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The Canon EOS R8 is one of the best cameras for astrophotography on the market and this Prime Day, you can grab it with a $340 discount.

Nestled between the colossal Martian "Grand Canyon" (Valles Marineris) and the tallest volcanoes in the solar system (the Tharsis region) lies Noctis Labyrinthus--a vast system of deep and steep valleys that stretches ou...

This big camera deal gives $500 off the Nikon Z7 II for Prime Day -- if you're into astrophotography, you don't want to miss this deal before it's gone!

This telescope deal is only around until tomorrow so if you want to save $63 on the Celestron AstroMaster 70AZ, you'll have to act soon.

In an era where space has become a contested domain, members of the U.S. Space Force, save for a select few astronauts, find themselves firmly grounded on Earth. Unlike their […] The post Tech innovations help Space Fo...

SpaceX rolled its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket out to the pad Tuesday (Oct. 10) ahead of the planned Thursday (Oct. 12) liftoff of NASA's Psyche metal asteroid mission.

Marshall Presents Small Business Awards for 2023 NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center honored top contractors, subcontractors, teams, and individuals of fiscal year 2023 at the 36th meeting of the Marshall Small Busines...

U.S. and allies "have been discussing ways to jointly architect systems and build capabilities together to avoid duplication and ensure interoperability" The post U.S. to pursue stronger collaboration with allies in mili...

The James Webb Space Telescope is widely considered to be better than the Hubble Space Telescope. But the JWST doesn’t replace its elder sibling; it’s the Hubble’s successor. The Hubble is nowhere near ready to ret...

New spacecraft footage from Mars Express shows off a rugged valley on the Red Planet, shaped by volcanic activity from the famous Tharsis region.

The spacecraft is targeting an Oct. 12 liftoff atop a Falcon Heavy rocket. Its destination, a metal-rich asteroid, may tell us more about how planets form.

The two contenders hoping the U.K. chooses them to de-orbit a pair of derelict satellites in 2026 with a single robotic spacecraft have finished the system requirements review for their mission. The post Debris-removal c...

China announced that it will double the size of Tiangong in the hopes that it will fill the void left by the ISS. The post China is Planning to Double the Size of its Space Station appeared first on Universe Today.

Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are an astronomical mystery, with their exact cause and origins still unconfirmed. These intense bursts of radio energy are invisible to the human eye, but show up brightly on radio telescopes...

Any potential alien messages could be too complicated for humans to understand, but AI trained to detect complex structure in communication could help decipher them for us.

When two black holes collide, the impact is so big that we can detect it all way here on Earth. These objects are so immense that their collisions send ripples through spacetime itself. Scientists call these ripples grav...

NGC 685 takes center stage amid faintly twinkling stars on an inky black background. This galaxy is clearly a barred spiral galaxy with its bright center bar and patchy, curving arms. It is about 58 million light-years a...

NASA has delayed a planned Oct. 12 spacewalk due to a leak of coolant from a Russian module discovered earlier this week. The cause of the leak remains under investigation.

Gaganyaan translates to "celestial vehicle" and is a mission to bring Indian astronauts to space.

The Hyades star cluster is only about 153 light-years away. At that short distance away, it’s visible with the unaided eye in the constellation Taurus. Its proximity gives professional astronomers an easier time observ...

Recently, much attention has been given to massive, active galaxies discovered by the JWST in the early universe. But in contrast to these active galaxies, some galaxies that the JWST has discovered have been unusually q...

NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley will host a media briefing at 10 a.m. PDT on Monday, Oct. 16, announcing a new interdisciplinary initiative. The project will enable academia, private industry, ...