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Former Lockheed Martin executive Chris Winslett last month was named general manager of Blue Canyon Technologies, a small-satellite manufacturer owned by Raytheon The post New head of smallsat supplier Blue Canyon sets s...

AI is the way forward in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, from detecting radio signals to finding technosignatures on planets.

Hefty iceberg D-30A has collided with Clarence Island -- an important refuge for breeding penguins in Antarctica. But luckily, the penguins weren't at home when the berg struck.

Prevailing wisdom holds that early humans lived close to the coastlines of Spain, but a new study has found that they formed networks at higher altitudes.

Patches of bright pink and wisps of dark red paint the foreground of this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 5068 is a barred spiral galaxy with thousands of star-forming regions and large quantities of interstel...

Today (Oct. 10) at 22:36 local time (02:36 BST, 03:36 CEST) the 23rd Vega flight saw its two main satellites launched and released into Earth orbit. The rocket's main passengers were the Earth observing THEOS-2 satellite...

Liquid has leaked from the Russian portion of the International Space Station but the crew are not in any danger, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Monday.

New research indicates that the number of migrating birds decreases during severe space weather events. They are also more prone to becoming lost.

SpaceX handed over the Space Coast spotlight for a short time last week with United Launch Alliance managing an Atlas V liftoff for Amazon, but Elon Musk's company is back to the business of sticking more of its Starlink...

Radio astronomy and satellite communication have a long common history. Advances made in one field have benefitted the other, and our modern era of spacecraft and mobile internet is a product of this partnership. But the...

Everyone loves a good mystery, and astronomers have just uncovered a new one in a nearby supermassive galaxy called M87. Like most galaxies, M87 regularly plays host to a smattering of stellar explosions called novae, ea...

Supermassive black holes are elusive creatures. Massive gravitational beasts that can power immensely bright quasars, or can lurk quietly among the bright stars of a galactic core. We mostly study them indirectly through...

As the astromaterials curation team at NASA's Johnson Space Center continues to collect the bonus asteroid Bennu particles located outside the OSIRIS-REx TAGSAM (Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism) head, they've a...

After a bit of a hiccup with its navigation system, Euclid has found its navigation stars and is pointed the right way again. The post Euclid Recovers From a Navigation Problem and Finds its Guide Stars Again appeared fi...

The circumstellar envelopes (CSE) of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars contain a large number of molecules, which account for about one-third of all molecules discovered in interstellar space.

Unlike physical theories describing the other three fundamental forces in physics, the general theory of relativity has only been tested in weak gravity.

Astrophysicists have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to take a close look at a volatile star.

A kilonova is a bright blast of electromagnetic radiation that happens when two neutron stars or a neutron star and a stellar-mass black hole collide and merge.

Researchers have developed new methods for using coronal dimmings observed in the solar corona for early diagnosis of powerful bursts of plasma from the sun.

The European Space Agency's dark energy and dark matter detective spacecraft Euclid is ready for full "science mode" after relocating its guiding stars.

Though not a career, some life factors can cause serial killers to "retire." Explore the fascinating realm of a serial killer's psyche.

Pulsars are so dependable you could set your watch to them, sometimes turning hundreds of times a second with incredible accuracy. One well-studied pulsar suddenly unleashed a torrent of radiation 200 times more energeti...