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Set to blast off on Aug. 4, South Korea's pathfinding Danuri mission will measure magnetic anomalies and scan the lunar surface.

A newly launched Russian spy satellite may be tasked with stalking one of its American counterparts.

A new hypothesis proposes that a large fraction of dark matter may be bound up inside tight balls the size of Neptune -- so-called dark matter planets.

The most distant measure of dark matter suggests the universe might have behaved differently in the past. The post Astronomers Measure the Signal of Dark Matter From 12 Billion Years ago appeared first on Universe Today.

The first of the Polaris program launches should lift off in December 2022, its billionaire commander says.

Shaun, the title character from the television series "Shaun the Sheep," has been assigned a space on NASA's upcoming Artemis 1 moon mission.

As satellites crawl across the sky, they reflect light from the sun back down to Earth, especially during the first few hours after sunset and the first few hours before sunrise. As more companies launch networks of sate...

NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Re-ionization, and Ic...

Following the successful launch of NASA's Lucy spacecraft on Oct. 16, 2021, a group of engineers huddled around a long conference table in Titusville, Florida. Lucy was mere hours into its 12-year flight, but an unexpect...

Hundreds of thousands of people used flight-tracking websites to follow the path of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's historic flight into Taiwan on Tuesday (Aug. 2).

The rocket will carry the Space-Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight 6 (SBIRS Geo-6) satellite into orbit.

Startup Xona Space Systems has raised around $15 million for its proposed navigation constellation, including funds from GPS satellite maker Lockheed Martin's venture capital arm. The post Lockheed invests in Xona's GPS-...

NASA issued a notice changing the rules on privately run crewed missions to the ISS after the experience of Ax-1, which saw its private astronauts ask the ISS crew for help.

The Perseid meteor shower, one of the most anticipated and popular night-sky shows of the year, is likely to be upstaged by August's full moon.

New research indicates that while our perceived control takes a dip after a breakup, it gradually rises again with time.

A new study uses a signal emitted shortly after the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background, to explore how dark matter is distributed around ancient galaxies.

A lunar sample and a piece of the rocket that enabled its collection are set to launch on NASA's next mission to the moon. The Apollo 11 artifacts are part of the Artemis 1 Official Flight Kit.

Galaxy clusters allow us to study a broad range of rich processes -- including magnetism and plasma physics -- in environments we can't recreate in our labs.

The third time really was the charm for Dude Perfect co-founder Coby Cotton.

The European Space Agency is ending efforts to restore operations of the Sentinel-1B radar imaging satellite that malfunctioned more than half a year ago and will instead move up the launch of a replacement. The post ESA...

Celestron's Skymaster 25x100 is our favorite for the best large astronomy binoculars.

A new study has revealed that a record-breaking amount of water vapor entered Earth's atmosphere after a volcanic eruption in Tonga in January.