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irgin Orbit provided additional details about the likely cause of its LauncherOne failure last month but didn't estimate when the vehicle will be ready to return to flight. The post Virgin Orbit elaborates on potential c...

The Defense Department's space policy office is drafting a congressionally mandated report explaining how the U.S. will defend satellites in orbit. The post Pentagon working with Congress on unclassified space strategy a...

The comet C/2022 A2 (Pan-STARRS) will reach perihelion, or the closest point to the sun in its orbit, on Sunday, Feb. 18. The comet will be visible from Earth at dawn and dusk.

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy with very little or no stellar mass. Galaxies like these are called ‘dark galaxies.’ It contains clouds of gas but very few stars, possibly none. This is the only isolated dark dw...

Seeds sent along with a Chinese astronaut mission have been returned to Pakistan following a six-month-long stay aboard the Tiangong space station.

"Someone's on the move," Jeffrey Lewis tweeted on Feb. 23, 2022, the day before Russian forces invaded Ukraine. Known on social media as @ArmsControlWonk, Lewis had been tracking Russian movements in the days preceding t...

Astronomers have revealed the latest deep-field image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, featuring never-before-seen details in a region of space known as Pandora's Cluster (Abell 2744). Webb's view displa...

The moon-landing company went public on the Nasdaq on Wednesday (Feb. 15) amid a renewed focus by NASA to bring humans and robots to the lunar surface.

No one saw the Chelyabinsk meteor of February 15, 2013 coming--the largest asteroid to strike Earth in over a century. Just after sunrise on a sunny winter's day, a 20-meter, 13,000-ton asteroid struck the atmosphere ove...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover has reached another milestone. It’s finished caching its samples for a potential return to Earth. The sample depot is located in Mars’ Jezero Crater, where Perseverance is busy searching f...

To be clear: The asteroid is not going to hit us.

Imagine that you live alone in a dark, hilly wood that stretches for miles in all directions. You know your own forest well, having hiked and surveyed it as far as your feet and your tools allow. In all these exploration...

"Star Trek: Picard" Season 3 contains all manner of Trekkie throwbacks, Easter eggs and references to The Next Generation.

Observations of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies point to a likely source of dark energy--the 'missing' 70% of the universe.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is the next major step in astronomy and will help unlock the secrets of the universe's expansion and dark energy.

When neutron stars collide they produce an explosion that is, contrary to what was believed until recently, shaped like a perfect sphere. Although how this is possible is still a mystery, the discovery may provide a new ...

In a recent study published in Nature Astronomy, an international team of researchers led by NASA and The George Washington University examined data from an October 2020 detection of what's known as a "large spin-down gl...

The Elegoo Neptune 3 Plus ticks all the boxes when it comes to FDM 3D printers.

Using NASA's Swift spacecraft and ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers have observed NGC 5907 ULX1--the most luminous ultra-luminous X-ray pulsar known to date. Results of the observational campaign, published Februar...

Earth-observation satellites continue to assess the vast damage in Turkey and Syria caused by the devastating series of earthquakes that struck on Feb. 6.

The $6.4 billion acquisition of Maxar Technologies by the private equity firm Advent International remains on track to close in mid-2023 following completion of a 60-day "go shop" period when other offers could have been...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently snapped a photo of the Three Forks sample depot, which contains 10 samples for possible future return to Earth.