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NASA and the Government of Japan have finalized an agreement for the lunar Gateway, an orbiting outpost that commercial and international partners will build together.

The landing of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover next month will make serious waves, some of which may help scientists better understand the Red Planet's structure.

Scientists have found the most distant quasar yet known -- and it's home to a seriously supermassive black hole.

As the rover has continued to ascend Mount Sharp, it's found distinctive benchlike rock formations....

The most distant quasar known has been discovered. The quasar, seen just 670 million years after the Big Bang, is 1000 times more luminous than the Milky Way, and is powered by the earliest known supermassive black hole,...

SpaceX's newest Starship prototype blazed to life three times today (Jan. 13), apparently keeping the vehicle on track for a high-altitude test flight in the near future.

The company is targeting Sunday, January 17 for sending its LauncherOne rocket to space from the belly of a 747 jet --

Astronauts and cosmonauts in space have reported spatial disorientation problems, where they find it hard to get a sense of direction, or distinguish between what might be considered "up" or "down."  This is called "Vis...

The U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, was picked as the preferred location of U.S. Space Command's headquarters. SpaceNews

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity profoundly changed our thinking about fundamental concepts in physics, such as space and time. But it also left us with some deep mysteries. One was black holes, which were ...

The veteran "Star Wars" author takes a deep dive into the first season production process of Disney+'s "The Mandalorian" in a beautiful new coffee table gift book

Apart from black holes, magnetars may be the most extreme stars in the universe. With a diameter less than the length of Manhattan, they pack more mass than that of our sun, wield the largest magnetic field of any known ...

Earth gets blasted by mild short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) most days. But sometimes, a giant flare like GRB 200415A arrives at our galaxy, sweeping along energy that dwarfs our sun. In fact, the most powerful explosions in...

A new study suggests that Solar Cycle 25 may be more powerful than previously predicted. The post Will Solar Cycle 25 Dazzle or Fizzle in 2021? appeared first on Universe Today.

Dark matter within our galaxy is difficult to map, but a team of astronomers has used pulsars to measure its gravitational pull. The post Astronomers can use Pulsars to Measure Tiny Changes of Acceleration Within the Mil...

Scientists were able to measure the orbit of exoplanet GOT 'EM-1b, a gas giant nearly 1,300 light-years from Earth.

What if the world were constantly bombarded with space-rock smashups, big enough and frequent enough to shape the course of entire cultures?

SpaceX has been selected to launch MethaneSAT's newest methane-tracking satellite in 2022.

NASA is targeting a two-hour test window that opens at 5 p.m. EST Saturday, Jan. 16, for the hot fire test of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage at the agency's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mi...

Virgin Orbit's Launch Demo 2 mission will lift off Sunday (Jan. 17), if all goes according to plan.

In a case of comic mistaken identity, an international team of astronomers revealed that what they once thought was a supernova is actually periodic flaring from a galaxy where a supermassive black hole gives off bursts ...

Some of the most tantalizing targets in space exploration are frozen ice worlds. Take Jupiter's moon Europa, for instance. Its warm, salty subsurface ocean is buried under a moon-wide sheet of ice. What's the best way to...