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Crews at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have taken the first 3,200-megapixel digital photos--the largest ever taken in a single shot--with an extraordinary array of imaging sensors that w...

An international team of astronomers has conducted spectroscopic and photometric observations of a cataclysmic variable (CV) known as V1460 Her. Results of the study indicate that the system consists of a fast-spinning w...

A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has completed the deepest and broadest search at low frequencies for alien technologies, scanning a patch of sky known to include at least 10 million stars.

People around the world believe our planet is flat. Here's the (surprising) truth about debating them.

Thanks to a new study by SETI researchers, Breakthrough Listen's search for extraterrestrial intelligence has expanded by a factor of 200! The post Extraterrestrial Hunters Figure Out a Way to Expand Their Search for Sig...

The Nancy Roman Telescope has reached another milestone in its development. NASA has announced that the space telescope’s primary mirror is now complete. The 2.4 meter (7.9 ft) mirror took less time to develop than oth...

Whatever we grow up with, we think of as normal. Our single solitary yellow star seems normal to us, with planets orbiting on the same, aligned ecliptic. But most stars aren’t alone; most are in binary relationships. A...

New studies of a rare type of meteorite show that material from close to the Sun reached the outer solar system even as the planet Jupiter cleared a gap in the disk of dust and gas from which the planets formed. The resu...

Prepare to beam to the future on Oct. 15.

GOES-13 has been repurposed as the Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System - Geostationary. SpaceNews

NASA has selected Catherine Koerner as manager of the agency's Orion Program

It's one of the stranger observations in ancient literature. A curious account comes to us by the 1st century AD Roman scholar Pliny the Elder, concerning the exploits of Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, who notes th...

The administration is requesting that funding lines in the Space Force's budget request be transferred from the Air Force's budget to separate accounts. SpaceNews

The imaging sensors for the future Vera C. Rubin Observatory have taken their record-breaking first photos.

Image: This structure is the frame and base for the European Service Module, part of NASA's Orion spacecraft that will return humans to the Moon. Built in Turin, Italy, at Thales Alenia Space, this is the third such stru...

Explaining the concept of a dust bunny to small children can be quite amusing. No, it's not actually alive. It's moving around because of really small currents of wind that we can't even see. It's mainly formed out of de...

It's been more than 50 years since the Apollo missions, and in that time, chemical analyses of the recovered lunar materials have revolutionized our understanding of planetary materials. One of the major findings as a re...

Four Indian astronauts continue to train at Russia's Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow as prospective space travelers for India's crewed Gaganyaan project.

A permeable heart with a hardened facade--the resting place of Rosetta's lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is revealing more about the interior of the "rubber duck" shaped-body looping around the Sun.

The former head of NASA's human spaceflight program, now working as a consultant to SpaceX, said he welcomes greater commercial activity in low Earth orbit but cautioned against ending the International Space Station pre...

Massive stars are those larger than about 10 times the mass of the sun and are born far less often than their low-mass counterparts. However, they contribute the most to the evolution of star clusters and galaxies. Massi...

Gravitational interactions among the moons could offer new insights on the liquid layers lurking in their depths --