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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by an astonishing mass of gas. The star, called 49 Ceti, is 40 million years old and conventional theories of planet...

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have investigated one of the Milky Way's globular clusters, Messier 80. The new study concentrated on peculiar kinematics of Messier ...

NASA's quest to return humans to the moon could boost a field of research that might not seem particularly lunar in nature: cosmology.

Gamma-ray bursts are even worse than we thought.

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The launch will be the third ever for the Long March 5, and the first since a July 2017 liftoff ended in failure.

Retired general Paul Selva, former DoD official Kathleen Hicks and former NASA official Dava Newman were elected to the Aerospace board of trustees SpaceNews.com

Mitsubishi Electric said Dec. 22 that it will build the Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-2 as prime contractor for JAXA. The satellite is scheduled to launch on a Japanese Epsilon rocket by the end of March ...

In 2019, NASA celebrated the 50th anniversary of the agency's Apollo 11 Moon landing, the most historic moment in space exploration, while also making significant progress toward putting the first woman and next man on t...

Boeing announced the resignation of CEO Dennis Muilenburg today (Dec. 23), one day after Starliner capped its truncated debut flight with a picture-perfect landing at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

One astronaut on the International Space Station celebrated Hanukkah yesterday with some colorful accessories.

As NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine aptly said: "this is, in fact, why we test." SpaceNews.com

Ready for the final ‘Ring of Fire’ solar eclipse of 2019? The final eclipse of the year kicks off this week on Wednesday, early on December 26th the day after Christmas, with an annular solar eclipse spanning the Ind...

"Help, Will Robinson," a special robot says at the end of the latest trailer for the second season of Netflix's "Lost in Space," which premieres tomorrow (Dec. 24).

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By probing close-in worlds, the discovery will help astronomers better understand how planets form and evolve --

For the last decade or more, Muggles around the world have been busy designing and perfecting a similar device called a coronagraph.

The deaf community risks being excluded from aspects of modern science because the number of new advances is outpacing the development of sign language to explain them, a leading researcher says.

Twin stars appear to share chemical "DNA" that could help scientists map the history of the Milky Way galaxy, according to new research by astronomer Keith Hawkins of The University of Texas at Austin accepted for public...

A cubesat launched Dec. 18 is testing hardware from French component makers jockeying for smallsat constellation work. SpaceNews.com

Do supermassive black holes have friends? The nature of galaxy formation suggests that the answer is yes, and in fact, pairs of supermassive black holes should be common in the universe.

Perhaps nobody was more excited to see Boeing's first Starliner spacecraft touch down safely yesterday than Mike Fincke, Nicole Mann and Chris Ferguson.