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In 2015, Russian-Israeli billionaire Yuri Milner and his non-profit organization, Breakthrough Initiatives, launched the largest Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project. Known as Breakthrough Listen, this...

A few weeks ago, a team of scientists from Caltech announced that they had successfully transmitted energy from an orbiting satellite down to Earth. It wasn't a lot of energy, but it showed that it was possible.

Look to the western skies on Monday evening (July 10) to see the Red Planet, Mars, shining steadily above the twinkling blueish star Regulus.

The core of our Milky Way Galaxy draws astronomers’ attention like moths to a flame. That’s because there’s a lot going on there. Not only is there a supermassive black hole, but also populations of very ancient st...

Voyager Space is considering using India's proposed Gaganyaan crewed spacecraft to serve the commercial space station it aims to be operating by the end of the decade. The post Voyager Space deepens India ties for commer...

In an era of great power competition and increasing global reliance on space-based assets, the U.S. military is trying to harmonize seemingly competing demands for security and sustainability. As a […] The post Space F...

The origin of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, is mysterious in many ways. It has a metallic core, like Earth, but its core makes up a much larger fraction of its volume--85% compared to 15% for Earth.

The European Space Agency's director general, Josef Aschbacher, says the member states are moving ahead with a lander design contract to bring a life-seeking rover to Mars.

Archaeologists are working now to answer this question and shed some light on early human life in southern England.

Only an extreme environment could hide the collision of two stellar-mass black holes -- and feeding supermassive black holes could provide such cover.

Rivers have flowed on two other worlds in the solar system besides Earth: Mars, where dry tracks and craters are all that's left of ancient rivers and lakes, and Titan, Saturn's largest moon, where rivers of liquid metha...

Just as Darwin used the fossil record to piece together the evolution of life on Earth, scientists can use a "cosmic fossil," the universe's first light, to understand how the cosmos evolved.

NASA has awarded Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace task orders under existing contracts to advance spacewalking capabilities in low Earth orbit, as well as moonwalking services for Artemis missions.

With the money raised, Benchmark plans to shift its focus from propulsion system research and development to manufacturing and testing. The post Benchmark raises $33 million in Series B round appeared first on SpaceNews.

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The Space Telescope Science Institute's Office of Public Outreach has released a new scientific visualization of data from the CEERS (Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science) Survey. The video represents Webb's exploratio...

Through a project called Destination: Space 2050, Lockheed Martin executives are exploring, for example, how AI could assist scientific exploration of locations where communications with remote sensors would be disrupted...

Avi Loeb, a physicist from Harvard University in the US, has recovered 50 tiny spherical iron fragments from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that he claims may be material from an interstellar alien spaceship.

Save $300 on this full-frame mirrorless bundle from Canon and get an EOS R6 and an EF-EOS R Ring Mount Adapter to use all your old lenses to shoot the stars.

The rapid growth in the number of space objects is testing an international governance model many in the industry worry can no longer keep up. A fast-approaching UN summit is seen as a "once-in-a-generation opportunity t...

Chandrayaan-3 is the third Indian mission to the moon. It aims to deploy a lander and a rover to the lunar surface for 14 Earth days to gather science and imagery.

Using NASA's Swift spacecraft, an international team of astronomers has carried out a long-term multiwavelength monitoring of a nearby active galaxy known as Markarian 817. Results of the observational campaign, publishe...