SPACE

European Southern Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope is being built close to the Paranal Observatory in northern Chile.

One of the photos was captured by Astrophotographer Thierry Legault during the solar eclipse of Jan. 4, 2011.

Humans settling Mars or living in a space colony might evolve into a new species much faster than they would have on Earth, assuming they can avoid the dangers of inbreeding.

Each of them builds their own rockets, satellites and scientific payloads and has either achieved human spaceflight or interplanetary robotic science missions, or both.

On three days in June and July, scientists will train their telescopes and cameras on a small object over 4 billion miles away, as it passes in front of different stars.

A star suffered an epic fail when it quietly collapsed into a black hole instead of exploding in a brilliant supernova.

A new telescope is trained on the moon to capture meteors crashing as part of an effort to understand asteroids and other space rocks that could strike Earth.

The spacecraft made its first close pass of Jupiter Aug. 27, 2016, and findings based on the analysis of data collected were made public Thursday.

The galaxies formed less than one billion years after the Big Bang and could explain the existence of massive galaxies in the early universe.

Called Psyche, the mission to study a unique asteroid of the same name in the main asteroid belt was originally scheduled for a 2023 launch.

It happens once in about 15 Earth years but was observed by the Cassini spacecraft, which has been in the gas giant’s vicinity since 2004.

A couple of average Joes helped scientists find a supernova, an exploding star so bright that it casts light upon the universe and shows us the answers to its biggest mysteries.

NASA launched some student-designed Mars rover robots into space on a rocket to see how well they would travel in Earth’s atmosphere.

A new bright spot scientists just saw in a powerful galaxy might be a rare type of supernova explosion or it could be a supermassive black hole that just ate a delicious meal.

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Called synestia, it would be a huge and spinning mass shaped like a donut and made up of rock so hot, it would exist almost entirely as vapor.

Until now there’s been a lot of inferring involved in figuring how galaxies form.

The sperm successfully created healthy offspring after surviving nine months on the International Space Station.

New Zealand is hoping to send a rocket into space every week, carrying satellites into low-Earth orbit and joining the other countries that have launched into the atmosphere.

Are we to believe that NASA spends years and billions on planet exploration probes only to equip them with low res cameras and no video?

Images of the ring around Fomalhaut — a 440-million-years-old star about 25 light-years from Earth — were captured using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.