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A small but evolving dent in Earth's magnetic field can cause big headaches for satellites.

The last supernova in history will be the final burst of light in a cold, dark, and dead cosmos. The post The Last Supernovae appeared first on Universe Today.

In addition to astronautical engineering, cadets will be offered courses in space law, strategy and operations. SpaceNews

NGC 1614, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is an eccentrically shaped galaxy ablaze with activity. The galaxy resides about 200 million light-years from Earth and is nestled in the southern constella...

California's Death Valley recorded what may be its hottest ever temperature on Sunday (Aug. 16) -- a blazing 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees Celsius).

Canada's versatile robotic arm, the 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2, is in place and ready to grapple and release Japan's resupply ship from the International Space Station next week....

According to the butterfly effect, small events can cause dramatic changes in the future. A new experiment tested whether the phenomenon holds up in a quantum computer simulation.

Eutelsat Communications says it no longer intends to buy a reimbursable C-band replacement satellite for the U.S. market, having concluded it can make do with less spectrum by rationalizing capacity on its current geosta...

Perseverance refined its course toward the Red Planet with a trajectory-correction maneuver on Friday (Aug. 14), 15 days after the life-hunting rover lifted off.

The Pentagon just announced the creation of a task force to analyze and understand the "nature and origins" of UFOs. Here's what the much-hyped news means.

Satellite communications provider Speedcast is seeking to sell itself to one of its largest debt holders as a means of exiting Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. SpaceNews

The debate over the origins and molecular structure of 'Oumuamua continued today with an announcement in The Astrophysical Journal Letters that despite earlier promising claims, the interstellar object is not made of mol...

A new launch date of 1 September 2020 has been announced by Arianespace for Vega flight VV16.

Scientists have detected a mysterious gamma-ray heartbeat coming from a cosmic gas cloud. The inconspicuous cloud in the constellation Aquila is beating with the rhythm of a neighboring precessing black hole, indicating ...

A team of researchers has observed the fastest moving star ever recorded. In their paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, the group describes their observation and study of stars circling close to the black hole a...

Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), together with international colleagues, have developed a method to study fast coronal mass ejections, powerful bursts of magnetized matter from the o...

Using data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft, astronomers have explored a planetary nebula (PN) known as Abell 30. Results of the study suggest that the central star of this nebula is a binary system, which could have implic...

It's not every day that two Indian schoolgirls spot a space rock that scientists haven't yet, but that's exactly what happened this summer in a stroke of cosmic good luck.

Rocket Lab, which gives small spacecraft dedicated rides to Earth orbit, plans to go interplanetary soon with an astrobiology mission to the second rock from the sun.

A White House document has included low Earth orbit research "on new platforms" as a research and development priority for the administration as NASA struggles to win congressional support for its LEO commercialization i...

Gen. James Dickinson will be the first Army officer to lead U.S. Space Command SpaceNews

(University of Rochester) In a project conducted at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a research team including University of Rochester engineering professor Gilbert (Rip) Collins,...