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A new simulation maps the first few seconds after the Big Bang, focusing on what scientists call the intergalactic medium, or the gas and dust between galaxies.

For the first time, researchers have created simulations that directly recreate the full life cycle of some of the largest collections of galaxies observed in the distant universe 11 billion years ago, reports a new stud...

While the Mars InSight lander is still waiting for a passing dust devil to clean off its solar panels, it appears the Perseverance rover sees dust devils several times a day. A new paper detailing the first 216 days of P...

The dust trail from the largest comet outburst on record will be visible to amateur astronomers in late July 2022.

An asteroid demolition derby took place between 7.8 million and 11.7 million years after the birth of the solar system.

"It felt like no other ISS imaging session before," photographer Szabolcs Nagy said.

Russian cosmonaut Valery Ryumin, who launched on four space station missions including the final U.S. space shuttle flight to dock with the former Mir outpost, has died.

The Artemis 1 stack rolled out to Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39B today (June 6) for the second time, gearing up for another crack at its 'wet dress rehearsal.'

We’re about to reach a milestone that many thought we would never reach. After years of wrangling, cost overruns, threats of cancellation, and lobbying by the science community, the James Webb Space Telescope is only w...

SpaceX's Starship vehicle will operate like a gigantic flying Pez dispenser on some missions, if all goes according to plan.

If aliens exist, they do exist, they might be hanging out on Dyson spheres circling the husks of sunlike stars called white dwarfs.

The three Shenzhou-14 astronauts -- commander Chen Dong and Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe -- are settling in for a lengthy stay aboard China's Tiangong space station.

A team of researchers from the University of Central Florida will be exploring an unknown and mysterious region of the moon.

The planet Mars is calling to us. At least, that is the impression one gets when examining all the planned and proposed missions to the red planet in the coming decade. With so many space agencies currently sending missi...

SpaceX's Starlink broadband network reclaimed permission to operate in France June 2 following a month-long public consultation in the country. The post Starlink regains permission to operate in France appeared first on ...

Indian space startup Bellatrix Aerospace said June 1 that it had raised $8 million in a Series A funding round to pursue the development of in-space propulsion systems. The post India's Bellatrix Aerospace raises $8 mill...

An international team of scientists today released the largest near-infrared image ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, enabling astronomers to map the star-forming regions of the universe and learn how the earli...

We've been keeping close track of Ingeniuity's progress here at Universe Today. Following the little helicopter that could hasn't always been easy – with almost 30 flights logged covering over 7 kilometers and consiste...

Using the AstroSat spacecraft, Indian astronomers have inspected a galactic globular cluster known as NGC 5053. Results of the study, presented in a paper published May 27 on the arXiv pre-print repository, provide impor...

A test of whether asteroid surveys could spot a potentially hazardous asteroid successfully rediscovered Apophis and ruled out the possibility of it striking Earth for the next 100 years.

Bayankhongor, Mongolia (44.6°N 101.0°E), 30 May 2022...

The powerhouse of Gateway, NASA's orbiting outpost around the Moon and a critical piece of infrastructure for Artemis, is in the midst of several electric propulsion system tests....