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What’s the loudest sound you’ve ever heard? Many people will say an aircraft engine unless they are lucky enough to have attended a rocket launch. And if there was one rocket that was louder than them all, it was the...

The FCC wants to require operators of low Earth orbit satellites to deorbit their spacecraft within five years after their mission ends, a much shorter timeframe than currently required. The post FCC to set five-year dea...

Today NASA uses wheeled rovers to navigate the surface of Mars and conduct planetary science, but research involving Texas A&M University scientists will test the feasibility of new surface-exploration technology: walkin...

New research suggests that tetrapods may have evolved slower due to having fewer skull bones.

An independent review of Ligado's planned deployment of a terrestrial wireless network concluded that it will likely interfere with GPS signals and with space-based communications services provided by Iridium. The post R...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft recently got its first look at Didymos, the double-asteroid system that includes its target, Dimorphos. On Sept. 26, DART will intentionally crash into Dimorphos,...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter just flew for the 31st time on Mars, acing a short hop that took it closer to an ancient Red Planet river delta.

Plebes and patricians were just some of the people who made up the Roman Hierarchy.

New images of the Sun's chromosphere - the lower region of the solar atmosphere — have been released, and to say they are 'stellar' is an understatement. Simply, they are stunning. The high-resolution images were taken...

Using the astrometry technique, an international team of astronomers has created the first 3D architecture of a binary star system with an exoplanet. The post A Planet has Been Found Orbiting Two Stars appeared first on ...

The FCC has a new rule pending in its ongoing fight against space debris.

HawkEye 360 is looking at a new round of funding, and possibly going public in a couple of years, CEO John Serafini said Sept. 8. The post HawkEye 360 plans new funding round as it positions to go public appeared first o...

This interesting image from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a field of fascinating dunes called barchan dunes. These dunes have formed along a cliff in Chasma Boreale, in the North Pole of Mars...

This basic portable refractor telescope is suitable for lunar observations and comes complete with a backpack for easy transportation.

Earlier this week, the Artemis I moon mission was scrubbed again; now we have to wait for a new launch window.

New documentary 'Good Night Oppy' explores the intrepid Opportunity Mars rover's 15-year odyssey on the Red Planet.

Maser emissions, "cosmic lasers" from interstellar and circumstellar medium, are produced by the amplification of stimulated emissions. Bright and compact maser sources are good targets for high-accuracy astrometry in th...

Black holes are astronomical objects with extremely strong gravitational pulls from which not even light can escape. While the idea of bodies that would trap light has been around since the 18th century, the first direct...

An international team of researchers has found evidence indicating that despite the hostile environmental conditions on Mars, the equipment used by rovers on its surface should be capable of detecting evidence of life if...

The search for signs of life, past or present, on Mars may have hit a stumbling blocks as new results show how the rovers will be unable to detect biomarkers on the surface.

A variety of techniques could potentially resurrect lost species, whether completely extinct or merely extirpated from the wild.

A new satellite launching this weekend could be conspicuously bright once it's unfurled in orbit. The post BlueWalker-3 Satellite Launches This Weekend, May Be Bright appeared first on Universe Today.