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Future rockets could fly with tanks made of lightweight carbon fibre reinforced plastic thanks to ground-breaking research carried out within ESA's Future Launchers Preparatory Programme.

Future rockets could fly with tanks made of lightweight carbon fiber reinforced plastic thanks to ground-breaking research carried out within ESA's Future Launchers Preparatory Program.

Professor Avi Loeb has announced a new project that will search for 'Oumuamua-like objects in our Solar System, which could be artifacts of extraterrestrial spacecraft The post A New Plan to Search for Extraterrestrial A...

Space vehicles powered by small nuclear reactors could be used for military missions in deep space, the vice chief of the U.S. Space Force said July 28. SpaceNews

When Earth's sun grows into a red giant 5 billion years from now, solar wind will shred our planet's magnetic field to bits.

China sent three Yaogan 30 series satellites into orbit and used the launch to test controlling the rocket's falling nose cone with a parachute.

Scottish startup R3-IoT is expanding to North America after raising early funds for connecting sensors and devices with satellite-enabled solutions. SpaceNews

Using the SPIRou spectropolarimeter on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii, a team led by Stefan Pelletier, a PhD student at Université de Montréal's Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), studied the at...

It's hard for an exoplanet to keep itself together in the neighborhood of two parent stars.

Scientists have published a new, detailed radio image of the Andromeda galaxy--the Milky Way's sister galaxy--which will allow them to identify and study the regions of Andromeda where new stars are born.

Watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away, Stanford University astrophysicist Dan Wilkins noticed an intriguing pattern. He observed...

Image: For the first time, astronomers have seen light coming from behind a black hole. Using ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's NuSTAR space telescopes, an international team of scientists led by Dan Wilkins of Stanford Univer...

If you were to place a galaxy behind the black hole and then look off to the side, you'd see a distorted image of the galaxy. Here's why.

Middle-aged stars can experience their own kind of midlife crisis, experiencing dramatic breaks in their activity and rotation rates at about the same age as our Sun, according to new research published today in Monthly ...

The ability to transmit and receive data is crucial in space exploration. Spacecraft need robust networking capabilities to send data--including large files like photos and videos--captured by onboard instruments to Eart...

Black holes aren't what they eat. Einstein's general relativity predicts that no matter what a black hole consumes, its external properties depend only on its mass, rotation and electric charge. All other details about i...

Machine learning is coming for astronomy. But that doesn't mean astronomers and citizen scientists are obsolete. In fact, it may mean exactly the opposite.

NASA will host a variety of events and interactive opportunities celebrating the agency's interns and their contributions to its missions in recognition of National Intern Day, held this year on Thursday, July 29.

The U.S. Space Force plans to launch an experimental research and development satellite to low Earth orbit early tomorrow (July 29), and you can watch the action live.

ESA has successfully operated a spacecraft with Europe's next-generation mission control system for the first time. The powerful software, named the "European Ground System--Common Core' (EGS-CC), will be the 'brain' of ...

An opportunity in 2019 lays the groundwork for balloon-borne detectors on Venus, working to unravel a key mystery. The post Balloon Mission May Also Work to Detect Quakes on Venus appeared first on Universe Today.

One of the less appreciated aspects of George Lucas' vision for Star Wars was that he predicted the existence of planets in binary star systems years before we saw even the first exoplanet. Now a team from the University...