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The digital age has been a tremendous boon to the fields of both statistics and astronomy. However, according to Dr. Max Bonamente, a professor of physics and astronomy at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), m...

From how the Milky Way got its name to how our galaxy formed, here are 10 of the most interesting things about the Milky Way.

A robotic SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule is scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station early Tuesday morning (June 6), and you can watch it live.

EOSDA, Dragonfly and Space Electric Thruster Systems (SETS) are part of the Noosphere Group, established in 2014 by international entrepreneur Max Polyakov to create an integrated space business. The post EOS Data Analyt...

Transforming stealth fighters strike back in Titan Comics' upcoming sci-fi title, arriving in August.

Researchers at Caltech have successfully tested their space solar power demonstrator (SSPD), showing it can beam power from space to Earth. The post New Satellite Successfully Beams Power From Space appeared first on Uni...

The U.S. Space Force awarded L3Harris technologies a $29 million contract to design a sensor payload that can track hypersonic missiles from medium Earth orbit. The post L3Harris to develop missile-warning sensor for med...

Skywatchers from around the planet have set the internet aglow with images of June's full moon, the Strawberry Moon, which rose on Saturday, June 3.

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question. One of the largest programs in Webb...

Steps taken by NASA, the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, and Caltech, to put the Psyche mission on track for an October 2023 launch have been outstanding, according to an independently ap...

Impact cratering happens on every solid body in the solar system. In fact, it is the dominant process affecting the surfaces on most extraterrestrial bodies today.

Sometimes an image is so engrossing that we can ignore what it’s telling us about its subject and just enjoy the splendour. That’s certainly true of this image of NGC 5068 released by the ESA. But Universe Today read...

May 24 marked the start of Observation Run 4, the latest gravitational-wave hunting effort of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. But only LIGO is fully operational at the moment.

"We're finally at this transition point, from being a buzzword and experiencing a lot of cynicism, to something that people see a real need for," said Robbie Robertson, co-founder and CEO of Sedaro The post Digital twins...

Following a successful launch of NASA's SpaceX 28th commercial resupply services mission, two new solar arrays, science investigations, and supplies are on their way to the International Space Station.

A delicate tracery of dust and bright star clusters threads across this image from the James Webb Space Telescope. The bright tendrils of gas and stars belong to the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068, whose bright central ba...

The food we eat determines how we feel, and nothing beats a good fry-up, although in moderation of course. As we prepare for missions to the moon and on to Mars, astronauts will be happy to hear from researchers that one...

A Falcon 9 launched a cargo Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station on a mission emphasizing station hardware and supplies over science. The post Falcon 9 launches cargo Dragon to space station with new sola...

Viasat's $6.2 billion Inmarsat acquisition has created a satellite communications behemoth with revenues that would rival other geostationary operators even after their potential consolidation deals. The post Viasat form...

The launch of Russia's robotic Luna 25 moon lander has been postponed from July 13 and will now lift off no earlier than August.

Researchers have detected complex organic molecules in a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years away from Earth--the most distant galaxy in which these molecules are now known to exist. Thanks to the capabilities of the...

So far, astrophysicists have only detected gravitational waves from binary systems--the mergers of either two black holes, two neutron stars or one of each. Although astrophysicists theoretically should be able to detect...