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Recently, a joint research team from National Time Service Center (NTSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of CAS and SKA Observatory used the Shanghai Tianma Radio Telesc...

On April 18, NASA decided to move forward with plans to complete the deployment of the Lucy spacecraft's stalled, unlatched solar array. The spacecraft is powered by two large arrays of solar cells that were designed to ...

In a new analysis of their gravitational wave data, scientists with the international LIGO-Virgo Collaboration have discovered 10 new examples of merging binary black holes.

Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein: The Space Force needs to "understand where we need tactically responsive launch, but more importantly, tactically responsive space." The post Space Force looking at U.S. needs for 'responsive s...

South Korea is boosting its space spending this year by 19% over 2021 levels as it seeks to bounce back from October's failed attempt to prove it can put up a satellite without Russian rocket hardware. The post South Kor...

Read the latest news about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is now cooled by a gaseous helium cryocooler to under 7 Kelvin. With the cooler in its final state, the Webb team is operating the MIRI instrument t...

In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You'll feel a little cooler after reading about today’s topic: sunspots! Sunspots are regions on the surface of the Sun that appear da...

Even during times of conflict on the ground, space has historically been an arena of collaboration among nations. But trends in the past decade suggest that the nature of cooperation in space is shifting, and fallout fro...

While the James Webb Space Telescope is almost at its deep space temperature, NASA officials wrote in an update, there's no firm timeline on when it will get cool enough.

Scientists search for the missing link between humans and Neanderthals.

Over the past 32 years, Hubble has made about 1.4 million observations of our Universe. Physicist Casey Handmer was curious how much of the sky has been imaged by Hubble, and so has now mapped out all of Hubble's observa...

These pictures depict the magnificent wonders of our planet, yet, they weren't taken anywhere on Earth. Instead, they were captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station to chronicle the fragile beauty and...

Astrobotic just unveiled the flight model of its robotic Peregrine lunar lander, which is slated to launch to the moon late this year.

Charlie Duke is part of a tiny fraternity that's getting even smaller: People who walked on the moon.

In 1930, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered the fabled "Ninth Planet" (or "Planet X") while working at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. The existence of this body had been predicted previously based on per...

The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator is about to turn back on.

The reason Venus isn't tidally locked could be its thick atmosphere. The post Venus' Atmosphere Stops it From Locking to the Sun appeared first on Universe Today.

Inside the latest issue of All About Space you'll find incredible solar system facts, the tale of stellar remnants and a mystery surrounding strange filaments in the Milky Way.

The sun is a beehive of flaring activity in a stunning new photo from a NASA spacecraft.

If man's best friend is a dog, then in the future astronauts' closest companions might well be rovers. A technique allowing astronauts in orbit to control rovers exploring planetary surfaces has been developed by a resea...

A key committee of scientists has recommended that a flagship mission to Uranus should be NASA's highest-priority large planetary science mission for the next decade.