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This rechargeable star projector emits bright, colorful and sharp imagery that gives the best star projectors we've tested a run for their money.

When one thinks of the damage that climate change is doing, it's probable that what comes to mind is a vision of huge lumps of ice dropping off one of the polar ice sheets and crashing into the ocean. While Greenland and...

Scientists studying the supermassive black hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy have revealed the origins of the monster's powerful jet and imaged the jet and its source together for the first time. What's more, the obser...

A Canadian-led research team has doubled the number of repeating fast radio bursts, adding 25 new 'cosmic probes'.

Scientists have greater insight into the atmospheric conditions on Mars than ever before following an international research project involving the University of Huddersfield. The findings of the project will help them id...

NASA will provide live coverage as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct two spacewalks in May outside the International Space Station to relocate hardware from the Rassvet module to the new Nauka multipurpose laboratory modu...

SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will launch for the sixth time ever today (April 26), and you can watch the action live.

Scientists have unlocked one of the biggest mysteries of quasars--the brightest, most powerful objects in the universe--by discovering that they are ignited by galaxies colliding.

The primary structure that will serve as the "bones" of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has moved into the big clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The spacecraft bus, Roman's...

Rocket Lab is preparing to launch four tiny NASA hurricane-studying satellites across two missions from the company's Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating the April 20 launch of SpaceX's Starship amid claims the launch smashed windows and rained ash on the habitats of endangered animals.

NASA is nailing down its calendar with Boeing and SpaceX, laying out who will fly astronauts to the International Space Station when.

IDW Publishing is releasing the first-ever ongoing "Star Trek" crossover event with this summer's "Day of Blood."

The Czech Republic is expected to sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at NASA Headquarters in Washington Wednesday, May 3.

Fast radio bursts are one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy with origins that are currently unknown, but scientists now have twice as many of these repeating rapid bursts of energy to study.

Andy Weir's bestselling 2011 book, "The Martian," features botanist Mark Watney's efforts to grow food on Mars after he becomes stranded there. While Watney's initial efforts focus on growing potatoes, new research prese...

This spring, NASA's S-MODE (Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment) began conducting its final plane, ship, and ocean glider campaign to better understand the ocean's impact on Earth's climate.

A new model argues that strange, star-like objects might appear similar to black holes. The post Is This a Black Hole or a New Type of Star? appeared first on Universe Today.

The rare metal terbium has been found in an exoplanet's atmosphere for the first time. The researchers at Lund University in Sweden have also developed a new method for analyzing exoplanets, making it possible to study t...

One of the James Webb Space Telescope's science goals is to help cosmologists understand how the first galaxies and galaxy clusters formed in the early Universe. New images from the telescope show just that. Astronomers ...

Not one, but two rocket launches with ESA-led experiments are flying to the edge of space just a week apart, providing unique data to researchers eager to learn more about fundamental physics, semiconductor production, t...

Astronomers have taken the first direct image of a powerful jet blasting out of a black hole. The jet is emerging from the monstrous supermassive black hole at the heart of Messier 87.