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SpaceLogistics announced June 20 it has three confirmed orders for its refueling pods that will fly to orbit on a servicing mission in early 2025. The post Intelsat orders another servicing mission from Northrop Grumman'...

A new system that uses subatomic particles produced high in Earth's atmosphere could provide a view inside volcanoes and help locate people trapped beneath rubble.

When astronomers talk about the “end states” of stellar evolution, several categories come to mind: black holes, neutron stars/pulsars, and white dwarfs. What happens if one star ends up in two of these states? That�...

Thanks to the JWST, galaxies that existed during the Cosmic Dawn have been observed for the first time! The post JWST Glimpses the Cosmic Dawn of the Universe appeared first on Universe Today.

Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama advised on the development of the missing submersible, which is named Titan.

The TRAPPIST-1 system is easily the most exciting collection of exoplanets ever discovered by astronomers. The system contains seven rocky planets orbiting an ultracool red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. Several o...

Experts created two new visual and auditory experiences to explore the complexity and beauty of a compact galaxy group known as Stephan's Quintet. The guided three-dimensional visualization surveys the galaxies--their st...

Near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy sits an immense object that astronomers call Sagittarius A*. This "supermassive" black hole may have grown in tandem with our galaxy, and it's not alone. Scientists suspect that si...

Solitary supermassive black holes lurking in less populated areas of the universe munch on material more commonly than their more crowded counterparts, a new study reports.

Astronomers have known something strange is happening at the star FU Ori for decades. The star brightened dramatically about 85 years ago, releasing a flare that's a trillion times brighter than anything the Sun can gene...

United Launch Alliance's powerful Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled to fly for the second-to-last time early Wednesday morning (June 21), and you can watch the liftoff live.

Prediction is one of the hallmarks of scientific endeavors. Scientists pride themselves on being able to predict physical realities based on inputs. So it should come as no surprise that a team of scientists at Notre Dam...

A Swedish astronaut will take a seat on the Axiom-3 space mission, taking a commercial fast-track to the International Space Station to become a role-model for future astronauts and scientists.

How high you can jump on other worlds is affected by many factors, here we estimate jump heights based on each world's gravity.

5 people on board a submersible are missing after diving near the Titanic ship liner on Sunday (June 18), and have only a few days of oxygen on board, multiple media reports suggest.

Mathematician Per Enflo, who solved a huge chunk of the 'invariant subspaces problem' decades ago, may have just finished his work.

The wintry meteor show may have had its origins from a catastrophic event, the remains of which are still spread across the solar system.

Humans have been fascinated by Mars probably since the first of the species turned their gaze to the night sky. Space exploration today attests to that continuing fascination.

NASA will provide live coverage as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station Thursday, June 22, for station upgrades and retrieval of equipment.

Image: Some of the most severe marine heat increases on Earth are occurring in the seas surrounding the UK and Ireland. Satellite measurements show that water temperatures in certain areas are above average for this time...

Using data from the Spitzer space observatory, Dr. Susana Iglesias-Groth, a researcher from The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has found evidence for the existence of the amino acid tryptophan in the inters...