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Maxar is looking to turn its satellite imagery archive into new 3D products for gaming, media and other industries The post Maxar acquires another tech company as it pursues growth in gaming and media appeared first on S...

NASA's InSight lander has detected many marsquakes coming from the same region, which could mean that the Red Planet still experiences volcanic activity The post Mars is Mostly Dead. There's Still Magma Inside, so it's S...

NASA is sticking by its Nov. 14 launch date for its historic Artemis 1 mission even as a subtropical storm develops in the Atlantic Ocean that is heading toward Kennedy Space Center.

The oldest dead star found to have a planetary system, dating back 10.7 billion years, has been discovered covered in the rubble of destroyed worlds.

The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and because such fossils have often been subjected to adv...

It’s almost time to say goodbye to another Martian friend. Plenty of missions to the Red Planet have gone silent for the last time, some after many successful years of data collection and some after a brief free-fall a...

Sometimes it’s tempting to imagine a supernatural hand behind the arrangement of celestial bodies. But the Universe is big, huge even, and nature’s flow presents many fascinations. So it is with the galactic triplet ...

SpaceX had been aiming to launch two telecom satellites on Tuesday (Nov. 8), but the developing Subtropical Storm Nicole has nixed that plan.

We reported a few weeks ago about an Earth gravity assist flyby for the Lucy mission. Around the same as the spacecraft took a dip closer to Earth than the ISS, it took some fantastic pictures of our nearest neighbor –...

Using images from Hubble, an international team of astronomers created a video that shows the evolution of a supernova and the resulting light echo The post Hubble saw Multiple Light Echoes Reflecting off Rings of Dust F...

China has a new, powerful communications satellite heading to geostationary orbit after a successful launch over the weekend.

Inmarsat Government won a $410 million, five-year contract extension to provide internet-of-things satellite connectivity for U.S. Army battlefield tracking devices. The post Inmarsat wins $410 million U.S. Army contract...

Zimbabwe on Monday announced the launch of its first nano-satellite into space in a bid to help collect data to monitor disasters, boost agriculture and enhance mineral mapping.

Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt said discussions between DoD and the Department of Commerce are picking up momentum as both agencies work to figure out how to transition space traffic management to the Office of Space Commerce. Th...

About half of the contiguous 48 states will enjoy mainly clear skies, providing a perfect backdrop for viewing the total eclipse of the moon that will take place early on Election Day morning.

With a bit of luck, the Webb Space Telescope might be able to see a galaxy full of the first stars. The post Can JWST see Galaxies Made of Primordial Stars? appeared first on Universe Today.

A wisp of light reflecting off the moon got caught in Earth's atmosphere, making our neighbor look like a white crown in orbit.

The private Cygnus cargo ship has managed to unfurl just one of its two solar arrays, but the freighter may still be able to reach the space station on Wednesday (Nov. 9) as planned.

Ever since astronomers first detected ultra high energy neutrinos coming from random directions in space, they have not been able to figure out what generates them. But a new hypothesis suggests an unlikely source: the m...

The study of extrasolar planets has led to some astounding discoveries, many of which have defied the expectations of astronomers and challenged our notions about the forms planetary systems can take. For example, the di...

See the sun rise while a total lunar eclipse sets on Tuesday (Nov. 8), in a phenomenon known as a 'selenelion'.

A new model that accounts for the interplay of forces acting on newborn planets can explain two puzzling observations that have cropped up repeatedly among the more than 3,800 planetary systems cataloged to date.