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Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded in the system known as SDSS J1531+3414 (SDSS J1531 for short). As explained in our press release, this mega-explosion billion...

A private U.S. lunar lander reached the moon and eased into a low orbit Wednesday, a day before it will attempt an even greater feat--landing on the gray, dusty surface.

Methane detected near dwarf planets Eris and Makemake could have come from within their interiors, produced by geochemical reactions amid hot rock.

California startup Varda's first in-space manufacturing mission wrapped up on Wednesday afternoon (Feb. 21) with a touchdown of its capsule in northern Utah.

As part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, the agency opened media accreditation for the launch of NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station. The mission will be the company's first Starliner spac...

The Einstein telescope project has reached a new stage, with the E-TEST prototype--developed in the ULiège and CSL laboratories--being sent to the Liège Space Centre to undergo a battery of cryogenic and vibration test...

The European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite fell to Earth on Wednesday (Feb. 21), bringing an end to its nearly 30-year life in space.

Image: Ariane 6 arrives at Europe's Spaceport via Canopée

Digital content creators are invited to register to attend the launch of NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission to the International Space Station. The mission will be the first crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner ...

This year is a leap year. Many people will know this means that February gets an extra day--a total of 29, as opposed to 28--but often do not know why. Space experts Dr. Minjae Kim and Dr. James McCormac shed light on th...

Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion billions of years ago may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two m...

Scientists have brought the stars 'down to Earth' by creating 5 new isotopes that could reveal how heavy elements like gold are created when neutron stars smash together.

The gigantic galaxies we see in the universe today, including our own Milky Way galaxy, started out far smaller. Mergers throughout the universe's 13.7 billion years gradually assembled today's massive galaxies. But they...

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus mission is targeting a touchdown near the moon's south pole this week for a historic lunar landing. Why was this location chosen?

Science is often portrayed as a solitary affair, where discoveries are made by lone geniuses toiling in isolation. But Dr. Natasha Batalha, an astronomer at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, say...

Within the next few decades, NASA aims to land humans on the moon, set up a lunar colony and use the lessons learned to send people to Mars as part of its Artemis program.

NASA's UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX) spacecraft will launch in 2030 to conduct an all-sky survey in ultraviolet light to bring new understanding of how stars and galaxies evolve.

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander slipped into lunar orbit today (Feb. 21), setting up a historic touchdown attempt that will take place tomorrow afternoon (Feb. 22).

Cosmologists are wrestling with an interesting question: how much clumpiness does the Universe have? There are competing but not compatible measurements of cosmic clumpiness and that introduces a “tension” between th...

Raymond retired from military service in October 2022. The post Former U.S. Space Force chief Jay Raymond joins board of directors of Impulse Space appeared first on SpaceNews.

Students and science enthusiasts are invited to catch a real-time look at radio astronomy as scientists explore magnetic hotspots on the Sun during a live, virtual solar eclipse event on April 8, 2024. A massive, 34-mete...

A large international team of astronomers has discovered the smallest known star to date, and found that it is paired with another, somewhat larger star. Their paper is published in the journal Nature Astronomy,.