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Astronomers report the finding of a new candidate redback millisecond pulsar (MSP) binary associated with a gamma-ray source known as 4FGL J0940.3-7610. The newly found object is a short-period compact binary exhibiting ...

Astrophysicist Joe Pesce is making his return to the Space.com forums after last year's popular AMAs. This time around, he'll be on video.

This recording was made on 18 November 2020 by the Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) camera on board the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft....

NASA's asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx probe will spend a couple of extra months at its target space rock before heading back to Earth.

Two NASA astronauts will upgrade a crucial International Space Station science module in orbit during a spacewalk today (Jan. 27), and you can watch the whole thing live.

Axiom Space's first privately funded trip to the International Space Station will be as notable for who's not on the crew as for who is. Sorry, Tom Cruise: Your filmed-in-space movie will have to wait. Since last May, ...

Rep. Jim Cooper added his voice to the chorus of lawmakers demanding that the Biden administration investigate the Air Force's decision to move Space Command from Colorado to Alabama. SpaceNews

NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover are scheduled to depart the International Space Station's Quest airlock Wednesday for the first in a series of spacewalks to upgrade station hardware and systems....

Can you picture Jupiter without any observable clouds or haze? It isn’t easy since Jupiter’s latitudinal cloud bands and its Great Red Spot are iconic visual features in our Solar System. Those features are caused by...

Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) wants the Biden administration to put pressure on the Space Force to clean up its procurement act. SpaceNews

In September, a team led by astronomers in the United Kingdom announced that they had detected the chemical phosphine in the thick clouds of Venus. The team's reported detection, based on observations by two Earth-based ...

A combination of observational data and sophisticated computer simulations have yielded advances in a field of astrophysics that has languished for half a century. The Dark Energy Survey, which is hosted by the U.S. Depa...

People go to bed later and sleep fewer hours the night before a full moon, and menstrual cycles seem to temporarily synchronize with moon cycles, scientists have found in two new studies.

Few events in the astronomy community were received with more fanfare than the first detection of gravitational waves, which took place on September 14th, 2015. Since then, different events have been recorded using the s...

A team of physicists and computer scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory performed one of the five largest cosmological simulations ever. Data from the simulation will inform sk...

EXO-6 comes roaring into the high-end collectibles market with a stunning new 12-inch Data figure as seen in "Star Trek: First Contact."

SiriusXM and Maxar Technologies revealed problems with SXM-7, a SiriusXM communications satellite launched in December, in Jan. 27 filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. SpaceNews

A new process highlights an innovative way to get old sky images online... and turned up a potential extra-galactic discovery over a century old. The post Low-Cost Approach to Scanning Historic Glass Plates Yields an Ast...

Where did the ingredients for life on Earth come from? A team of astronomers has found a crucial new link: the observation of essential "prebiotic" molecules around a still-forming star.

Interstellar war erupts in "Eragon" author Christopher Paolini's new sci-fi epic, "To Sleep in a Sea Of Stars"

Early planetary migration in the solar system has been long established, and there are myriad theories that have been put forward to explain where the planets were coming from. Theories such as the Grand Tack Hypothesis ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is heading towards the center of the Solar System, with the goal of capturing the closest images ever taken of our Sun. But during its flight, the spacecraft turned back to look towards home....