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Astrophotographer Thierry Legault captured the exact moment the International Space Station crossed in front of the sun while two NASA astronauts conducted a spacewalk.

A new theory has radically revised Stephen Hawking's 1974 theory of black holes to predict that all objects with mass may eventually disappear.

SpaceX plans to launch 72 small satellites to orbit and land the rocket back on Earth today (June 12), and you can watch the action live.

A new State Department space policy framework is intended to align and guide ongoing work on space diplomacy by the department, including its work to support the Artemis Accords. The post State Department framework seeks...

The Tarantula Nebula is a star formation region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Tarantula is about 160,000 light-years away and is highly luminous for a non-stellar object. It’s the brightest and largest star form...

A new instrument for studying a web of filaments that connects galaxies across the universe has captured its first image, a milestone known in astronomy as "first light." The Keck Cosmic Reionization Mapper (KCRM) at the...

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen deepened his Indigenous knowledge recently with a traditional ceremony known as the vision quest. It was folded into his moon mission training.

When Astronauts go to space, grey matter in the brain shifts around, and cerebrospinal fluid builds up to dangerous levels.

The United States Space Force tapped SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (ULA) for a total of twelve military satellite launches that will take place in 2025.

The United Launch Alliance took a major step with the first successful test firing of the Vulcan first stage. The post ULA Test Fires its New Vulcan Rocket appeared first on Universe Today.

NASA and Boeing said Monday the aircraft produced through the agency's Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project has been designated by the U.S. Air Force as the X-66A.

Technology Readiness Levels (or TRLs) are commonly used in the space industry to determine what level of development a technology has undergone. For space technologies, eventually, they get to a TRL where they have to be...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is inviting media to a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday, June 21, for the opening of NASA's Earth Information Center at the agency's headquarters in Washington. The exhibit is a hybrid ...

The House Armed Services Committee's strategic forces subcommittee is proposing legislation that would require DoD to share threat intelligence with commercial satellite operators. The post Space domain awareness provisi...

There are always more space missions than there is money to support them. Ultimately, some make the cut, and some do not. Various factors go into that decision, though those factors can change over the years and decades ...

Despite the enormous densities, the early universe didn't collapse into a black hole because, simply put, there was nothing to collapse into.

Until recently, there were only ten known stars on trajectories that will allow them to escape the Milky Way Galaxy, thrown astray by powerful supernova explosions. A new study using data from ESA's Gaia survey this June...

In astronomy, elements other than hydrogen and helium are called metals. While that might make your high-school chemistry teacher cringe, it makes sense for astronomers. The two lightest elements were the first to appear...

Average global temperatures are rising at an ever faster rate despite pledges of world leaders to tackle climate change, a new study has revealed.

The bright, red star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion has shown some unexpected behavior. In late 2019 and 2020 it became fainter than we had ever seen it--at least in records going back more than a century. Briefly...

The discovery of the new planet BEBOP-1c confirms the 2nd-ever known planetary system orbiting twin stars similar to the fictional planet Tatooine of Star Wars fame.

One of the largest U.S. arms makers, Lockheed Martin, is seeing growing demand for space technologies from U.S. military allies overseas. But selling to these customers is becoming more difficult for American companies d...