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U.S. space tracking has linked the breakup of Chinese satellite Yunhai-1 (02) to a collision with a small piece of debris from a Russian satellite launch, according to NASA. SpaceNews

Paleontologists have identified the world's largest dinosaur in Argentina. However, it can be difficult to definitively compare these massive reptiles.

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is set to begin spying on some of the universe's most dramatic objects -- black holes and neutron stars.

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded HawkEye 360 a $15.5 million contract to provide radio frequency analytics research and development, and to help the government test and evaluate its hybrid space inte...

China's "artificial sun" has set a new world record after reaching temperatures five times hotter than the sun.

China's Yutu 2 rover has reached the so-called "mystery hut" on the far side of the moon that attracted widespread attention last month -- but don't get too excited.

Concentrations of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere continued to rise in 2021 in spite of climate pledges and the economic slowdown brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, satellite data reveal.

The Space Force lacks spare parts for much of the equipment needed to support launches from the Eastern and Western Ranges, an issue that could loom larger as launch activities at both spaceports increase. SpaceNews

In 1974, the famous Arecibo Message was sent into space, humanity's first and only attempt at messaging extraterrestrial intelligence. The post What is the Arecibo Message? appeared first on Universe Today.

Planet WASP-103b got its unusual shape by orbiting very close to its parent star.

A survey completed using a combination of ground and space-based telescopes yielded a treasure trove of previously unknown globular clusters--old, dense groups of thousands of stars that all formed at the same time--in t...

It’s almost impossible to comprehend a supernova explosion’s violent, destructive power. An exploding supernova can outshine its host galaxy for a few weeks or even months. That seems almost impossible when consideri...

The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress, issued its 2021 annual report Tuesday examining the agency's safety performance over the past year and highlighting acc...

Stars are giant factories that produce most of the elements in the universe--including the elements in us, and in Earth's metal deposits. But how do stars produce changes over time?

Astronomers are one step closer to revealing the properties of dark matter enveloping our Milky Way galaxy, thanks to a new map of twelve streams of stars orbiting within our galactic halo.

Cadets from the U.S. Air Force Academy will have an opportunity this week to hear from a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

Commander Musilova had to navigate through a 'rogue asteroid field' -- aka a wildfire in Hawaii -- to get her crew safely to the HI-SEAS analog space station for the start of their Martian simulation.

Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have investigated a persistent radio source known as QRS121102 that is associated with the fast radio burst FRB 121102. Results of the study, published Ja...

The Chamaeleon Infrared Nebula is an outflow of gas that resides in the larger Chamaeleon I dark cloud (one of the closest star-forming regions of the Milky Way), and adjacent to the Chamaeleon II and Chamaeleon III dark...

ESA's exoplanet mission Cheops has revealed that an exoplanet orbiting its host star within a day has a deformed shape more like that of a rugby ball than a sphere. This is the first time that the deformation of an exopl...

The Sentinel-1B radar satellite, part of the European Union's Copernicus Earth observation program, hasn't beamed home any data since suffering an anomaly on Dec. 23.

Climate researchers from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will release their annual assessments of global temperatures and discuss the major climate trends of 2021 during a media teleco...