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A fragmented comet that exploded in Earth's atmosphere initiated the first-ever farming village in Syria, according to new research.

In-situ testing for space equipment is complex when it has to be developed on Earth, which is the case for literally all of it, at least for now. Typically, engineers and scientists developing the next Lunar or Martian r...

Hubble and other observatories worldwide have witnessed a Luminous Fast Blue Optical event between two galaxies. The post Hubble Sees a Mysterious Flash in Between Galaxies appeared first on Universe Today.

Azerbaijan signed up to China's International Lunar Research Station project Tuesday, on the sidelines of a major international space conference. The post Azerbaijan signs up to China's international moon base project ap...

Los Angeles was once the best place in the world to see the universe.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured fascinating images of a feature on the Moon that could be a collapsed lava tube. The post Is This a Collapsed Lava Tube on the Moon? appeared first on Universe Today.

The head of the Space Development Agency is pushing back at critics who presumably don't want the military acquisition culture to change, SDA's director Derek Tournear said in a social media post. The post Head of 'disru...

SpaceX plans to loft 22 of its Starlink broadband satellites early Monday morning (Oct. 9) on the second half of a launch doubleheader.

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope gave us the first-ever image of a black hole's event horizon, revealing the area around the heart of M87. The event horizon is the closest we've seen to a black hole, but not the clos...

Marvel Comics shares four new 'Star Wars' Life Day covers from Mike Del Mundo and Rod Reis.

The ability to have access to the Internet or use a mobile phone anywhere in the world is taken more and more for granted, but the brightness of Internet and telecommunications satellites that enable global communication...

SpaceX is set to launch 22 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida tonight (Oct. 8) on the first leg of a spaceflight doubleheader for the company.

It's getting crowded up there. An increase in military, commercial and scientific launches, coupled with a lower cost for rideshare cubesat launches, means lots more space junk to deal with in coming years. And we're not...

Bethesda's latest open-world video game 'Starfield' takes us for a fantastic ride among the stars and plants seeds of curiosity and belief in science.

There will come a time 1.21 billion years from now when the phenomenon of a total eclipse of the sun will become an impossibility.