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The newfound exoplanet K2-415b is not within the habitable zone of its red dwarf host star, but it could have a neighbor that is.

In a recent study, a team of researchers showed how combining interferometry with quantum principles could lead to quantum telescopes. The post Are We Entering the Era of Quantum Telescopes? appeared first on Universe To...

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 that ar...

Commercial lunar lander company Intuitive Machines has completed its merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), raising far less money than originally anticipated. The post Intuitive Machines completes SPA...

There's no evidence that the three mysterious objects shot down recently by U.S. fighter jets came from anywhere other than Earth, White House officials said.

All the stars we can see with the naked eye are part of the Milky Way. The gravitational power of the galaxy’s combined mass binds the stars to the galaxy. But sometimes stars are evicted from the galaxy. These stars a...

A sizable asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth in four centuries on Wednesday evening (Feb. 15), but there's nothing to fear.

A meteoroid lit up the sky above the English Channel early Monday morning February as it streaked through the atmosphere, and because it had been detected just a few hours beforehand - with expert precision on where it c...

A new technique to measure starspots could help test stellar magnetism theories and improve our understanding of habitable zones.

South Korea's first moon mission is now fully operational and unveiling new views of the Earth and moon from lunar orbit.

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) lurk in the center of large galaxies like ours. From their commanding position in the galaxy’s heart, they feed on gas, dust, stars, and anything else that strays too close, growing mor...

Even space robots know what "pics or it didn't happen" means: NASA's Perseverance Mars rover provided a panorama of its recently completed sample depot--a big milestone for the mission and humanity's first collection of ...

Cobham Satcom will supply as many as 170 terminals to Inmarsat for the U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command. The post Cobham to supply satellite terminals to Inmarsat for U.S. Navy network appeared first on SpaceNews.

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft has arrived at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana for the final preparations for launch.

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)--an astronomical interferometer of 66 telescopes in northern Chile, captured an exquisite image of the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star known as Elias 2-24--but sci...

SpaceX has abandoned efforts to convert two oil rigs into launch platforms for its Starship vehicle, but the company still believes that offshore launch platforms will be part of its long-term plans. The post SpaceX drop...

U.S. military space surveillance sensors can be tweaked to help detect high-altitude aerial surveillance platforms in the upper layer of the atmosphere, said John Plumb, assistant secretary of defense for space policy Th...

Minor or G1-class aurora storms may happen overnight in high-latitude areas due to a swarm of particles associated with a big solar outburst on Saturday (Feb. 11).

The U.S. Space Force was created as the sixth branch of the Armed Forces in order to protect U.S. space assets as Earth orbit becomes increasingly contested.

Everything you need to know about the Polaris Program, a series of upcoming commercial space missions carried out by civilian astronauts.

When the Artemis 1 mission was launched by NASA's Space Launch System, SLS, in November, it became the world's most powerful rocket, exceeding the thrust of the previous record holder, Saturn, by 13%. With liftoff came a...

NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft has completed the Mission Critical Design Review and is on track to meet its scheduled 2025 launch. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is managing the...