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The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of a distant star cluster that could help us better understand how such clusters evolve and even reveal the elusive black holes at their hearts.

For most of us, this would be a nightmare. Imagine being curled up inside a 90 cm (36 inch) fabric sphere with a small window and a small air tank while dangling from the Canadarm. As your tiny sphere shifts, you’d see...

A Sign in Space project has simulated a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence and has involved the global community in decoding it. The post A Sign from Space Simulates What it Would be Like to Get a Message from...

A panel of independent experts took a first-ever look at what NASA could bring to the study of UFO sightings -- now known as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs -- and said the space agency will have to up its game...

U.S. Space Command has officially been assigned responsibilities for protecting the United States from missile attacks, a job previously held by U.S. Strategic Command. The post U.S. Space Command takes over responsibili...

The Spaceport Company successfully tested its prototype mobile sea platform, launching multiple rockets from the Gulf of Mexico The post A New Launch Complex Opens Up in the Ocean appeared first on Universe Today.

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft ended its observations in October 2018 after nine and a half years, a solid six years beyond its planned duration. It discovered 2,711 confirmed exoplanets and another 2,056 exoplanet candidate...

The truth is out there--but we're going to need to look harder.

If you've ever played Kerbal Space Program, you know how difficult it can be to get your spacecraft into the orbit you want. It's even more difficult in real life. This is why it's pretty impressive to see a proposal to ...

An international partnership has designed a wooden satellite scheduled to be jointly launched by the Japanese space agency (JAXA) and NASA sometime next year.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory spied a massive "H" structure half the size of our entire galaxy made of blazing hot gas spewing from a distant supermassive black hole.

The Kuiper Belt is a massive disk of icy bodies, including Pluto, that is located just outside of Neptune's orbit in our solar system. Objects observed in the Kuiper Belt exhibit a more diversified color range than any o...

Discover the best methods and camera equipment to photograph Starlink satellites at night using this step-by-step method.

Researchers reveal the true perpetrator behind the bizarre 1871 paleontological tragedy and destruction of dinosaurs in New York.

Astronomers discover dozens of supernovae yearly, but seeing one bright and close is rare. If you have a small telescope and camera, you can take pictures of a supernova flaring in the famous Pinwheel Galaxy (M101). The ...

Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope as it images some of the most distant and faint early galaxies.

Rocket exhaust will blow Moon dust into lunar orbit at high velocity. Now researchers are calculating how damaging this will be.

Ever since humanity gained access to space, observation satellites, also known as “reconnaissance satellites,” have become a highly sought-after strategic capability for many nations. These satellites employ optical ...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT on Monday, June 5, to discuss the follow-up report by the Psyche mission independent review board. The new assessment reviews corrective actions taken following the Nov...

NASA held its first public meeting on UFOs Wednesday a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings.

400 light-years out there is something that is so tantalizing that astronomers have been studying it since its discovery in 2009. One orbit for WASP-18 b around its star that is slightly larger than our sun takes just 23...

Multiple missions are destined for the moon in this decade. These include robotic and crewed missions conducted by space agencies, commercial space entities, and non-profit organizations. The risks and hazards of going t...