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Webb's novel system will let the observatory peer deep into the universe's history.

Russia is ready to reactivate its moon exploration agenda, a former Soviet Union enterprise that ended decades ago, with the launch of the Luna 25 mission this summer.

SpaceX's Elon Musk said Thursday that the first orbital flight of his towering Starship--the world's most powerful rocket ever built--could come in another month or two.

The Pentagon is now looking at how it will implement a 'zero trust' cybersecurity architecture across all DoD systems. The post DoD and satcom industry to work out details of how to build 'zero trust' networks appeared f...

NASA has selected a spacecraft to study the sun's corona and a cluster of smallsats to monitor turbulence in the solar wind as its next Explorer-class heliophysics missions. The post NASA selects two heliophysics mission...

The European Space Agency announced plans Feb. 9 to host an international office to coordinate global climate modeling efforts for at least five years. The post ESA to host flagship office to coordinate global climate mo...

Wyvern has secured funds for deployable optics technology that the Canadian startup believes is key to creating a thriving commercial marketplace for hyperspectral imagery. The post Wyvern gets funding to expand hyperspe...

Hereford, and its surrounding colourful patchwork of agricultural fields, is featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image....

A host of human research activities dominated Thursday's research schedule aboard the International Space Station....

A stunning SpaceX animation released Thursday (Feb. 10) shows the Starship system on a future voyage to Mars.

Mars is a parched planet ruled by global dust storms. It’s also a frigid world, where night-time winter temperatures fall to -140 C (-220 F) at the poles. But it wasn’t always a dry, barren, freezing, inhospitable wa...

The number of planets discovered beyond our Solar System has grown exponentially in the past twenty years, with 4,919 confirmed exoplanets (and another 8,493 awaiting confirmation)! Combined with improved instruments and...

The nonprofit Space for Humanity is accepting applications through Feb. 15 for its Citizen Astronaut Program, which trains folks for spaceflight and will foot the bill for their trip to the final frontier.

Star light, star bright, the James Webb Space Telescope has seen its first star (though it wasn't quite tonight)--and even taken a selfie, NASA announced Friday.

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Excitement runs high as NASA scientists capture the first images and spot their first starlight with the agency's James Webb Space Telescope.

All through history, humans have created and shared stories that ponder the creation of stars--what they are and how the first stars came to be. Now, with new results from the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA),...

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A team of astronomers have made the discovery of a lifetime that will help answer burning questions on the evolution of stars. The group is led by Evolutionary Studies Initiative member and Stevenson Professor of Physics...

Exactly how many stars are in the universe is impossible to know because we aren't sure of its scale.

Just over 12 months ago, we were sitting at Woomera, in the Australian outback, waiting for a streak of light in the sky to testify that the Hayabusa2 spacecraft had returned from its voyage to collect a little piece of ...

The team behind NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released some of the first images from the much-anticipated observatory on Friday (Feb. 11).