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As Canada celebrates its first astronaut to go to the moon, it is starting a new project that could eventually enable a Canadian to walk on the lunar surface. The post Canada proposes to develop robotic lunar rover for A...

Astronomers have identified a new kind of pulsar that consumes an orbiting companion, filling in a missing link about how some of the strangest systems in the universe evolve.

How does the Hubble Space Telescope view the universe, and how are its images translated to a form we can understand?

The ground terminals used to operate U.S. military and intelligence satellites are running out of capacity and in dire need of upgrades, warns a new report from the Government Accountability Office. The post Report: U.S....

Ready for another stunning image from JWST? How about a peek inside a supernova remnant? Not just any stellar debris, but a highly detailed view of the leftovers from the explosion that created Cassiopeia A. The latest i...

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A new simulation showing millions of galaxies demonstrates how the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will turn back the clock for astronomers and help them investigate lingering cosmic mysteries.

The snapshots show how the ejecta cloud around Dimorphos evolved, which researchers admit may take a bit of time to fully understand.

Jean Schulz, the widow of Peanuts' creator Charles M. Schulz, has been recognized for being a "huge champion" of NASA and inspiring millions of people around the world by sending Snoopy to the moon.

We've had eight episodes setting up the series finale and quite where this story is going no one is really sure.

The massive Kepler survey found a treasure trove of exoplanets. But in all that wealth they found three anomalies: what appeared to be rings of dust surrounding stars where planets should be. They were rocky planets in t...

Within the space sector, long known for opaque pricing, transparency is gaining traction The post Preventing sticker shock with transparent pricing appeared first on SpaceNews.

SpaceX's huge Starship vehicle could launch on its first-ever orbital test flight by the end of next week, if all goes according to plan.

Researchers have discovered that in the exotic conditions of the early universe, waves of gravity may have shaken space-time so hard that they spontaneously created radiation.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are hard at work on research guided by students and researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder.

The LAMOST DR10 (v1.0 version) dataset was officially released to domestic astronomers and international partners on March 31, 2023. This dataset contains more than 22.29 million spectra, which is 2.9 times the sum of th...

New guidelines from governments and the space sector include "rules of the road" that could help reduce risky collisions between space junk and spacecraft.

An accretion disk is a colossal whirlpool of gas and dust that gathers around a black hole or a neutron star like cotton candy as it pulls in material from a nearby star. As the disk spins, it whips up powerful winds tha...

Using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered the first known binary system composed of two Y-type brown dwarfs. The finding wa...

All stars are born from the collapse of clouds of dust and gas. But triggering star formation is a tricky process, because these gas clouds can just hang out doing nothing for billions of years. A pair of researchers hav...

Europe's JUICE mission will launch on Thursday (April 13), but won't reach Jupiter until 2031. Why will it take so long?

A gamma-ray burst is the most violent explosion in the universe. The research on gamma-ray bursts, including a central engine, magnetized dynamics of plasmas, and radiation, is one of the hot topics in the high-energy as...