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As Satellogic prepares to launch its latest imaging satellites, the company has slashed revenue projections, resulting in layoffs and delays in construction of a new factory. The post Revenue shortfall causes layoffs and...

A wild theory suggests that consciousness may explain quantum mechanics, by forcing the subatomic particles to choose one concrete outcome.

Stars in the NGC 2002 cluster glitter in a new Hubble Space Telescope image of deep space.

South Korea's first-ever lunar orbiter Danuri has sent black-and-white photos of the Moon's surface and Earth, the national space center said Tuesday.

Efforts to create a memorial celebrating the legacy of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played a pointy-eared alien named Spock on “Star Trek,” have shifted to warp speed nearly eight years after his death. A six-figure ...

Omnipresent fireworks displays won't be the only lights in the sky over the next few nights: There will be natural spectacles, too.

NASA has awarded the Space and Earth Sciences Data Analysis-V (SESDA-V) contract to ADNET Systems, Inc. of Bethesda, Maryland, to provide Earth and Space Science research and development at the agency's Goddard Space Fli...

Former astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew into space on Apollo 7, the first flight with crew in NASA's Apollo Program, died early Tuesday morning in Houston. He was 90 years old.

The U.S. Space Systems Command on Jan. 3 launched a cubesat intended to demonstrate commercial weather imaging technologies for military use. The post Space Force launches weather-imaging cubesat for year-long demonstrat...

Earth’s oxygen-rich atmosphere does more than provide the foundation for complex life. The oxygen in the atmosphere is so reactive that it readily combines with other chemical elements. Together, they form important or...

A large volcanic outburst was discovered on Jupiter's moon Io by Jeff Morgenthaler of the Planetary Science Institute using PSI's Io Input/Output observatory (IoIO).

Iridium has entered into a service provider agreement with a company widely expected to be Samsung to connect its satellites to smartphones. The post Iridium enters service agreement for direct-to-smartphone satellite se...

Many black hole collisions may occur in densely packed star clusters, hinting at what might cause these violent mergers.

After a record-setting year of launch activity in 2022, SpaceX kicked off the new year Jan. 3 with a Falcon 9 launch of more than 110 smallsats. The post SpaceX begins 2023 with Transporter-6 launch appeared first on Spa...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a pair of galaxies distorting each other as they merge in a great galactic get-together.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched this morning (Jan. 3) from Florida, carrying 114 satellites to orbit -- the second-most spacecraft ever lofted on a single mission.

An international team of space scientists has imaged the magnetic field that exists in the acceleration zone of the Vela pulsar. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes how they used data from...

The second moon race is in full swing, with the world's two big superpowers angling to score a new set of firsts on the lunar surface. NASA's Artemis program recently clocked up its first success with the splashdown of O...

Twenty-seven years ago, at the University of Geneva, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz--now a professor at ETH--discovered the first extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star. Much has happened since that initial discovery...

A metallic alloy of chromium, cobalt, and nickel is over 100 times tougher than graphene and gets even more resistant to damage at extremely low temperatures.

Using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), astronomers have observed a chemically peculiar star known as HD 213258. In result, they found that HD 213258 is a rapidly oscillating, strongly magnetic Ap star. The find...

Despite a small funding increase for 2023, NASA's planetary science programs still face "significant stress" financially that contributed to the delay of one mission and could push back the start of others. The post NASA...