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George Seielstad knows what it's like to have a massive telescope fall apart on your watch.

Scientists have discovered a cold, faint "super-planet" that has remained elusive to traditional infrared survey methods.

An international team of astronomers has conducted simultaneous radio and X-ray observations of the magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 during its period of enhanced activity. In result, new X-ray and radio bursts were detected from...

In the wake of a second structural failure, the NSF has announced that the iconic Arecibo Observatory will be decommissioned after 57 years of service. The post Aricebo’s Damage is so Serious and Dangerous, They’re J...

The first lunar sample-return mission since the 1970s is underway.

China launched an ambitious mission on Tuesday to bring back rocks and debris from the moon's surface for the first time in more than 40 years--an undertaking that could boost human understanding of the moon and of the s...

The spiral-shaped disk of stars and planets is being pulled, twisted and deformed with extreme violence by the gravitational force of a smaller galaxy--the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

In the years since astronomers discovered the first exoplanet--a planet that orbits a star outside the solar system--more than 4,000 have been observed. Usually, their presence is given away by the slight effects they ha...

Astronomers using data collected with the Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) have helped to characterize only the second known minimoon of Earth, a newly discovered asteroid with the designation 2020 CD3, or CD3 for short....

Fleet operator Inmarsat and communications technology firm Addvalue Innovation announced success Nov. 23 relaying data between Capella Space's operations center on the ground and Capella's Sequoia synthetic aperture rada...

To compete in an unconventional program like the Space Development Agency's Transport Layer, Lockheed Martin decided to team up with commercial companies. SpaceNews

Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe:

Mars is an arid place, and aside from a tiny amount of water vapour in the atmosphere, all water exists as ice. But it wasn’t always this arid. Evidence of the planet’s past wet chapter dots the surface. Paleolakes l...

Nailing down cosmic expansion could depend on distant quasars, and the time it takes their light to reach us when gravitationally lensed. The post Gravitational lenses could be the key to measuring the expansion rate of ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded its first contracts Nov. 20 to purchase radio occultation data from commercial satellite operators to GeoOptics and Spire Global. SpaceNews

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In September, an international team announced that they had discovered phosphine gas (PH3) in the atmosphere of Venus based on data obtained by the Atacama Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile and the James Cle...

Carbice, the Atlanta startup that developed the thermal-management material Carbice Carbon, raised $15 million in a Series A investment round led by Downing Ventures, a division of London-based investment management firm...

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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

(University of Edinburgh) The long-held belief that the Milky Way, the galaxy containing Earth and the solar system, is relatively static has been ruptured by fresh cosmic insight. The spiral-shaped disc of stars and pla...