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SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said April 27 that he hopes to test a new way to reduce the brightness of the company's Starlink satellites on the next launch for the broadband megaconstellation. SpaceNews.com

Thousands of years from now, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 will leave our solar system. But their instruments will stop working long before that happens.

Venus, the most brilliant planet in the night sky, will be shining at its brightest tonight (April 28).

You can take the measure of the big space rock that will zoom by Earth early Wednesday morning (April 28), thanks to radar views from the Arecibo Observatory.

The farther scientists zoom in on our sun, the more details they see.

Video: 00:04:36 Take a break with ESA astronauts Alexander Gerst, Samantha Cristoforetti, Luca Parmitano and Thomas Pesquet as they discuss living and working in space. In this video, our astronauts cover the ins and out...

A big asteroid will safely fly by Earth early tomorrow morning (April 29), and you can watch it approach our planet in real time tonight with a free webcast from the Slooh online observatory.

Hubble Space Telescope News:

Image: 3D printed face shields

The International Space Station provides an orbiting research platform that benefits not only human health, but also industry and technology....

Researchers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have used the infrastructure of the former TAMA300 gravitational wave detector in Mitaka, Tokyo, to demonstrate a new technique to reduce quantum noise...

Bochum cosmologists headed by Professor Hendrik Hildebrandt have gained new insights into the density and structure of matter in the universe. Several years ago, Hildebrandt had already been involved in a research consor...

By analyzing spectroscopic data, astronomers have investigated the globular cluster Omega Centauri, aiming to find a population of stars with very low metallicity. The study resulted in the detection of the 11 most metal...

The huge "potentially hazardous" asteroid 1998 OR2, which will safely fly by Earth on April 29, appears to have brought its own face mask for its close encounter with our pandemic-ridden planet.

Incredible moments from Apollo 13 live on in a hidden gem museum in New York.

As the coronavirus pandemic wreaks vast changes on people's daily lives, ESA is examining how space can help improve life on Earth both during and after the outbreak. Experts in economics, geopolitics, psychology, medici...

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(ESA/Hubble Information Centre) The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the sharpest view yet of the breakup of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS). The telescope resolved roughly 30 fragments of the fragil...

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) These two Hubble Space Telescope images of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), taken on April 20 and 23, 2020, provide the sharpest views yet of the breakup of the fragile comet.

(University of California - Los Angeles) In images captured in recent days by the Hubble Space Telescope, UCLA professor David Jewitt observed a comet breaking into more than two dozen fragments. He estimated that many o...

(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) Researchers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have used the infrastructure of the former TAMA300 gravitational wave detector in Mitaka, Tokyo to demonstrat...

As astronauts explore the Moon during the Artemis program, they may need to make use of the resources that already exist on the lunar surface....