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There's a galaxy not too far from our own that astronomers were very sure was shaped like an X, but a new, clearer radio telescope image shows that the galaxy is more like a stretched-out blob.

Welcome to the early solar system. Just after the planets formed more than 4.5 billion years ago, our cosmic neighborhood was a chaotic place. Waves of comets, asteroids and even proto-planets streamed toward the inner s...

Blue Origin filed a "pre-award" protest with the GAO, arguing that the rules set by the Air Force do not allow for a fair and open competition. SpaceNews.com

When SpaceIL’s Beresheet lander crashed into the Moon, it was a bitter-sweet moment for Israel’s space exploration aspirations. The privately-built spacecraft was punching above its weight class by proceeding on its ...

The International Space Station is the setting today for a student competition to control tiny, free-floating satellites aboard the orbiting lab....

An international team of astronomers led by the University of Tokyo used ALMA to view 39 previously-undiscovered ancient galaxies. The post Astronomers Uncover Dozens of Previously Unknown Ancient and Massive Galaxies ap...

A team of four NASA spacecraft finally caught sight of a phenomenon scientists have been hunting for years: an interplanetary shock.

It’s that time again! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

Europe's Rosetta spacecraft wasn't the only object circling Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko back in 2015.

Tonight, Aug. 12, Uranus will reverse direction and begin a westward, retrograde loop that will last into mid-January, 2020.

The deployer, still under development, is Mecano ID's first smallsat product, Didier Zely, manager of Mecano ID's deployment systems product line, said by email. SpaceNews.com

A cloaked black hole found lurking behind a cloud of gas dates to the early cosmic years of the universe.

The European Space Agency said Aug. 12 that another test of the parachutes that will be used on the ExoMars 2020 lander mission failed last week, putting the schedule of the mission into jeopardy. SpaceNews.com

The Milky Way lights up an orbital night pass as the International Space Station orbited 257 miles above the Coral Sea in between Australia and Papua New Guinea. The atmospheric glow highlights Earth's limb below....

The pair of strange, luminescent creatures at play in this image are actually galaxies -- realms of millions upon millions of stars....

How do galaxies such as our Milky Way come into existence?...

Dark matter, which researchers believe make up about 80% of the universe's mass, is one of the most elusive mysteries in modern physics....

Neutron stars are not only the most dense objects in the Universe, but they rotate very fast and regularly. Until they don't.

Infinite Space. Infinite Terror. Infinite chances for a remake.

Chinese private firm Linkspace has performed its most ambitious launch and landing test so far amid a flurry of activity in the commercial launch vehicle sector. SpaceNews.com

Space Science Image of the Week: Unusually large chunk of debris orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko spotted in Rosetta imagery

Stars greater than eight solar-masses end their lives spectacularly--as supernovae. These single-star supernovae are called core collapse supernovae because when their dense cores (at this stage composed primarily of iro...