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Researchers have created a miniature version of supernova shock waves in a lab here on Earth to solve a long-standing cosmic mystery.

The Hubble Space Telescope has delivered another outstanding image. This one is of NGC 6441, a massive globular cluster in the constellation Scorpius. It’s one of the most massive ones in the Milky Way, and the stars i...

SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft is performing well enough on orbit to give NASA confidence that the mission can last until August, an agency official said June 9. SpaceNews.com

Physicists set a new record by linking together a hot soup of 15 trillion atoms in a bizarre phenomenon called quantum entanglement.

Extreme space weather events can significantly impact systems such as satellites, communications systems, power distribution and aviation. They are driven by solar activity which is known to have an irregular but roughly...

The first confirmed heartbeat of a supermassive black hole is still going strong more than ten years after first being observed.

The small-satellite launch company Rocket Lab will loft a mini-fleet of payloads for NASA, a U.S. spy satellite agency and universities in the wee hours of the morning this Thursday (June 11) and you can watch it live on...

A pair of space freighters from Russia and Japan docked to the International Space Station are getting attention today as the Expedition 63 crew works on a variety of space experiments....

China launched the Haiyang-1D ocean observation satellite Wednesday with the country's 13th orbital launch of a busy 2020. SpaceNews.com

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): A new set of precision distance measurements made with an international collection of radio telescopes have greatly increased the likelihood that theorists need to revise the ...

Now's the time to pick up a book about the science of breath, the physics of destruction, or how one major U.S. city is responding to climate change.

SES is two to three weeks away from ordering six C-band satellites to replace older satellites whose usefulness will be cut short by the FCC's upcoming spectrum auction, SES CEO Steve Collar told SpaceNews. SpaceNews.com

Saturn's moon Titan is zooming away from its ringed parent 100 times faster than scientists expected.

Space weather forecasters need to predict the speed of solar eruptions, as much as their size, to protect satellites and the health of astronauts, scientists have found.

The foam-coarsening experiment ran a new batch of cartridges in the Fluid Sciences Laboratory of the European Columbus module.

The strange behavior of a duo of stars in a dense cluster called Terzan 5 located 19,000 light-years from Earth has caught the eye of an international team of astronomers.

Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (skoltech), together with colleagues from the Karl-Franzens University of Graz and the Kanzelhoehe Observatory (Austria), have developed an automatic method for ...

Using NASA's Swift and NuSTAR spacecraft, together with NICER instrument onboard the International Space Station, astronomers from Spain and Italy have performed an X-ray monitoring of a magnetar known as SGR 1935+2154. ...

Following seven years of design and prototyping work, the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has completed its preparations for the construction of the Square Kilometr...

Astronomers are praising SpaceX's response to months of outcry over the visibility of the company's Starlink internet satellites from scientists dismayed by interference with observations.

The movie-star look to SpaceX's new spacesuits is just one of the innovative features the Crew Dragon astronauts enjoyed during the Demo-2 test flight to the International Space Station.

Image: Testing for Ireland's first satellite