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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said July 25 that, in order to address the delays and cost overruns with the James Webb Space Telescope, the agency may seek to slow down development of another flagship astrophysics mi...

The sun is not silent; in fact, it has a surprisingly soothing sound.

Where does the sky end and space begin? According to a new study, the edge of space is a lot closer than you think.

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According to a new study by a European team, the Moon may have been habitable during two periods in the past. The post Was There a Time When the Moon was Habitable? appeared first on Universe Today.

A thin gap has been discovered on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (HRD), the most fundamental of all maps in stellar astronomy, a finding that provides new information about the interior structures of low mass stars in t...

The chief executive of Northrop Grumman said July 26 he is willing to make the profit his company earns on the James Webb Space Telescope contingent on the overall success of the mission. SpaceNews.com

The National Space Council is planning a series of roundtable discussions with industry to explore what the federal government can do to encourage access to and utilization of the microgravity environment. SpaceNews.com

A new analysis of 15 years of data from the Mars Express probe by a team of Italian scientists shows compelling evidence for their being liquid water beneath Mars southern polar region. The post Underground Liquid Water ...

The total lunar eclipse happening Friday won't be visible for people across North America, and bad weather could threaten even the geographically lucky -- but in the digital age, no avid skywatcher is completely shut out...

Findings from a Rochester Institute of Technology study provide further evidence that the outskirts of spiral galaxies host massive black holes. These overlooked regions are new places to observe gravitational waves crea...

In the blink of an eye, a massive star more than 2 billion light-years away lost a million-year-long fight against gravity and collapsed, triggering a supernova and forming a black hole at its center.

In summer 2018 the planets Mars and Saturn are, one after the other, in opposition to Earth. During this event the planets are relatively close to Earth, allowing astronomers to observe them in greater detail. Hubble too...

"When we first thought of Webb, it wasn't technically feasible. We had to succeed at inventing some things before we could build it--not unlike the Apollo Program in this regard," said Paul Geithner, Deputy Project Manag...

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): For Release: 26 July 2018; 11 a.m. EDT Summary: Astronomers using ALMA studied a cataclysmic stellar explosion known as a gamma-ray burstGamma-ray BurstA powerful event where ...

"During the close passage, we could even detect the faint glow around the black hole on most of the images, which allowed us to precisely follow the star on its orbit, ultimately leading to the detection of the gravitati...

Hubble Space Telescope News:

The United States has vowed to send the first humans to Mars by the 2030s, but space experts and lawmakers on Wednesday expressed concern that poor planning and lack of funds will delay those plans.

Preparations are already underway for missions that will land humans on Mars in a decade or so. But what would people eat if these missions eventually lead to the permanent colonisation of the red planet?

We now know that there is permanent liquid water on Mars, according to a paper published today in the journal Science.

Astronomers have discovered a highly magnified, gravitationally lensed quasi-stellar object (QSO). The newly found quasar, designated W2M J104222.11+164115.3, is dust-reddened, and exhibits a significant flux anomaly. Th...

Observations made with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have, for the first time, detected the effects of general relativity predicted by Einstein, in the movement of a star passi...