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A team of space scientists from Finland, Greece and the U.S. has found evidence showing that polarized optical emissions observed during a tidal disruption event were caused by colliding streams of material from a destro...

The ShadowCam imager aboard South Korea's Danuri moon orbiter recently captured a photo of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter as the two spacecraft zipped past each other.

While ChatGPT + AI is a powerful tool that can augment new discoveries, it can't yet replace the human-driven process of synthesizing new information to generate new insights into science.

How did we get here? Where are we going? And how long will it take? These questions are as old as humanity itself, and, if they've already been asked by other species elsewhere in the universe, potentially very much olde...

Two companies have disclosed details about how they could raise the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA evaluates that and other concepts offered to the agency. The post Astroscale and Momentus offer concept for ...

Fast radio bursts--intense, milliseconds-long flashes of radio energy from outer space--have puzzled astronomers since they were first spotted in 2007. A single burst can emit as much energy in its brief life as the Sun ...

The magnetospheres of Earth and Jupiter might be used to observe high-frequency gravitational waves. The post The Earth's Magnetosphere Could be Used as a Gravitational Wave Observatory appeared first on Universe Today.

Astronomers said on Friday they have identified the "largest" cosmic explosion ever observed, a fireball 100 times the size of our Solar System that suddenly began blazing in the distant universe more than three years ag...

Stephen Bowen remembers seeing Skylab fly overhead. At eight years old, Bowen's experience fueled his interest in spaceflight. Little did he know where that would take him 50 years later.