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Is it a multimedia art project? Or a rehearsal for alien contact? Let’s call it both: Researchers specializing in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, are working with a media artist to stage the rece...

During the last few days, astronomers have been pointing their telescopes toward a familiar celestial object in our spring night sky for a look at a rare event: A new supernova.

Commercial satellite imagery is helping NATO address its need for persistent monitoring in spite of cost, technical and licensing issues. The post NATO faces hurdles in acquiring commercial satellite imagery appeared fir...

Remember the huge Tonga eruption in the South Pacific in January 2022? This underwater volcano sent tons of ash into the air. It also blew 146 teragrams of water into our atmosphere and the effect of the explosion reache...

Physics gets weird at the extremes. Astrophysics usually deals with the extremely large – large energies, large gravities, and lots and lots of stuff. Quantum mechanics, on the other hand, typically deals with the extr...

Getting the Celestron PowerSeeker for $50 is a low-risk investment on a reliable telescope for those looking to take their first steps into stargazing.

Virgin Galactic has released a video introducing the public to the pilots who fly the company's VSS Unity space plane, which is gearing up for its final test flight.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is planning a new procurement of commercial services to monitor activities from space. The post NGA plans new procurement of commercial Earth monitoring services appeared first...

Three aerospace companies submitted winning bids at a bankruptcy auction for most of the assets of launch company Virgin Orbit, ending any chance that company could return to flight under new ownership. The post Three co...

A mobile shipping platform in the Gulf of Mexico sent out the first rockets to suborbital space from U.S. territorial waters. The Spaceport Company is aiming for orbital launches next.

In the past 30 years, more than 5,000 planets have been discovered outside our solar system. One common exoplanet is the lava world, a hot super-Earth with oceans of liquid lava. Mantas Zilinskas developed models to simu...

U.S. defense and intelligence agencies need to forge even closer ties with the commercial sector to address global security threats, said Chris Scolese, National Reconnaissance Office director. The post NRO seeks closer ...

SpaceX is joining the FAA to fight a lawsuit brought by environmental groups, which claim the agency didn't properly assess the damage the company's Starship rocket could cause.

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanic world in the Solar System, with over 400 volcanoes. Some of them eject plumes as high as 500 km (300 mi) above the surface. Its surface is almost entirely shaped by all this volca...

Lightning's role in making nitrogen available for life on Earth may have been relatively short-lived, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science.

Skywatchers can watch the moon get close to the solar system's hottest planet Venus on Tuesday (May 23) thanks to a free telescope livestream.

Rocket propulsion startup Ursa Major won a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory contract to support the development of two of the company's rocket engines. The post Air Force Research Lab to fund development of Ursa Major'...

After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the U.S. have just turned on detectors capable of measuring gravitational waves--tiny ripples in space itself that travel through the universe.

The next space-themed Lego set is actually two spacecraft in one, Technic-ally speaking. The Lego Technic NASA Mars Rover Perseverance set recreates the wheeled explorer and its Ingenuity helicopter.

The world's largest solar telescope has captured the sun's fine features in remarkable detail, including rare glimpses of dying sunspots.

Tunnels deep underground in North Yorkshire are providing a unique opportunity to study how humans might be able to live and operate on the moon or on Mars.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted short bursts that make up lightning bolts on Jupiter, showing that Jovian lightning works in much the same way as it does on Earth.