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Technology image of the week: A test version of the main ExoMars 2020 parachute being heat treated in an ESA oven to make it sterile enough for the Red Planet

A new image from the venerable Hubble Space Telescope shows what happens when two galaxies collide -- an experience our own Milky Way will have in a few billion years.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Mercury shares its orbit with a ring of wandering dust, and a cloud of as-yet-undiscovered asteroids likely gave rise to a similar ring in Venus' neighborhood, recent research suggests.

The New Horizons team has released new images that take advantage of the "binocular effect" to create 3D impressions of Ultima Thule. The post Now You Can See MU69 in Thrilling 3D appeared first on Universe Today.

Astronomers keep trying to measure the mass of the Milky Way and they keep coming up with different numbers. But it’s not that they’re bad at math. Measuring the mass of something as enormous as the Milky Way is conf...

Long before weather forecasts were made using modern computer technology, ancient man looked to the sky to try and determine impending weather changes.

In late 2018, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft arrived at Bennu, the asteroid it will be studying and sampling over the next several years.

New maps that use information from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite reveal nitrogen dioxide emission being released into the atmosphere in cities and towns across the globe.

OneSpace has completed assembly and testing of its OS-M rocket in preparation for a launch at the end of March which, if successful, would make it the first Chinese private rocket firm to reach orbit. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The copper-coloured baffle cover of our Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, in the clean room at Airbus Defence and Space Spain, Madrid.

The International Space Station partners have endorsed plans to continue the development of the Gateway, an outpost around the moon that will act as a base to support both robots and astronauts exploring the lunar surfac...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory, astronomers have spotted X-ray-emitting clumps being ejected with high velocities from the gamma-ray binary PSR B1259-63/LS 2883. The findings were presented in a paper published M...

A pair of researchers, one with École Normale Supérieure, the other Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres has found evidence that Jupiter's magnetic field could be causing a jet...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

A team of experts in atomic physics, nuclear fusion, and astronomy has computed high-accuracy atomic data for analyzing light from a kilonova, a birth place of heavy elements. They found that their new data set could pre...

SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule cruised into port Saturday night, wrapping up the spacecraft's first test flight to the International Space Station. See photos here.

NASA's Mars InSight lander, which touched down in November, celebrated 100 days on Mars by watching the sun set.

Nine lucky science teams have been given the chance of a lifetime: to study moon rock samples collected by the Apollo program that have been sealed for decades.

NASA's Europa Clipper mission could receive $600 million for the fiscal year that begins in October, according to budget request documents released today (March 11) by the Trump administration.

Researchers hope an underground experiment will reveal an elusive particle.