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A team of oceanographers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, working with a colleague from Chungnam National University and another from the University of Hawaii, has mapped 19,000 previously unknown undersea vol...

A century after Einstein predicted the outcome from a black hole collision, Frans Pretorius helped pave the way for the actual discovery of the ripples that would expand our understanding of the universe.

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo spacecraft will depart the International Space Station on Friday morning (April 21), and you can watch the action live.

SpaceX wants to fly its giant Starship vehicle again soon, but there's a lot of work to do before that can happen.

Starlink satellites are visible from Earth, in this guide we tell you where you can see them and how.

To sit under the vast expanse of stars is to imagine swimming across shining, stellar rivers, creeks and tributaries. But to sit here also is to feel that lump in your throat and skip in your heart, realizing everything ...

An Indian rocket is scheduled to launch two Singaporean satellites early Saturday morning (April 22), and you can watch the liftoff live.

A research team led by the researcher Wang Jian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), collaborating with the Polar Research Institute of China, developed the Near-Infrared Sky Brightness Monitor ...

Government officials say satellite operators need to take greater responsibility for safe operations of their spacecraft in increasingly congested orbits. The post Government calls for greater responsibility by satellite...

In the 1960s, astronomers began noticing a pervasive microwave background visible in all directions. Thereafter known as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the existence of this relic radiation confirmed the Big Bang...

By Grabthar's Hammer! A new "Galaxy Quest" TV series could be coming to Paramount Plus just in time for the iconic sci-fi comedy's 25th anniversary next year.

Every single stop was pulled out for the "Star Trek: Picard'" season 3 finale and what we ultimately got is a massive, magnificent mess.

A low-cost, high-value observatory with a passing resemblance to a garden shed has been set up in the grounds of the University of Bath. The observatory is proving to be a game-changing experimental tool for undergraduat...

Getting astronauts back to the moon and then on to Mars will require fully tapping the United States' famed melting pot, NASA officials stress.

When dwarf planet Quaoar passed in front of a distant star, astronomers were ready to study its shadow. That revealed Quaoar's rings and a puzzling surprise.

A LeoLabs maneuver-detection dashboard displayed at the 38th Space Symposium tracked the location of about 30 Chinese, Iranian and Russian spacecraft in low-Earth orbit. The post LeoLabs highlights on-orbit maneuvers app...

A binary system containing an extremely low-mass (ELM) white dwarf (WD) progenitor and a compact invisible companion, was discovered by Chinese astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy ...

Feel like a real Mandalorian with this battle-worn Star Wars: The Black Series Bo-Katan Helmet without blasting through all your credits.

Green laser beams from one of NASA's earth-orbiting satellites were caught on motion-detecting cameras outside Hiratsuka City Museum.

Amazing views from Earth and space of this week's rare hybrid annular total eclipse. The post Views of This Week’s Amazing Hybrid Solar Eclipse appeared first on Universe Today.

Week in images: 17-21 April 2023 Discover our week through the lens

NASA's Perseverance rover just snapped an up-close view of its Mars companion Ingenuity, revealing the robotic helicopter's dusty blades.