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I'm outside at my rural Saskatchewan farm, chatting with my neighbors who I've invited over to appreciate the night sky through my telescope. After exclamations and open-mouthed wonder over Saturn's rings, and light that...

In the global race for geopolitical dominance, hypersonic glide weapons level the playing field "not by improving their own capabilities, but by removing ours," said Mike Griffin. SpaceNews

Lockheed Martin has named a former acting administrator of NASA as the new head of its space business unit. SpaceNews

This Star Wars Millennium Falcon Bluetooth speaker is on clearance for $34 at Best Buy right now.

NASA and the U.S. Dept. of Energy have come together to solicit design proposals for a nuclear reactor that will power Lunar and Martian exploration! The post NASA is Building a Nuclear Reactor to Power Lunar and Martian...

Boba Fett and Hoth are among the stars of this ugly sweater set.

It's unusual to see a comet at its best: Most comets are brightest nearest the sun, just when they're most difficult to spot against the sun's glare or hidden below the horizon.

Researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have observed a new type of binary star that has long been theorized to exist. The discovery finally confirms how a rare type of star in the universe for...

Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory have discovered an unusually massive black hole at the heart of one of the Milky Way's dwarf satellite galaxies, called Leo I. Almost as massive as ...

The White House released Dec. 1 a document that outlines its space policy priorities, including addressing growing military threats and supporting "a rules-based international order for space." SpaceNews

Elon Musk admitted that SpaceX had to move several of its Starlink satellites to prevent in-orbit collisions with fragments of space debris created by the Russian anti-satellite missile test.

Do you know what the Earth's atmosphere is made of? You'd probably remember it's oxygen, and maybe nitrogen. And with a little help from Google you can easily reach a more precise answer: 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and 1% ...

While light can't escape the monstrous gravity of a black hole, that hasn't kept researchers on a team that includes UO scientists from taking a big step forward in the effort to reveal their secrets.

Recently completed tests of two propellant tanks set a first technological milestone in the ESA reusability roadmap towards the demonstration of a reusable first stage vehicle called Themis.

Data collected by the Arecibo Radio Telescope before it collapsed late last year will help astronomers better understand how our local neighborhood of galaxies formed.

NGC 6891 is a bright, asymmetrical planetary nebula in the constellation Delphinus, the Dolphin. This Hubble image reveals a wealth of structure, including a spherical outer halo that is expanding faster than the inner n...

The hunt for gravitational waves, ripples in space and time caused by major cosmic cataclysms, could help solve one of the Universe's other burning mysteries--boson clouds and whether they are a leading contender for dar...

A year later, scientists and Puerto Ricans are still reeling from the loss of the iconic Arecibo radio telescope.

It seems that good things do indeed come to those who wait, and we're super-excited to finally see the third season of "Lost in Space" on our television screens.

Private space stations may end up being a key stepping stone on humanity's path to Mars, a new report by the NASA Office of Inspector General suggests.

Will humans ever find themselves at home at Alpha Centauri?

Problems increasing production of the Raptor engines that power SpaceX's Starship vehicle have led to personnel shakeups at the company and a warning from founder Elon Musk that the company risked "bankruptcy" if the com...