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A new aerospace company reached orbit with its second rocket launch and deployed multiple small satellites on Saturday.

The Space Development Agency was officially transferred to the U.S. Space Force, Oct. 1. The post Space Development Agency is now officially part of the Space Force appeared first on SpaceNews.

Radio astronomy has been in flux lately. With the permanent loss of the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, a new global power has taken center stage in humanity’s search for radio signals – China. Recently the Chinese...

Astronomers have mapped the location of the Milky Way's black holes and neutron stars. The post The Milky Way is Surrounded by a Vast Graveyard of Dead Stars appeared first on Universe Today.

Hubble Space Telescope observes a lot of galaxies. Some of them are wild-looking while others seem fairly placid. Recently, it looked at NGC 5495, which lies about 300 million light-years away from Earth. You wouldn’t ...

A reliable, flexible mirrorless zoom lens that can be used for almost all types of photography. Expensive, but great for astro and landscape photography.

Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system -- they're called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite found a few particular...

In new research published in Nature Astronomy, we show the cocoon is caused by gamma rays emitted by fast-spinning extreme stars called "millisecond pulsars" located in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, which orbits the Milk...

Clues about water in Earth's deep interior were recently extracted from rare diamonds.

The underground ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus may contain significant amounts of phosphorus, which is vital for life as we know it.

The crewmembers of SpaceX's Crew-5 astronaut mission for NASA made it to Kennedy Space Center in Florida Saturday (Oct. 1), a few days later than originally planned due to Hurricane Ian.

On its yearly journey around the sun Earth is about to pass through a field of debris left by Comet Halley. This will be visible as bright fireballs above Earth peaking in mid-October known as the Orionids.

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.” Or so Stephen King said in his famous Dark Tower series. As of yet, none of those worlds are known to be like Earth. But, according to some new simulations by researchers...