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The second all-private mission to the International Space Station by Axiom Space will launch no earlier than May 21. Learn more about the 4 crew members on board.

The radiation belt around the ultracool dwarf star, located around 19 light-years from Earth, is doubled-lobed like the radiation belts around Jupiter -- but it's 10 million times brighter.

Image: Origami heat shield: reusable for reentries

The U.S. Space Force awarded Parsons a $55 million contract to develop a ground system for a network of missile-warning satellites in medium Earth orbit. The post Space Force selects Parsons to develop ground system for ...

Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt said a lack of communication between the U.S. and China hurts efforts to manage space traffic and prevent mishaps. The post Space Force official: Lack of communication with China increases risk of mi...

College students shattered a category record in amateur rocketry last month, sending their Deneb vehicle far higher than the tallest mountain on Earth.

It is as inevitable as the rising of the Sun and the turning of the tides. Someday another large rock from space will crash into the Earth. It has happened for billions of years in the past and will continue to happen fo...

Get a sneak peak at IDW's new comic series "Star Trek: The Motion Picture -- Echoes" with this exclusive interview with screenwriter/producer Marc Guggenheim.

Newly divulged details about the Artemis 2 moon crew's include mission milestones and a simulated docking exercise planned in Earth orbit before flying to the moon.

The heart of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was recently delivered to Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, for integration into the WFI (Wide Field Instrument). Called the FPS (Focal Plane System), it serves as...

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...

Astronomers have made the first detection of a supernova in radio waves, finding that an exploding white dwarf star was feeding from a companion star like a cosmic vampire before it blew.

Using data from the ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), new research shows that organic material on Mars may not be an indication of past life. The post Life Probably Didn't Have a Hand in Creating Organic Deposits on the Sur...

Anyone can become an asteroid hunter thanks to a new program launched by astronomers at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. As part of the Catalina Sky Survey, the scientists created an online porta...

The new BlackGEM array will hunt for black hole mergers and neutron star collisions, cataclysmic events that generate ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves.

Imagine an Earth-sized planet that's not at all Earth-like. Half this world is locked in permanent daytime, the other half in permanent night, and it's carpeted with active volcanoes. Astronomers have discovered that pla...

Another of NASA's top human spaceflight officials has joined SpaceX. Kathy Leuders, the former associate administrator for NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate, retired from NASA on May 1 after 31 years of servi...

A review of Disney Plus's enjoyable new Young Adult sci-fi adventure movie, "Crater."

In the latest issue of the journal Nature, astronomers from Stockholm University reveal the origin of a thermonuclear supernova explosion. Strong emission lines of helium and the first detection of such a supernova in ra...

A new method of measuring cosmic expansion uses multiple observations of a supernova in a lensed galaxy. The post Astronomers Have a New Way to Measure the Expansion of the Universe appeared first on Universe Today.

The first results from the James Webb Space Telescope have hinted at galaxies so early and so massive that they are in tension with our understanding of the formation of structure in the universe. Various explanations ha...

Adding to the grim list of record ice losses, record air temperatures and record droughts, which have all hit the headlines recently, the temperature of the surface waters of our oceans is also at an all-time high. With ...