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Lego's Boba Fett's Starship might be smaller than recent standalone sets, but this near pitch-perfect build is certainly befitting the baddest bounty hunter in the galaxy.

A mysterious and very distant object, in a universe as it was 'just' two billion years after the Big Bang, hides from even the most advanced instruments. Its features have finally been described by a team from SISSA in a...

New photos from the European Mars Express orbiter highlight the planet's diverse surface geology and show how tectonic activity and running water created the fascinating features we see today.

Now's the time to catch periodic Comet 96P Machholz on its encore dawn performance, before it slides out of view. The post Check Out This Great View of Comet 96P Machholz, Courtesy of SOHO appeared first on Universe Toda...

By accidentally finding a tiny Washington Monument-sized asteroid, the James Webb Space Telescope has demonstrated how useful it can be much closer to home.

Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have finished testing the high-gain antenna for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. When it launches by May 2027, this NASA observatory will help...

Executives with plans to connect satellites directly to smartphones sparred at the SmallSat Symposium Feb. 7 over which spectrum strategy will lead to success in this emerging market. The post Spectrum strategy divides e...

Sateliot and Sentrisense plan to offer satellite connectivity for electric grid sensors. The post Sateliot and Sentrisense forge pact to monitor electric grid appeared first on SpaceNews.

In 1992, humanity’s effort to understand the Universe took a significant step forward. That’s when astronomers discovered the first exoplanets. They’re named Poltergeist (Noisy Ghost) and Phobetor (Frightener), and...

The space industry does not expect its growth to be dampened by congestion or doom-and-gloom narrative, executives said Feb. 7 at the SmallSat Symposium. The post Space industry undeterred by congestion and debris appear...

Two watch brands are celebrating the historic associations they had with the U.S. space program. Accutron is reviving its "Astronaut" line, while Bulova is continuing its "Lunar Pilot" series.

Some previous detections of Chinese surveillance balloons in U.S. airspace were initially categorized as "unidentified aerial phenomena," according to a report in The New York Times.

More than 500 astronomers from all over Europe, including members of Catalan universities and research centers--the UPC and the ICCUB--have designed and planned a total of five years of operations for the WEAVE spectrogr...

Galaxies fill a lot of roles in the universe. The most obvious one is star formation factories. Without that activity, the cosmos would be a very different place. The European Southern Observatory and the Atacama Large M...

A United States company may touch down on the moon for the first time in 2023, but who will make the debut landing is hard to predict.

Astronomers have directly imaged a brown dwarf, a so-called "failed star," in the Hyades cluster, which lies 150 light-years from Earth.

In 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountered the Pluto-Charon system, the Southwest Research Institute-led science team discovered interesting, geologically active objects instead of the inert icy orbs previo...

Southampton researchers have developed the world's first robust method for estimating the value and mass of space junk.

Students from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 9 in Rochester, New York, will have an opportunity this week to hear from a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

ULA's heavy-lift Vulcan Centaur rocket could launch for the first time in the next few months, if testing continues to go well.

On Jan. 31, 2023, Boeing completed its last 747, the airplane that helped make international air travel affordable.

Taking those bucolic wildlife shots has now entered your life. Frame amazing mountain and seaside scenes for $200 cheaper.