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Buzz Aldrin already had the moon to his credit. Now he has a star. The Apollo 11 astronaut and colonel in the U.S. Air Force received a promotion to the honorary rank of brigadier general.

A NASA scientific balloon flight was terminated Sunday (May 14) after the craft developed an irreparable leak about a day and a half into flight.

New measurements suggest that the traditional view of the Milky Way as a galaxy with four major spiral arms extending out from a thick centralized bulge of stars could be wrong.

More than a hundred years after geologists first observed how seismic waves traveled through Earth, they’ve achieved another seismic first. This time, they measured “core-transiting seismic waves” moving through Ma...

The four astronauts of the upcoming Ax-2 mission are eager to leave Earth and head for the International Space Station.

For the third consecutive year, bipartisan legislation will be moving through the House and Senate aiming to establish a Space National Guard as a reserve component of the U.S. Space Force. The post Political fight escal...

A new study by a team of French researchers has confirmed that the Moon has a solid inner core. The post The Moon has a Solid Core Like the Earth appeared first on Universe Today.

The eRosita bubbles of hot gas that extend 36,000 light-years out from our Milky Way galaxy are more complex than previously thought, a new study reveals.

Back in 2020 astronomers observed a Red Nova, which while enormously powerful, is on the low side of energetic events in the universe. Now an astronomer has studied the event in close detail and has come to the conclusio...

The BlackGEM array, consisting of three new telescopes located at ESO's La Silla Observatory, has begun operations. The telescopes will scan the southern sky to hunt down the cosmic events that produce gravitational wave...

British cybersecurity software developer Arqit has hired financial adviser Silverpeak to sell its space division following interest from potential buyers, according to a source close to the process. The post Arqit launch...

As space companies target possible servicing missions to the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, the long-running Chandra observatory is also on the list for a tune-up.

After successfully launching the first pair of small satellites earlier this month from New Zealand, NASA and Rocket Lab are now targeting no earlier than 1:30 a.m. EDT Monday, May 22 (5:30 p.m. NZST), to launch the seco...

Saturn's rings are one of the jewels of the solar system, but it seems that their time is short and their existence fleeting.

Six years ago the Cassini spacecraft, which had spent nearly two decades in orbit around Saturn, finished its mission with a grand finale, plunging itself into the depths of Saturn's atmosphere. Those last few orbits and...

Early in the morning on Wednesday, May 17, gas giant Jupiter and its four bright Galilean moons will pass behind a very thin crescent moon.

This week, the Australian Space Summit is celebrating some of our nation's strengths and achievements in the space sector. But it's taking place under the shadow of significant cuts to space technology investment announc...

A new study by the SUper massive Black hole Winds in the x-rAYS (SUBWAYS) project explores the role of "space winds" in shaping galaxies. The post Galactic Black Hole Winds Blow Up to a Third the Speed of Light. The Impa...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that supermassive stars may lurk at the heart of globular clusters born shortly after the Big Bang.

New images from JWST have revealed the light from a globular cluster in this earliest epoch, showing that it contains large amounts of nitrogen produced by the explosions from early stars. The post New Clues to the Forma...

A division of the U.S. Space Force wants to bring NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope back, three years after the observatory was shut down to help free up resources for the James Webb Space Telescope.

The sun's rotation produces changes in its magnetic field, which flips completely every 11 years or so, triggering a phase of intense activity. Solar flares--huge eruptions from the surface of the sun lasting minutes or ...