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The Hubble Space Telescope captured an open star cluster known as NGC 2660, which contains hundreds of loosely bound stars in the constellation of Vela.

India's national space agency ISRO has begun testing a mock crew module for the country's most ambitious mission, Gaganyaan.

SpaceX plans to launch 55 of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit just after midnight on Sunday (Feb. 12), and you can watch it live -- if the weather cooperates.

Amateur astronomer Giuseppe Donatiello discovered three faint galaxies that machine learning missed. The post Humans Can Still Find Galaxies That Machine Learning Algorithms Miss appeared first on Universe Today.

Shackleton Crater at the lunar south pole is one of the locations on NASA's shortlist for human exploration with the future Artemis missions. But because craters at the lunar poles — like Shackleton — at have areas t...

A Progress cargo spacecraft docked to the International Space Station experienced a coolant leak Feb. 11, the second such incident involving a Russian spacecraft at the station in less than two months. The post Progress ...

A robotic Progress freighter docked to the space station just sprung a leak, two months after a similar issue arose on a Russian Soyuz crew spacecraft.

This week, NASA's Curiosity rover stumbled across the best evidence yet that liquid water once covered much of Mars in the planet's distant past: undulating rippled rock formations - now frozen in time - that were sculpt...

European astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected a previously unknown asteroid about the size of Rome's Colosseum in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

One NASA-funded lunar cubesat has recovered from a communications glitch while engineers are developing backup plans for another cubesat that has suffered a propulsion problem. The post Lunar cubesats encounter technical...

Inmarsat says it is still considering deploying a low Earth orbit constellation of its own despite comments to the contrary by one of its executives this week. The post Inmarsat remains open to ordering its own LEO const...