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With a successful test of the spacecraft's abort system now complete, the manager of NASA's Orion program is optimistic the spacecraft will be ready to send humans to the moon in 2024 even as development schedules contin...

Type II solar radio bursts are the result of energetic electrons accelerated by a shock. This kind of burst appears on dynamic spectra as lanes drifting slowly from higher to lower frequencies. Often, scientists observe ...

Unusual dips of light observed by the Kepler space telescope have so far confounded attempts at an explanation --

Students in New York City will have an opportunity next week to talk with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Eta Carinae shows off its ultraviolet glow of gas and dust.

Named after a Celtic goddess of the Sun, SULIS is a UK-led solar science mission, designed to answer fundamental questions about the physics of solar storms. The mission consists of a cluster of small satellites and will...

The role of an excited black hole in the death of an exotic 'jellyfish' galaxy will be presented today (3 July) by Callum Bellhouse of the University of Birmingham at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Lancaster. The ...

Out there in space is an unusual exoplanet name Gliese 3470 b (GJ 3470 b.) It’s a strange world, kind of like a hybrid between Earth and Neptune. It has a rocky core like Earth, but is surrounded by an atmosphere made ...

SpaceIL's recent decision not to mount a second lunar lander mission is only the latest sign of delays and retrenchment among international ventures planning missions to the moon. SpaceNews.com

Northrop Grumman will build two satellites for Space Norway, each equipped with payloads for Inmarsat, the Norwegian Ministry of Defense, and the U.S. Air Force. SpaceNews.com

Conspiracy theorists took to social media in a flurry of excitement Wednesday after a mysterious flying object resembling an orange fireball streaked across the Florida sky.

The roughly 11-lb. (5 kilograms) cubesat is designed to showcase that efficient solar sailing is possible.

As sunset drew near on July 2, 2019, thousands along a ribbon of land stretching across Chile and Argentina looked to the skies, waiting for the Moon's shadow to cast them into momentary darkness. They knew a total solar...

7500 light years away is an object that (almost) needs no introduction: Eta Carinae. If you haven’t heard of it you should be following Universe Today more. Eta Carinae is a well-known and often-studied object in astro...

President Trump has named 18 NASA researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Solar sails traverse the oceans of space.

An eerie image of Earth's North Pole shows the effects on our planet's reflectivity when an unusual type of cloud forms.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Researchers from Southern Methodist University (SMU) could help determine if Saturn's icy moon--Titan--has ever been home to life long before NASA completes an exploratory visit to its surface by a drone helicopter.

The manager of NASA's Orion program is optimistic the spacecraft will be ready to send humans to the moon in 2024 even as development schedules continue to slip.

Artemis is NASA's plan to go back to the moon.

Identifying an interstellar meteorite—‘Oumuamua’s cousin—required a national-security waiver --