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One year ago, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration published the first image of a black hole in the nearby radio galaxy M 87. Now the collaboration has extracted new information from the EHT data on the distan...

When a massive star in a distant galaxy collapses, forming a black hole, two giant jets of light-emitting plasma shoot from its core. These extremely bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful explosions in the...

If we’re going to find extraterrestrials, we need to stop assuming they’ll think like humans --

Tonight (April 7), the moon will be at its brightest and largest for the whole year during the "Super Pink Moon."

The launch was scheduled for late April and is now projected for no-earlier than June 30. SpaceNews.com

The patent for Umbra Lab's antenna is now public, revealing how the startup intends to deploy a large synthetic aperture radar reflector on a microsatellite. SpaceNews.com

About 570 light years from Earth lies WD 1145+017, a white dwarf star. In many respects it’s a typical white dwarf star. Its mass is about 0.6 solar masses, and its temperature is about 15,900 Kelvin. But five years ag...

Cash-strapped startup Sky and Space Global transferred control of the company April 6 to an accounting firm in an effort to preserve some or all of its business. SpaceNews.com

NASA astronaut Anne McClain's estranged wife has been charged with lying about a "space crime" that she alleged McClain committed.

In the coming years, China's FAST radio telescope could join in the hunt for extraterrestrials thanks to a partnership with Breakthrough Listen. The post How the World’s Biggest Radio Telescope Could be Used to Search ...

Future technologies that could enable quicker trips to Mars and robotic exploration of ocean worlds might have started out as NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC).

Astronomers are very sure that dark matter exists, but they’re not sure at all what it’s made of. The problem is that it isn’t just dark, it’s invisible. As far as we know, dark matter doesn’t emit light, absor...

A "Super Pink Moon" will rise into the evening sky today (April 7), and you can watch it online with webcasts from The Virtual Telescope Project and Slooh.

Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dave Dickinson ( / @astroguyz) Beth Johnson (@planetarypan) Veranika Klimovich ( @VeranikaSpace) This week we are excited to welcome Colonel Mike Mullane to the Weekly S...

Image: Bartolomeo connected to Columbus

At the same time the Event Horizon Telescope was gathering data to create the first-ever image of a black hole, it was also observing an even stranger object.

A violent quasar reveals a mystery lurking at its center, thanks to high-resolution images that were never before possible.

A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in collaboration with international colleagues, has reported the first definitive detection of a relativistic jet emerging from two colliding galaxies--in esse...

Without protection from radio interference, a giant observatory on the moon's hidden hemisphere could prove unworkable --

Some satellites are only slightly larger than a milk carton. This type of construction is now to be given a further simplified architecture and thus become even lighter and more cost-effective: This is the goal of the te...

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship is headed back to Earth today (April 7) to wrap up a successful resupply mission to the International Space Station. It's the end of an era for SpaceX.

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): One year ago, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration published the first image of a black hole in the nearby radio galaxy M 87. Now the collaboration has extracted ne...