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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) An MIT scientist has detected radio echoes of a black hole feeding on a star, suggesting black hole emits a jet of energy proportional to the stellar material it gobbles up.

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The return-to-flight mission will carry an experimental, 300 Gbps telecommunications satellite based on a new, large DFH-5 satellite platform. Future DFH-5's will deliver 1 terabit per second, up from the current 20 Gbps...

There might be a massive, dead star out there that bends the stuff of raw vacuum and prevents itself from collapsing into a black hole.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by me at the CosmoQuest blog.

Earlier this month, scientists using the Parkes Radio Telescope detected three FRBs, one of which was the brightest ever observed The post Astronomers Have Detected the Brightest Fast Radio Burst Ever Seen. Still No Idea...

A new model proposes that the oceans of Mars formed before or at the same time as Mars' largest volcanic feature, Tharsis, instead of after Tharsis formed 3.7 billion years ago. Because Tharsis was smaller at that time, ...

The first Kuiper Belt Object that the New Horizons mission will investigate - MU69 - just received the nickname "Ultima Thule" The post New Horizons Team Has a New Nickname for the Spacecraft’s Next Target appeared fir...

For the space-based infrared SBIRS satellites 5 and 6, the Air Force says the per-unit cost went down 12 percent -- from $1.9 billion to $1.6 billion. SpaceNews.com

A new scenario seeking to explain how Mars' putative oceans came and went over the last 4 billion years implies that the oceans formed several hundred million years earlier and were not as deep as once thought....

Media are invited to view NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander Friday, April 6, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where it's currently undergoing...

The Kepler mission, which is responsible for the majority of exoplanet discoveries, is running out of fuel and will be making its final discoveries over the next few months. The post Kepler’s Almost Out of Fuel. It’l...

Graphic designers reveal how they translate hard science collected by Hubble into some incredibly artistic designs, while keeping the science as accurate as possible.

The seven rocky planets circling the nearby star TRAPPIST-1 have lots of water, a new study suggests -- perhaps too much to make them good bets for life.

New research finds that 'Oumuamua, the rocky object identified as the first confirmed interstellar asteroid, very likely came from a binary star system....

A new scenario seeking to explain how Mars' putative oceans came and went over the last 4 billion years implies that the oceans formed several hundred million years earlier and were not as deep as once thought.

"These ideas offer the breathtaking prospect of finding evidence for the existence of other universes," said Carlos Frenk, professor of cosmology at Durham University in The Sunday Times: The intriguing idea in Hawking's...

Stephen Hawking's Great Question --"Why Isn't the Milky Way Crawling With Mechanical or Biological Life?" 'Ghost Signals' of Extraterrestrial Civilizations Haunt the Milky Way --Suggests the New Drake Equation (WATCH Vid...

After five months on display in "Space City," the historic NASA spacecraft that carried the first astronauts to land on the moon is now destined for the "Gateway to the West."

Today - Veg-03: Today the crew watered the Veg-03 plants and harvested leaves from each plant....

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over the Japanese capital of Tokyo....

Astronomers say there are 100 billion to 200 billion galaxies in the universe. But accurately counting the number of galaxies depends on several factors.