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The Department of the Air Force has received no official communication from the White House regarding the relocation of U.S. Space Command's headquarters, Secretary Frank Kendall told lawmakers. The post Air Force Secret...

The Hakuto-R spacecraft operated by the Japanese company ispace snapped the image of a sunlit section of the moon following its arrival in lunar orbit on March 20.

"The BOAT"' was about 70 times brighter than any other gamma-ray burst that scientists have observed, a new study reports.

The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with some 40 research institutions worldwide, has released their latest discoveries on the brightest gamma-ray burst (dubbed ...

On October 9, 2022, an intense pulse of gamma-ray radiation swept through our solar system, overwhelming gamma-ray detectors on numerous orbiting satellites, and sending astronomers on a chase to study the event using th...

Australian astronomers have provided vital information in the global effort to understand the brightest-ever detected gamma ray burst, which swept through our solar system on October 9 last year.

Lunar Flashlight launched in December 2022 and has not made it to the moon yet. NASA still has some ideas to get the lunar probe on track in April as engineers battle fuel problems.

The head of the U.S. Space Force told lawmakers March 28 that the service is investing heavily in cybersecurity for satellite ground systems in response to increasing threats. The post U.S. Space Force ramps up cybersecu...

NASA's decision to indefinitely postpone the highly anticipated VERITAS mission to Venus has outraged and confused the team members.

China is preparing to launch its first satellites for a national low Earth orbit broadband megaconstellation to challenge SpaceX's Starlink. The post China to begin constructing its own megaconstellation later this year ...

A Chinese solid rocket sent four meteorological satellites into orbit last week, marking the nation's 12th launch of 2023.

We have just published evidence in Nature Astronomy for what might be producing mysterious bursts of radio waves coming from distant galaxies, known as fast radio bursts or FRBs.

Asteroids sharing their orbits with the planet Neptune have been observed to exist in a broad spectrum of red color, implying the existence of two populations of asteroids in the region, according to a new study by an in...

While most people survive contact with 10 million volts, few walk away without lasting effects. Find out what happens when you get struck by lightning.

NASA has selected Dr. Jon B. Olansen as the new manager of the agency's Gateway Program, an international collaboration building humanity's first lunar space station, which will support Artemis missions to the Moon.

The Virtual Telescope Project will be streaming "Five Planets at a glance" on March 28, offering a view of this planetary parade from Rome.

Local students will have an opportunity to hear from NASA astronauts and learn more about Artemis lunar exploration, in an event hosted at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, March 30, at the Martin Luther King Library in Washington.

Here's our round-up of all the best sci-fi Movies and TV shows you can stream on Paramount Plus this month.

A Russian space capsule safely returned to Earth without a crew Tuesday, months after it suffered a coolant leak in orbit.

Marvel Comics is releasing "Star Wars: Jabba's Palace" and "Star Wars: Ewoks" for the 40th anniversary of "Return of the Jedi."

Maxar Technologies unveiled an updated version March 28 of its popular global basemap. The post Maxar unveils 30-centimeter global basemap appeared first on SpaceNews.

By analyzing the data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from the University of Bologna in Italy and elsewhere have found that the millisecond pulsar PSR J1835'3259B has a young white dwarf companion. The...