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Using AstroSat and NuSTAR space telescopes, astronomers have observed an X-ray binary known as XTE J1739'285 during its recent period of bursting activity. Results of the observational campaign, published March 23 on the...

The secret has been hiding in plain view for 40 years. But it took the insight of a veteran astronomer to pull it all together within a year, using observations of Saturn from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and retired Ca...

As questions abound about the Earth's closest star, scientists are seeking answers critical to forecasting solar flares that threaten satellites and other electronics.

Maxar, an Earth imaging company, is looking to build a new business imaging objects in space. The post Maxar eyes military customers for satellite images of objects in space appeared first on SpaceNews.

Telesat remains committed to developing its Lightspeed low Earth orbit broadband constellation despite ongoing delays to cover the project's rising costs, CEO Dan Goldberg said March 29. The post Telesat still bullish on...

Gamma-ray bursts are the most energetic and luminous events known to occur in the Universe. Short-lived flashes of gamma rays that typically last from a a tenth of a second to less than an hour, gamma-ray bursts may for ...

Indentations in sandstone, leftover from a massive, extinct amphibian, reveal a style of swimming still found today.

Amazon has revealed three terminals that customers might use to link up with Project Kuiper, the company's planned satellite internet program.

University of Toronto researcher Amanda Cook has found a way to use bright signals coming from across the universe to weigh the atmosphere of the Milky Way galaxy.

'Star Trek: Picard' season 3 episode 7 contains a few surprises and very obvious moments that make for an enjoyable, very 'Next Generation'-styled installment.

Disease may not have been a stranger to these prehistoric creatures.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania star Paul Rudd can't get enough of the quantum realm. Rudd took to YouTube to ask a NASA quantum physicist some big questions.

Standard cosmology can answer almost nothing about how the structure of a galaxy is formed. Why the visible matters of a disk galaxy are distributed in a thin plane as opposed to how dark matter occurs in a spherical dis...

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NASA has established the new Moon to Mars Program Office at NASA Headquarters in Washington to carry out the agency's human exploration activities at the Moon and Mars for the benefit of humanity. Amit Kshatriya will ser...

Israel launched the newest addition to its Ofek series of spy satellites early Wednesday (March 29), an advanced radar craft called Ofek 13.

Mars is one of the most studied planets in our solar system, second only to Earth. Signs point to the red planet once existing as a habitable world like our own, mustering intense fascination from scientists to understan...

A team of planetary scientists at Universidad de Alicante, in Spain, has found that the asteroid Didymos may be spinning so fast that it is flinging off rubble from near its equator. In their paper published in the journ...

As OSIRIS-REx flies its return trajectory through space, teams on Earth are preparing for the sample's Sept. 24 landing in the Utah desert.

The trailer for Wes Anderson's film "Asteroid City" shows junior astronomers and space cadets gathering to witness an incredible outer space encounter.

Einstein, Hubble and other cosmologists have demonstrated that our universe is expanding, with most galaxies moving away from each other.

A major Chinese state-owned defense contractor is preparing to launch the first satellite for a very low Earth orbit constellation. The post Chinese defense contractor to begin launching VLEO satellites appeared first on...