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The Arecibo Observatory suffered some serious damage last month, but an assessment and investigation is underway and repairs will follow! The post An Update on the Damage to the Arecibo Observatory appeared first on Univ...

Dark matter is much more clumpy than we thought, which means some dark matter might be very cold. The post Small Amounts of Dark Matter are Creating Much Stronger Gravitational Distortions than Anyone Expected to See app...

Mysterious midnight disaster spared critical electronics in iconic alien-hunting telescope called the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

Virgin Galactic will fly to space again next month, if all goes according to plan.

A team of scientists has just published a paper announcing their discovery of a peculiar chemical in the cloudtops of Venus. As far as scientists can tell, this chemical, called phosphine, could only be produced by livin...

Mynaric will not be able to launch its first laser communications terminal this year because of a German ban on exporting that technology to China, the company said Monday. SpaceNews

From having a day longer than its year to its wind speeds faster than tornadoes, Venus is odd.

A chemical you've likely never heard of has burst into the news thanks to scientists' announcement that they have detected phosphine, which they say may be a sign of life, in the clouds of Venus.

NASA's Office of STEM Engagement is kicking off the new school year with Join Artemis Week, today through Sept. 18, with resources and opportunities to inspire and engage students of all ages in the future of space explo...

A planet observed crossing in front of, or transiting, a low-mass star has been determined to be about the size of Jupiter. While hundreds of Jupiter-sized planets have been discovered orbiting larger sun-like stars, it ...

An international team of astronomers, led by Professor Jane Greaves of Cardiff University, today announced the discovery of a rare molecule--phosphine--in the clouds of Venus. On Earth, this gas is only made industrially...

Discovering life beyond Earth may well start with a sniff, a whiff of some chemical that scientists struggle to explain without invoking a strange, shadowy microbe.

Venus isn't the only world beyond Earth where scientists have gotten a possible whiff of life.

The unexpected atmospheric detection of phosphine, a smelly gas made by microbes on Earth, could spark a revolution in astrobiology --

More than 230 years ago astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus and two of its moons. Using the Herschel Space Observatory, a group of astronomers led by -rs H. Detre of the Max Planck Institute for Astr...

Elon Musk, head of SpaceX, has announced via Twitter that the company's SN8 rocket will take a test flight sometime next week. The plan is for the rocket is to soar up to 60,000 feet (18,300 meters) and then return to Ea...

Astronomers from Australia and Taiwan report the discovery of millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations in a neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary known as 1RXS J180408.9'342058. The discovery, detailed in a paper published Se...

Smoke blankets the West Coast in the new images.

An international contest for space photography awarded its top prize to the photographer who captured a unique view of the Andromeda galaxy.

For all the biological activity on our homeworld, we're not the only interesting planet orbiting the sun. There are some other equally amazing places in the solar system. Here is just a sampling.

Video: 00:03:32 It's that time of year again: everyone is back to school! Like many, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is also studying, for his next mission to the International Space Station. Join Thomas in learning about E...

Many colorful stars are packed close together in this image of the globular cluster NGC 1805, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope....