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NASA has agreed to extend operations of its New Horizons spacecraft through late this decade to support "multidisciplinary" science that could include another Kuiper Belt object flyby. The post NASA to extend New Horizon...

A new long exposure image from the European Southern Observatory captures stars as they travel overhead, creating what is known as star trails with the help of bright laser guide star beams.

NASA has selected SpaceX to launch a pair of smallsats to study space weather as part of a rideshare mission in 2025. The post NASA selects SpaceX for rideshare launch of smallsat mission appeared first on SpaceNews.

How massive is the Milky Way? According to a new study using data from ESA's Gaia spacecraft, less than we thought. A new estimate puts the Milky Way's mass at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun, which is 4-5 times le...

The final supermoon of the year, the Harvest Moon of September, gave skywatchers the final lunar thrill of the season.

Marvel Comics is releasing a set of special "Star Wars Rebels" 10th anniversary comic book covers that celebrate the characters that now appear in the live action series "Ahsoka."

Between 2016 and 2023, researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) used interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), a space-based sensing technique, to 3D map the vertical land motion of the ground beneat...

The new moon glows in the sky above Turkey with the reflected light of Earth shining upon it in gorgeous photos by astrophotographer Miguel Claro.

Since time immemorial, humans have gazed up at the stars and wondered if we're alone in the universe. We have asked if there are other intelligent beings out there in the vastness of the cosmos, also known as extraterres...