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A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place at 11:13 a.m. EDT (1513 GMT) on Friday (May 5) and will peak at 1:24 p.m. EDT (1724 GMT).

The Czech Republic became the 24th country to sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony on May 3, 2023 at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Space Force selected Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to develop competing ground systems for a next-generation space communications network that can survive a nuclear attack. The post Lockheed, Raytheon to develop ...

Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center have successfully harvested oxygen from simulated lunar soil using a special high-temperature reactor.

Researchers are working to determine where and at what depths extractable ice exists on Mars. Such deposits could allow humanity to get a foothold on the Red Planet.

In a scene eerily reminiscent of the Galileo spacecraft’s antenna issues, ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is having a problem with an antenna. The 16-meter-long radar Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) u...

The Moon dominates our view of the night sky. But it’s not the only thing orbiting Earth. A small number of what scientists call quasi-satellites also orbit Earth. One of them is called Kamo’oalewa, and it’s a near...

The satellite-protecting payload fairing on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy made dramatic waves when it came back to Earth after the powerful rocket's launch last weekend.

In August 1865, a 10-pound rock fell from space to Earth, landing with a bang in the remote village of Sherghati, India. After being recovered by witnesses to the event, the stone passed into the possession of a local Br...

Using gravitational lenses, a team of astronomers showed how axions could be the particle that makes up Dark Matter. The post Gravitational Lensing is Helping to Nail Down Dark Matter appeared first on Universe Today.

China will attempt to collect the first samples from the far side of the moon next year with its Chang'e 6 mission.

Some black holes are truly monsters, and astronomers are pretty good at determining just how large they are. The post Black Hole Event Horizons Can Get So Big it'll Boggle Your Imagination appeared first on Universe Toda...

The International Space Station (ISS) is nearing the end of its service. While NASA and its partners have committed to keeping it in operation until 2030, plans are already in place for successor space stations that will...

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, April 30, and the moment was captured in incredible images and videos.

This year and next, Americans will have the extraordinary opportunity to witness two solar eclipses as both will be visible throughout the continental U.S. On Oct. 14, 2023, the moon will obscure all but a small annulus ...

The $6.4 billion buyout of Maxar Technologies is complete and the company is now officially private. The post Private equity firm closes $6.4 billion deal to acquire Maxar Technologies appeared first on SpaceNews.

The famous first image of a black hole just got two times sharper. A research team used artificial intelligence to dramatically improve upon its first image from 2019, which now shows the black hole at the center of the ...

A 'barely there' lunar eclipse will flirt with the shadow of the Earth Friday evening. The post May 5th’s ‘Teaser’ Lunar Eclipse appeared first on Universe Today.

Astronomers have found the fingerprints of material dispersed by the supernova deaths of the universe's first stars in distant gas clouds.

They are called UFOs, but aliens have nothing to do with them. They are the ultra-fast outflows: space winds that emerge from the surroundings of supermassive black holes and blow at speeds close to that of light. An int...

NASA selected five organizations to conduct studies of coronagraphs to fly on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's future space weather satellite. The post NASA awards contracts for NOAA coronagraph stud...

A new study that ground down mammoths tusks concludes that the megafauna had massive surges of testosterone every year, and thus, musth.