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This photo from NASA's InSight lander on Mars just may be its last as the power-starved lander approaches the end of its life on the Red Planet.

A commitment to diversity honoring "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry will soon blast off to the final frontier.

Using data from Hubble and Spitzer, an international team has discovered two new waterworlds in one system. The post Hubble and Spitzer Team up to Find a Pair of Waterworld Exoplanets appeared first on Universe Today.

The design for the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) prototype antenna has passed an intensive, five-day review, clearing the way to begin manufacturing the prototype antenna. The review in Wiesbaden, Germany was ...

Astronomers have discovered two Earth-like exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf near our solar system that orbit their star with respective 'years' lasting just 10 and 21 days.

Two NASA astronauts will conduct a spacewalk early Wednesday (Dec. 21) to install new solar arrays on the International Space Station, and you can watch it live.

NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the Sentinel-6B mission.

Using data from the JWST, an international team of astronomers have made the first observations of stars in quasars that existed 1 billion years after the Big Bang. The post Astronomers Spot Stars in the Most Distant Gal...

Future wind satellites should increase vertical resolution to better resolve gravity waves in the tropics, writes a team of researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), the European Space Ag...

SpaceX will soon start launching a new generation of Starlink broadband satellites, which could help the company deal with surging demand, according to a report.

Scientists may have explained the mysterious distribution of small satellite galaxies around our Milky Way that has long puzzled astronomers, but not everyone is in agreement.

Here’s a thorny problem: What if life doesn’t always appear on planets that can support it? What if we find more and more exoplanets and determine that some of them are habitable? What if we also determine that life ...

NASA lost contact with its Mars InSight lander on Monday (Dec. 18) after the spacecraft failed to respond to communications from its control team.

Recent observations of a black hole devouring a wandering star may help scientists understand more complex black hole feeding behaviors.

It could be the end of the red dusty line for NASA's InSight lander, which has fallen silent after four years on Mars.

NASA restoration wizard Andy Saunders on Apollo 17's restored photos in his new book, "Apollo Remastered"

Europe's Vega C rocket is scheduled to launch on its second-ever mission on Tuesday night (Dec. 20), and you can watch the action live.

Ph.D. candidate Cui Yingzhen and Prof. Meng Xiangcun from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) performed hydrodynamic simulations on the common-envelope wind model of Type Ia supernovae (SNe ...

China has revealed that four international experiments will fly on its historic Chang'e 6 sample-return mission to the far side of the moon in 2025.

The moon will be at new moon phase on Dec. 23 when the Ursid meteor shower reaches its peak, meaning it won't provide any hindrance at all for meteor watching.

A group of MPIA astronomers has managed to identify the "poor old heart of the Milky Way"--a population of stars left over from the earliest history of our home galaxy, which resides in our galaxy's core regions.

A pair of researchers at NASA working with a colleague from the University of Colorado at Boulder and another from the University of Washington-Seattle has found evidence suggesting that there might be enough wind on Mar...