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Image: The Maldives are featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

NASA plans to issue multiple contracts in the coming months for smallsat launch services in the second phase of a program intended to support the emerging small launch vehicle industry. SpaceNews.com

A brilliant blue star has disappeared from view, which could mean it became a black hole in a novel way. The post Astronomers Might Have Seen a Star Just Disappear. Turning Straight to a Black Hole Without a Supernova ap...

Astronomers created a stunning new image showing celestial fireworks in star cluster G286.21+0.17....

If DARPA exercises all options, the contract awarded to Blue Canyon Technologies has a potential value of $99.4 million. SpaceNews

The Full Buck moon of July 2020 will experience a minor penumbral lunar eclipse this weekend (July 4 and 5), but don't expect much.

In our continuing search for other life in the universe, one place has always looked promising--Mars. It is a rocky planet like Earth, orbiting the same star, and at a distance where water could have been present on the ...

Figuring out how much energy permeates the center of the Milky Way--a discovery reported in the July 3 edition of the journal Science Advances--could yield new clues to the fundamental source of our galaxy's power, said ...

Following the financial commitment from ESA Member States at last November's Council at Ministerial Level Space19+, ESA's industrial policy committee has approved contracts totalling €2.55 billion to forward the develo...

One of the universe's strangest stars is thought to form when a neutron star gets sucked into a red supergiant. But despite 45 years of searching, astronomers still aren't sure they've ever found one.

Compared with our own planet Earth, Mars might seem like a "dead" planet, but even there, the wind blows and the ground moves. On Earth, we study the ambient seismic noise rippling mainly due to ocean activity to peek un...

Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new breakthrough has been achieved with, for the first time, the detection directly from the ground of an extrasolar system of this type....

Two recent studies based on ESA's Mars Express observations of Jezero crater have shed light on how and when this intriguing area formed - and identified the regions most likely to reveal signs of ancient life....

Video: 00:03:39 In this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme, we explore the Maldives with Copernicus Sentinel-2. See also Ari Atoll, Maldives to download the image.

The massive star that exploded to form the supernova known as Cassiopeia A most likely had a companion star that has yet to be spotted, a spectroscopic analysis by RIKEN astrophysicists suggests. This will provide fresh ...

We love flyover videos from other worlds. These stunning videos, created from imagery gathered by orbiting spacecraft, can give us a sense of what it would be like to fly in an airplane on another planet. This latest fly...

The four winners of ESA's Startup competition are using space to solve problems on Earth. Each startup company presented their business proposals to delegates online at ESA's Industrial Policy Committee meeting on 29 Jun...

Week in images: 29 June - 3 July 2020 Discover our week through the lens

At first sight, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope portrays the sparkling stars of AGC111977, a dwarf galaxy located around 15 million light years away and visible in the lower left part of the image. Ot...

(Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) By determining how much energy permeates the center of the Milky Way, researchers have moved closer to understanding the power behind our galaxy.

Every year since 2012, Mars City Design hosts the Mars Feast Gala, where talented chefs create tantalizing entrees based on what future generations could grow on Mars. The post Behold! The Martian Menu, Courtesy of Mars ...