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SpaceX tests all 33 engines on Super Heavy. The worst-case scenario for space debris actually happened. A kilonova is coming. A new map of all the matter and dark matter in the Universe. SpaceX Sets New Record With Succe...

Director Barry Levinson's adaptation of Michael Chricton's underwater sci-fi thriller, "Sphere," turns 25 today.

A new study suggests that advanced civilizations could used black holes as massive quantum computers, a theory that has implications for SETI. The post Do Advanced Civilizations use Black Holes as Giant Quantum Computers...

Since the discovery in 1995 of a planet in orbit around a star other than the sun, research in exoplanetology has revolutionized our knowledge of planetary systems. The SPIRou instrument, installed at the Canada-France-H...

Russia will postpone the launch of an empty space capsule to the International Space Station pending further investigation of a coolant leak on a supply ship docked to the station, the second such leak at a docked Russia...

The Sun belted out strong solar flares two days in a row, as activity ramps up toward the next Solar Maximum, predicted for mid-2025. On Saturday, February 11, a flare classified as X1.1 erupted from the Sun, while just ...

Scientists try to unravel the birth, growth and power of black holes, some of the most forceful yet difficult-to-detect objects in our universe.

A Saudi Arabian woman will reach space for the first time this spring on the private Ax-2 mission to the International Space Station, if all goes according to plan.

Russia said Monday it had delayed the launch of a rescue ship supposed to bring home three astronauts whose planned return vehicle was damaged by a tiny meteoroid.

The moon almost photobombed the Sunday (Feb. 12) SpaceX Falcon 9 launch that took place with Starlink satellites on board.

A large team of scientists has used data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project to create images of the NRAO 530 quasar. The findings are published in The Astrophysical Journal.

Image: For the seventh time, a small asteroid - a meteoroid as astronomers call it- was discovered in space as it raced towards Earth for impact. Thepredicted time and location of the impact (02:50 - 03:03 UTC, above nor...

Image: For the seventh time, a small asteroid - a meteoroid as astronomers call it- was discovered in space as it raced towards Earth for impact. Thepredicted time and location of the impact (02:50 - 03:03 UTC, above nor...

SHIELD director Nick Fury returns to the fray in Marvel Studios' Secret Invasion, the first Disney Plus series of the MCU's Phase 5. Here's what we know so far.

Tonight the moon will reach its third-quarter phase, the last phase in the moon's monthly four-phase cycle. It will continue to wane until the new moon on Feb. 20.

Polish leading R&D aerospace entity: Łukasiewicz - Institute of Aviation (Łukasiewicz - ILOT) concludes 2022 with major advances in its strategic area of green space propulsion and sets off with announcing ambitious pl...

A pair of Earth scientists, one with the University of Calgary, in Canada, the other from the University of Cambridge in the U.K., has found that studying rocks found in Duluth, Minnesota, might help us understand how Ma...

A new National Geographic docuseries by investigative journalist Leslie Kean aims to shed light on the modern UFO phenomenon.

A space rock transformed into a fireball within view of millions on Monday (Feb. 13) about 10 years after the Chelyabinsk event that saw a small space rock explode over a Russian town.

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of more than 400 new high-redshift quasars using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The discovery, published February 3 on the arXiv preprint serve...

The first asteroid to be visited by NASA's Lucy mission now has a name. The International Astronomical Union has approved the name (152830) Dinkinesh for the tiny main belt asteroid that the Lucy spacecraft will encounte...

Saudi Arabia will send its first ever woman astronaut on a space mission later this year, state media has reported, in the latest move to revamp the kingdom's ultra-conservative image.