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A remote outback station about 800km north of Perth in Western Australia is one of the best places in the world to operate telescopes that listen for radio signals from space.

These pyramids in Peru are older than the ones in Egypt, and predate the Incan Empire by roughly 4,000 years.

The narrow galaxy elegantly curving around its spherical companion in this image is a fantastic example of a truly strange and very rare phenomenon. This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts GAL...

Christchurch, New Zealand (far right), Lake Ellesmere and Pigeon Bay are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited above the Tasman Sea just south of the island nation....

Companies that competed earlier this year for Space Development Agency satellite contracts awarded to L3Harris and SpaceX were asked to resubmit their proposals following several protests. SpaceNews

We'll apparently see one more big private spaceflight milestone before 2020 is done.

China has recovered the lunar samples collected by the daring Chang'e 5 mission and now work is underway to get the materials to the laboratory for science -- and for sharing.

The International Space Station is now sporting a shiny new piece of hardware.

The International Space Station cost more than $100 billion. A ham radio set can be had for a few hundred bucks.

Voyager Space Holdings, a company that has acquired several space ventures, is taking a majority stake in commercial space station company Nanoracks, the two firms announced Dec. 23. SpaceNews

There's a powerful scene in the movie "Contact" (one of my favs) where lead character Ellie Arroway is sitting among an array of telescopes and hears the first alien signal – an ominous pulse – received by humanity. ...

The ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope will launch soon. Once it’s deployed, and in position at the Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 2, it’ll begin work. One of its jobs is to examine the atmospheres of exoplanets and...

In the days after Disney Plus wrapped up the second season of "The Mandalorian," Lego is offering some special Force-themed activities for the holidays.

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China, one from Italy and one from Iceland has used a machine-learning artificial intelligence application to count and note the location of over 100,000 crat...

Satisfying congressional demands for a revamped space acquisition process will now fall on President-elect Joe Biden's Pentagon team. SpaceNews

Using NASA's Chandra spacecraft, astronomers have performed high-resolution X-ray spectroscopic observations of a transient black hole X-ray binary known as GRS 1915+105. They report that the source exhibits a variable m...

Our year through the lens: a selection of our favourite images for 2020 Our year through the lens: a selection of our favourite images for 2020

Deck the halls with space-based bubbles!

Commander Musilova reflects on what was key for the Sensoria M3 crew to complete their analog mission on the moon successfully, while facing a number of challenges at the HI-SEAS habitat.

The design of the first U.S. coin to honor a teacher has been formally unveiled, showing the first educator to launch towards space.

The European Space Agency's Clean Space initiative is assisting in the development of satellite components that are designed for demise, an approach to satellite development that advocates for the safe disposal of spacec...

Sometimes in astronomy the acronym for a project fits it particularly well. That would absolutely be the case for the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection, who hopes to scale up to a size of 200,000 sq km in an effor...