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Voyager Space Holdings announced that it plans to acquire The Launch Company. SpaceNews

Video: 00:03:44 Learn how climate change is causing our seas to rise and how satellites have been measuring the height of the sea surface systematically since 1992. With global sea level now rising fast, Copernicus Senti...

SAN FRANCISCO — Viasat announced plans Nov. 19 to purchase the remaining assets of the European joint venture it established with Eutelsat Communications for 140 million euros ($166 million), including the KA-SAT broad...

Sparked by an image uploaded to Twitter, new research indicates that the light produced by black hole accretion may be bright enough to reflect off of dust, illuminating the host galaxy, and creating light and dark rays ...

Following a review of engineering assessments that found damage to the Arecibo Observatory cannot be stabilized without risk to construction workers and staff at the facility, the U.S. National Science Foundation will be...

Astronomers using data from the ongoing VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) have found a number of distant galaxies with supermassive black holes at their cores that have launched powerful, radio-emitting jets of material within the ...

If you asked someone who was reasonably scientifically literate how Earth got its water, they’d likely tell you it came from asteroids--or maybe comets and planetesimals, too--that crashed into our planet in its early ...

"Over the next 18 months we'll complete the transition to a fully reusable SpaceX fleet for our national security missions," said Col. Robert Bongiovi, director of the Space and Missile Systems Center's Launch Enterprise...

This week we are airing Fraser’s pre-recorded interview with Dr. Ralph Lorenz, planetary scientist and aerospace engineer from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Ralph is the Mission Architect of the upcomin...

SpaceX needs Starlink to improve and expand across three major areas at once: customer hardware, business models, and the satellite network. It's a challenge no one in the satellite industry has attempted. What's more, M...

Engineers have concluded Arecibo Observatory cannot be safely repaired after the failure of two cables.

A Kansas City law firm has filed suit over what it claims is its financial stake in five small strips of possibly-moon-dust-stained carbon tape, extending a complicated legal saga that has surrounded a white zippered pou...

The National Science Foundation announced Thursday that it will close the huge telescope at the renowned Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in a blow to scientists worldwide who depend on it to search for planets, astero...

Some of the oldest stars in our galaxy have orbits similar to the Sun, and we don't know why The post Some of the Milky Way’s oldest stars aren’t where they’re expected to be appeared first on Universe Today.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) will decommission Arecibo Observatory's massive radio dish after damage has made the facility too dangerous to repair, the agency announced today (Nov. 19).

The NSF announced Nov. 19 it will perform a "controlled decommissioning" of the giant radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, citing recent damage that made it unsafe to operate or even repair. SpaceNe...

Martian dust storms have helped to strip water from the red planet.

India's space agency aims to launch its Venus orbiter Shukrayaan in late 2024, more than a year later than previously planned, an ISRO research scientist told a NASA-chartered planetary science planning committee Nov. 10...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

What resembles a donut or the iris of an eye is actually a liquid cell illuminated from below.

In this Q&A, the iconoclastic filmmaker and his co-director, volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer, discuss their new documentary on Apple TV+, which is an exploration of the role that space rocks have played in shaping humani...

Using the Parkes 64-meter radio telescope, Chinese astronomers have performed a detailed study of a pulsar known as PSR J1326'6700. The results of this research provide more insights into the mode switching phenomenon ob...