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Images from the Event Horizon Telescope reveal new details of how supermassive black holes produce huge jets of matter and energy --

A Soyuz rocket sent 38 satellites into space Monday (March 22), marking a historic rideshare mission for Russian company GK Launch Services.

Former Trump intelligence director John Ratcliffe told Fox News that more unexplained sightings of flying objects will soon be declassified.

NASA is shifting direction in its effort to support development of commercial space stations in low Earth orbit, with plans to issue a series of awards for initial studies before later purchasing services. SpaceNews

Long-term space investors aren't surprised by the recent surge of space industry mergers and acquisitions. In fact, they say, it's right on time. SpaceNews

The pair of contracts for Orbex and Skyrora were awarded under Boost!, an ESA program that aims to foster new commercial space transportation services. SpaceNews

Cremation diamonds: Here's how science can give you an afterlife in the form of shiny compressed carbon.

This latest installment from our data sonification series features three diverse cosmic scenes. In each, astronomical data collected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes are converted into sounds. Dat...

The Event Horizon Telescope's newest images of M87's supermassive black hole hint at how its jets are fired far into space.

We could gravitationally lens radio signals to communicate with space probes at other stars. Maybe even communicate across the galaxy. The post Gravitational Lenses Could Allow a Galaxy-Wide Internet appeared first on Un...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

A Soyuz rocket will launch 36 new satellites into orbit for OneWeb today (March 24) and you can watch online.

EHT (Event Horizon Telescope):

Following the mind-boggling release of the first image ever captured of a black hole, astronomers have done it again, revealing a new view of the massive celestial object and shedding light on how magnetic fields behave ...

Scientists may have finally made a complete digital model for the Cosmos panel of a 2,000-year-old mechanical device called the Antikythera mechanism that's believed to be the world's first computer.

For well over a decade, ESA's SMOS satellite has been delivering a wealth of data to map moisture in soil and salt in the surface waters of the oceans for a better understanding of the processes driving the water cycle. ...

What might look like a dangling hamster ball is actually a robotic sphere to explore the depths of lunar caves.

Data from ESA's Gaia star mapping satellite have revealed tantalizing evidence that the nearest star cluster to the sun is being disrupted by the gravitational influence of a massive but unseen structure in our galaxy.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which produced the first-ever image of a black hole, has today revealed a new view of the massive object at the center of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy: How it looks in pola...

As part of its Boost! programme, ESA has signed two new contracts which support UK-based Orbex and Skyrora in their separate proposals for new commercial launch services for small satellites. These services are set to st...

Italian ground segment provider Leaf Space announced plans March 24 to establish a U.S. office to serve government and commercial customers. SpaceNews

An international team of astronomers has detected four new "hot Jupiter" exoplanets as part of the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). The newly found alien worlds are at least 10% larger than Jupiter but less massive...