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A joint research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Aarhus University has found a constraint of the convective core overshoot in low-mass stars and a correlation between the strengt...

The long-delayed first launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Virginia is now scheduled for late this year, carrying satellites for HawkEye 360. The post Rocket Lab to launch HawkEye 360 satellites on first Wallops ...

It's confirmed: The hottest rock ever discovered in Earth's crust really was super-hot.

Imagine standing on Mars, and seeing this with your own eyes. The Perseverance rover watched as the potato-shaped moon Phobos passed in front of the Sun, from the vantage point of Jezero Crater on Mars. Perseverance used...

"Space related rules and norms of responsible behavior are in our interest," said deputy assistant secretary of defense John Hill The post DoD a main proponent of anti-satellite test ban: 'We are not disarming' appeared ...

The test version of a unique satellite navigation receiver has been delivered for integration testing on the Lunar Pathfinder spacecraft. The NaviMoon satnav receiver is designed to perform the farthest ever positioning ...

OneWeb has signed a contract to use India's largest launch vehicle to deploy at least some of its remaining LEO broadband satellites this year, according to a company executive. The post OneWeb signs contract to launch s...

The Sun emitted two solar flares on April 19, 2022, one moderate peaking at 9:35 p.m. EST and one strong peaking at 11:57 p.m. EST. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image o...

The tiny Mars moon Phobos looms large on the sun's face in dramatic eclipse footage captured by NASA's Perseverance rover.

A new study has revealed new insights into Pluto's orbit, which is subject to a lot of chaotic perturbance over time! The post Pluto’s Orbit is Surprisingly Unstable appeared first on Universe Today.

Since its first crewed flight in 2020, SpaceX has continued to launch astronauts to the International Space Station and return them home to Earth as part of a partnership with NASA.

In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You'll be the biggest thing in town after today’s topic: galaxy clusters! Galaxy clusters are the single largest gravitationally bound...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has captured dramatic footage of Phobos, Mars' potato-shaped moon, crossing the face of the Sun. These observations can help scientists better understand the moon's orbit and how its gravit...

Skywatchers will finally be able to enjoy the thrill of observing "shooting stars" again this week as the April Lyrids shower arrives after a three-month-long meteor drought.

The vehicles replace the Astrovans used for the space shuttle program, between 1983 and 2011.

Ever since they were discovered in 2018, fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) have utterly surprised and completely confounded both observational and theoretical astrophysicists.

In some of the most crowded parts of the universe, black holes may be tearing apart thousands of stars and using their remains to pack on weight. This discovery, made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, could help ans...

SpaceX performed a "static fire" test of Crew-4's Falcon 9 rocket today (April 20), briefly igniting the rocket's first-stage engines while holding the vehicle down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Intermediate-mass black holes are notoriously hard to find but a new study indicates there may be some at the center of dense, star clusters located throughout the universe.

There were reports of a shortwave radio blackout over Australia, the Western Pacific and eastern Asia.

Some inspired casting and a welcome return from one character make muddling through the rest bearable

A Ukrainian space tech start-up has postponed its goal of going to the moon to volunteer its technology to fight Russia. But they still believe they will get there one day.