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A team of scientists found NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to measure a specific kind of space dust littered throughout dozens of nearby planetary systems' habitable zones, or the regions around sta...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kongsberg Satellite Services announced plans March 16 to establish a dedicated antenna network for lunar communications. "Building and operating networks is our core competency," Arnulf Kjeldsen, KSAT exe...

Watch it go! NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission is on its way to the launch pad.

Bilateral U.S.-Russia space talks that had begun before the invasion of Ukraine are off the table for now, a U.S. State Department official said March 17. The post International talks on space norms to continue but U.S. ...

In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You’ll only be visible in the southern hemisphere after today’s topic: the Magellanic Clouds! The Magellanic Clouds are the two large...

There might be different populations of these powerful cosmic flashes, new research suggests.

The Elegoo Mars 2 Pro is a resin-based 3D printer with plenty of tricks up its red acrylic hood.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are the brightest millisecond-duration astronomical transients in radio bands with a yet unknown origin.

NASA's massive new rocket is poised to make its first journey to a launchpad on Thursday ahead of a battery of tests that will clear it to blast off to the Moon this summer.

Satellite images also show extensive damage in the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol, Sumy, Chernihiv and Kharkiv.

The golden spiral arms of a distant galaxy sparkle in new images from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

Video: 01:01:27 Replay of the media information session following the 306th ESA Council, held on 16 and 17 March 2022 in Paris, France. Updates were provided on ESA's main programmes, the outcome of the 16 February Space...

Why is there so much antimatter in the Universe? Ordinary matter is far more plentiful than antimatter, but scientists keep detecting more and more antimatter in the form of positrons. More positrons reach Earth than sta...

The Worm full moon of March peaks early Friday, March 18, but still appears full for a day or two.

A European Mars rover built in partnership with Russia will not launch to the Red Planet this year as the European Space Agency suspends cooperation with its Russian counterpart in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukrain...

If you've ever been stuck in a nightmare traffic jam, you know that "black hole from which you can never escape" captures the feeling well.

ESA has formally halted plans to launch its ExoMars mission on a Russian rocket in September in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The post ESA suspends work with Russia on ExoMars mission appeared first on SpaceN...

Oh, hello there new neighbor!  In February, the Gaia spacecraft took a picture of its new closest companion in space at the second Lagrangian point, the James Webb Space Telescope. Gaia is an optical telescope that is m...

Because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe will no longer be attempting this year to send its first rover to Mars, which was to have probed whether the planet ever hosted life.

Nothing says springtime on Mars like defrosting dunes.

By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, Chinese astronomers have discovered 541 new open cluster candidates in the disk of our Milky Way galaxy. The finding, which includes median parameters of these cluster can...

As the pieces of Brazil's modern space ecosystem slide into place, the country isn't just now waking up to the value and potential in the space ecosystem. It is entering its "second act." The post Op-ed | Order and Progr...