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Images from the Rosetta spacecraft provide the first clear link between a comet's outbursts and changes upon the comet's surface

The Swift telescope has charted a star's plunge into a supermassive black hole at the core of a distant galaxy

 New funding will help the HERA observatory to peer deeper into the cosmic past than ever before

Bubbles of nitrogen gas may explain strange shape-shifting “magic islands” in the hydrocarbon seas of Saturn's largest moon

A new study finds the mysterious substance was at most a minor constituent of large galaxies in the early universe

New research suggests parts of the subsurface ocean are covered by as little as two kilometers of ice

The Obama-era Asteroid Redirect Mission is one of several casualties of the $19.1-billion budget request

NASA officials are considering taking part in the upcoming Russian Venera D mission

 A white dwarf star in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae circles a black hole twice per hour

The planet-hunting observatory stared at the TRAPPIST-1 system for nearly three months

The station's Cold Atom Laboratory will reach temperatures just a billionth of a degree above absolute zero

Geologically young deposits in a crater on the dwarf planet's surface were formed by brine erupting from below

New maps of galactic magnetic fields will enhance the study of stellar birth

The private launch company must overcome several hurdles to meet its aggressive schedule for an ambitious lunar mission

Although it won't launch until the 2020s, the spacecraft's key components are being designed right now

Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider reveal subtle distinctions in how matter and antimatter decay

Two private citizens have already paid a "significant deposit" to reserve seats on the spaceflight company's nascent Falcon Heavy rocket

An international group of astronomers is set to codify a crop of informal names for the dwarf planet's geographical features

The space agency is considering adding astronauts to the first lunar voyage of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule

A proposed new definition for what constitutes a "planet" could reinstate the demoted icy world

Images of an exploding dying star taken just a few hours after its detonation are revealing new details of stellar death

North Korea has always talked the talk, and now it seems to be walking the walk as never before

The newfound structures in disks of dust and gas around newborn stars could aid planet formation

The gas giant planet took shape within 4 million years of our solar system's formation