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The Pentagon has opened up a new portal on the internet for professionals to submit reports about UFOs -- now officially known as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs -- and for the rest of us to find out about the ...

A pension fund has filed suit against the board of directors of Amazon, claiming they "acted in bad faith" in approving launch contracts for the Project Kuiper broadband constellation that awarded billions of dollars to ...

Poor Russia. They can’t seem to get much right. Their most recent failure is their Luna 25 spacecraft. It was supposed to land near the Moon’s south pole but instead crashed into the surface on August 19th. Now NASA�...

Hotfire testing of the new Ariane 6 rocket has been delayed due to problems with ground equipment.

Validation testing continues for ESA's all-new Ariane 6 launch vehicle, with firing of its two upper stage engines to simulate the way they will have to operate together during a flight.

Using atomic clocks could help bring cosmology and astrophysics "down to Earth" by allowing scientists to investigate the mystery of dark matter in the lab.

The Pentagon has opened up a new portal for professionals to submit reports about UFOs--now officially known as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs--and for the rest of us to find out about the reports that have be...

Award-winning visual effects master Erik Henry dives into the design and evolution of the Apple TV+ series' alien threats.

Imagine we detect an interstellar object entering our Solar System. At first, astronomers think it’s just another natural interloper like Oumuamua or comet Borisov. We’re warming up to the idea of visitors from other...

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs)--black holes with masses exceeding a million times that of the sun--are known to prevail in the universe today. However, it is not clear yet when, where, and how they formed during the 13...

NASA will host a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 6, to discuss the agency's upcoming Psyche mission, which will be its first to visit a metal-rich asteroid. Riding along with Psyche is a laser transceiver ...

Space Tango, a Kentucky-based startup that conducts research and science experiments on the International Space Station, on Sept. 1 announced the appointment of S. Sita Sonty as its new chief executive officer. The post ...

During his Huginn mission, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will run two experiments focusing on sleeping in space: Circadian Light and Sleep in Orbit.

All supernovae are exploding stars. But the nature of a supernova explosion varies quite a bit. One type, named Type 1a supernovae, involves a binary star where one of the pair is a white dwarf. And while supernovae of a...

An Australian company has released images showing how China constructed its Tiangong space station.

JWST is the most powerful instrument astronomers have to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, looking for trace gases that might indicate life on another world. What if Earth was an exoplanet orbiting a nearby star? What...

SpaceX and NASA say the Crew Dragon capsule carrying four Crew-6 astronauts will now depart the International Space Station no earlier than Sept. 3, a 24-hour delay.

A pair of astrophysicists, one with Kindai University, the other the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, both in Japan, have found possible evidence of an Earth-like planet residing in the Kuiper Belt. In their p...

Do we stand a better chance against alien invaders in the realm of video games? These are the best alien invasion games of all time.

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Repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious radio transient sources in the universe that emit a repeating radio pulse lasting for a few milliseconds. Plasma lensing is the cold, non-magnetized, and inhomogeneous pl...

Students from Georgia and Texas will have separate opportunities next week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.