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Using a combination of historical aerial photographs and satellite imagery of Greenland, scientists have analyzed the movement of more than 1,000 peripheral glaciers from 1890 to 2022. They've discovered the rate of retr...

A top Department of Transportation official suggested the launch industry should help pay for additional resources for the Federal Aviation Administration's commercial space office. The post Transportation Department off...

Hubble and Webb have come together to create one of the most detailed and revealing images of an iconic galaxy cluster! The post An Epic Collaboration Between Hubble and JWST appeared first on Universe Today.

Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, a cosmic beast formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang.

With every big exoplanet discovery comes a stunning artist's rendition of a new world. Are these images realistic?

Two things are needed to understand how the universe came into being and how it has evolved to its present form. Cosmological computer models employ the laws of physics to depict the universe's expected appearance today,...

SpaceX says its next Starship launch could occur as early as Nov. 17, pending regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies.

When you measure the Universe's expansion rate to relatively nearby galaxies against the expansion rate in the cosmic microwave background radiation, the numbers don't agree, and their error bars don't overlap. This is t...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have succeeded in measuring the Earth's rotation more exactly than ever before. The ring laser at the Geodetic Observatory Wettzell can now be used to capture data ...

On Episode 87 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod discuss drinking in space with Colleen McLeod Garner.

In Einstein’s famous theory of relativity the concepts of immutable space and time aren't just put aside, they're explicitly and emphatically rejected. Space and time are now woven into a coexisting fabric. That is to ...

The massive volcanic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which grows giant horns when it erupts, has exploded for a third time in five months as it continues to race toward the sun.

The Northern Taurid meteor shower peaks overnight on Nov. 11, offering the chance to see fireballs created by debris from Comet 2P/Encke burning up in Earth's atmosphere.

In preparation for the upcoming Artemis missions to the lunar south pole, NASA recently solicited a Request for Information (RFI) from the lunar community to map out its future Lunar Infrastructure Foundational Technolog...

A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule is scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station early Saturday morning (Nov. 11), and you can watch the action live.