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For the first time ever, scientists have seen the light "echoing" from behind a black hole.

As a SETI scientist, I’m grateful that he has the freedom—and the guts—to go where few would dare to go --

Boeing's astronaut taxi is stepping into the limelight again, and the stakes are even higher this time.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just captured another amazing image, this time of the relativistic jet coming from the center of the Centaurus A galaxy. The post The Event Horizon Telescope Zooms in on Another Supermas...

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will have to wait to make its triumphant trip to space.

NASA will host a media teleconference at 4:30 p.m. EDT today, Thursday, July 29, to discuss the status of International Space Station activities.

Astronomers have captured the first-ever spin measurements of planets making up the HR 8799 star system.

President Biden has nominated John Plumb to be assistant secretary of defense for space policy, the White House announced July 29. SpaceNews

Avi Loeb's Galileo Project plans to hunt the solar system for signs of technology from intelligent, extraterrestrial civilizations.

Teams with NASA's Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and contractor Jacobs integrated the launch abort system (LAS) with the Orion spacecraft inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florid...

The uncrewed Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), named Nauka, the Russian word for "science," arrived at the International Space Station's Poisk module on the space-facing side of the Russian segment at 9:29 a.m. EDT.....

The CST-100 Starliner capsule and its Atlas V rocket rolled out to their pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station this morning (July 29) ahead of their planned Friday liftoff.

When it launches in the mid-2020s, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will revolutionize astronomy by building on the science discoveries and technological leaps of the Hubble, Spitzer, and Webb space telescopes. T...

British operator Inmarsat plans to add at least 150 low-Earth-orbit satellites to its global fleet, stepping up competition against OneWeb and others developing megaconstellations for mobility markets. SpaceNews

Bright reflections that radar detected beneath the south pole of Mars may not be underground lakes as previously thought but deposits of clay instead, a new study finds.

A pair of astronomers have proposed two new strategies for preventing possible asteroid impacts.

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Bright reflections observed at Mars' south pole serve as evidence for water. But, seeing may be deceiving.

Meet the Big Crunch: In this theory on the origins of the universe, the Big Bang was not the beginning, but a repeating pattern of expansion and contraction.

A fizzled example of a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion known in the universe, suggests these outbursts can be surprisingly brief, researchers say.

Astronomers from Italy report the detection of a new star cluster as part of the YMCA (Yes, Magellanic Clouds Again) survey. The newly discovered stellar grouping, designated YMCA-1, may be an old and remote star cluster...

Producing rapid and accurate images on missions to the Moon, Mars and other terrestrial destinations is crucial for a safe descent and landing. A NASA project called Safe and Precise Landing--Integrated Capabilities Evol...