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Showing a sky full of stars, the globular cluster Terzan 9 glitters in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Film fans, gamers and future metaverse users will be able to experience high-quality videos, games and extended reality environments live and uninterrupted from anywhere, as satellites link up with terrestrial-based next...

ESA and NASA dusted off some old data from four retired space telescopes and combined forces to reveal new images of the four galaxies that our closest to our own Milky Way galaxy. One thing is common among the four new ...

The mission's team has chosen to operate its seismometer longer than previously planned, although the lander will run out of power sooner as a result.

SpaceX warned June 21 that its Starlink broadband network would become unusable for most Americans if a proposal to use the 12 GHz band for terrestrial 5G is approved. The post SpaceX warns 5G plan would deny Starlink to...

The earliest mention of asteroid mining might be in a story from 1898 titled “Edison’s Conquest of Mars,” by Garrett Serviss. In that story, Martians attack Earth, killing tens of thousands and destroying New York ...

The third Gaia Data Release (DR3) has been released, and is already leading to some major breakthroughs in astronomy! The post Gaia's Massive Third Data Release is out! appeared first on Universe Today.

People around the world celebrated the summer solstice today (June 21), as did some satellites in space.

Propstore is auctioning off a screen-matched 'Red Leader' X-wing model from 1977's "Star Wars."

A host of biomedical studies filled the Expedition 67 crew's day as NASA and its international partners continue exploring how living in space long-term affects the human body....

NASA's fourth attempt to complete a critical test of its Moon rocket achieved around 90 percent of its goals, but there's still no firm date for the behemoth's first flight, officials said Tuesday.

The extremely salty, very cold, and almost oxygen-free environment under the permafrost of Lost Hammer Spring in Canada's High Arctic is the one that most closely resembles certain areas on Mars. So, if you want to learn...

SpaceX and OneWeb have written a joint letter to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission declaring harmony in orbit for spectrum coordination between their satellite-internet constellations.

The House Appropriations Committee in a report accompanying the fiscal year 2023 defense appropriations bill warned about schedule and cost risks in Space Force acquisition programs. The post House Appropriations Committ...

Space research hardware kept the Expedition 67 crew busy on Friday as the four astronauts and three cosmonauts turned on free-flying robots, configured nanosatellites, and replaced a fuel bottle inside a furnace....

The 4-meter-wide International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) at Devasthal Observatory in the central Himalayas comes online.

A new SwRI study describes how unique populations of craters on two of Saturn's moons could help indicate the satellites' age and the conditions of their formation. Using data from NASA's Cassini mission, SwRI postdoctor...

The newly unearthed fossil is a cousin to the Jurassic Park favorite -- the spinosaurus.

The Nikon 10x50 Aculon A211 binoculars are sleek, well made and offer great value optics in a wide field of view.

From orbit, this landscape on Mars looks like a lacy honeycomb or a spider web. But the unusual polygon-shaped features aren't created by Martian bees or spiders; they are actually formed from a ongoing process of season...

NASA is preparing to launch Starling, its first satellite swarm. Instead of communicating directly with the four Starling cubesats, mission operators will send instructions to the swarm as a single entity. The post Throu...

Through the Starling mission, NASA and SpaceX will begin testing strategies for preventing autonomous satellites from crashing into each other. The post NASA, SpaceX to test satellite crash-prevention strategies appeared...