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Using the 4.1-meter SOAR Telescope in Chile, astronomers have discovered the first example of a binary system where a star in the process of becoming a white dwarf is orbiting a neutron star that has just finished turnin...

Virgin Orbit is preparing to launch a set of smallsats as both a demonstration of the flexibility of its air-launch system and its ability to increase its cadence of launches. SpaceNews

Aladin Lite is one of the greatest online tools available to look at our universe through the eyes of many different telescopes.

NASA and the Department of Education are collaborating to enhance the federal Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Scholar Recognition Program using NASA entrepreneurial expertise.

The Expedition 66 crew kicked off Monday promoting space agriculture and observing how the human cell adapts to weightlessness....

Megaripples, intermediate-scale bedforms caused by the action of the wind, have been studied extensively and thought to be largely inactive relics of past climates, save for a few exceptions. A new paper by Planetary Sci...

Just weeks after the excitement of launch, the James Webb Space Telescope is already seeking focus in space.

A huge asteroid will safely whiz by our planet next week.

China's Chang'e-5 lunar lander has found evidence of hydroxyl (OH) on the Moon. Hydroxyl is a close chemical cousin of water, H2O. While several other orbital missions have detected OH on the Moon previously, Chang'e-5 m...

Media accreditation is open for the launch of Northrop Grumman's 17th commercial resupply services mission for NASA to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station aboard its...

The spacecraft is riding out a dust storm, but the agency said it hopes to resume normal operations next week.

U.S. military satellite procurements and contracts for launch services have been put on hold and cannot move forward until Congress passes a full-year defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2022. SpaceNews

It’s another first for astronomy. For the first time, a team of astronomers have imaged in real-time as a red supergiant star reached the end of its life. They watched as the star convulsed in its death throes before f...

Earth is surrounded by a vast bubble about 1,000 light-years wide whose borders drive the formation of all nearby young stars, a new study finds.

The Space Development Agency, created in 2019 as a separate entity under the Office of the Secretary of Defense, will be transferred to the U.S. Space Force in October, the agency's director confirmed Jan. 12. SpaceNews

The Milky Way had a sausage galaxy breakfast about 8 billion years ago The post The Milky Way’s Most Recent Meal was a Galaxy it Gobbled up 8-10 Billion Years ago appeared first on Universe Today.

Some of the agency's Earth-observing satellites have been in operation since the late 1990s or early 2000s.

The results of a comprehensive search for a background of ultra-low frequency gravitational waves has been announced by an international team of astronomers including scientists from the Institute for Gravitational Wave ...

Find out how track the International Space Station from Earth and see where it is right now.

The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars--but how did those stars form?

From Archimedes to Galileo, here are some fun facts you might not have known about these scientists.

Water was spotted on the moon nearly 15 years ago, but it was detected in real time on the lunar surface only by orbiters before now.