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The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is one of our nearest galactic neighbors, at only 163,000 light years from Earth. With its sibling the Small Magellanic Cloud, these are among the nearest dwarf satellite galaxies to t...

It's always nice to see old friends, and NASA's asteroid-monitoring team has a busy schedule this weekend (Sept. 13 and 14) doing just that.

As operators of Earth observation satellites prepare to update their fleets, with an emphasis on both improved resolution and revisit time, they disagree on how much demand there is for existing and new data. SpaceNews.c...

The full moon of September 2019 is poised to provide some eerie atmosphere.

Astronomers took the first multicolor images of a potentially interstellar comet, and it looks spectacular.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted a plume of red dirt billowing into the sky near the planet's north pole in May.

The first-ever comet from beyond our Solar System has been successfully imaged by the Gemini Observatory in multiple colors. The image of the newly discovered object, denoted C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), was obtained on the nigh...

Astronomers with NASA and the ESA have confirmed that an object that could be interstellar in origin (like 'Oumuamua) is passing through the Solar System, the second object to do so in just two years. The post Oumuamua 2...

The “fluke” find of a possible visitor from another star after the 2017 discovery of ‘Oumuamua offers thrilling scientific opportunities --

Scientists have discovered that a mysterious pressure dubbed "dark energy" makes up about 68% of the total energy content of the cosmos, but so far we don't know much more about it. Exploring the nature of dark energy is...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

As ESA's second ɸ-week has drawn to a close, let's take a look at some of the highlights

Kepler Communications is reviewing the architecture for its internet-of-things constellation in response to SpaceX's plan to revise the architecture of its Starlink constellation. SpaceNews.com

This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, focuses on an object named UGC 695, which is located 30 million light-years away within the constellation Cetus (the Sea Monster), also known as the Whale. A bo...

NASA has awarded a $13.7 million contract to Advanced Space of Boulder, Colorado, to develop and operate a CubeSat mission to the same lunar orbit targeted for Gateway - an orbiting outpost astronauts will visit before d...

Meet AstroGnat our new crew member! She's on a voyage of discovery in space and you too can explore this new AstroGnat collection for kids in the ESA Space Shop.

Earth imaging startup Satellogic has signed an agreement with a Chinese company that will give it access to its fleet of satellites for imaging a Chinese province. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

I'd be running, too.

NASA is currently conducting a two-week ground test on Bigelow Aerospace's B330 habitat here at the company's headquarters, assessing the module's suitability as a deep-space astronaut abode.

Something's disrupting the distant black hole's accretion disk, but no one knows what it is.

Engineers took NASA's Mars 2020 for a spin on Aug. 29, 2019. The 2,300-pound (1,040-kilogram) Martian vehicle was rotated clockwise and counterclockwise at about 1 revolution per minute on what is called a spin table in ...