fly on a specially-fitted commercial aircraft, test...

The hybrid rocket motor that powered Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo on its first flight into space will next be used to ignite public interest in the future of spaceflight as an artifact in the Smithsonian National Air a...