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The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A - host to Mr. Spock's fictional home planet, Vulcan, in the "Star Trek" universe - is really a kind of astronomical illusion caused by the pulses and jitters ...

Exoplanets, planets outside of our own solar system, hold the keys to finding extraterrestrial life and understanding the origin of our own world. Now online students at Arizona State University (ASU) in a new course cal...

Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 10 mission, exits the spacecraft during recovery operations on May 26, 1969. He and the other two crew members already in the raft, Thomas P. Stafford (left) ...

Mission engineers were confident NASA's OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification - Apophis Explorer) spacecraft could weather its closest ever pass of the Sun on Jan. 2, 2024. Their models h...

Space computing startup Colossus has gained flight heritage for Kestrel, a processor built to operate in orbit. The post Colossus processor gains flight heritage appeared first on SpaceNews.

Normally you don’t want dust to get into your spacecraft. That was certainly true for the InSight mission to Mars, until it died. Now, however, it’s acting as a dust collector, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) s...

We’re fortunate to live in these times. Multiple space telescopes feed us a rich stream of astounding images that never seems to end. Each one is a portrait of some part of nature’s glory, enriched by the science beh...

North Korea's latest attempt to send a spy satellite to orbit on May 28 was met with failure, according to reports, while the United States said the mission breached several United Nations security resolutions.

As ESA's Heraspacecraft for planetary defence goes through pre-flight testing, the system that will steer it around its target binary asteroid system is also undergoing its final checks for space.

Nothing lasts forever, including black holes. Over immensely long periods of time, they evaporate, as will other large objects in the Universe. This is because of Hawking Radiation, named after Stephen Hawking, who devel...

The largest camera ever built for astronomy arrived in Chile, where it will be installed atop Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope.

SpaceX sent up the 40th rocket launch from the Space Coast on Tuesday morning.

Venus may be as geologically active as Earth, with volcanoes possibly spewing on its surface in the present day.

A review of director Brad Peyton's new sci-fi adventure flick, "Atlas."

Mission engineers were confident NASA's OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification--Apophis Explorer) spacecraft could weather its closest ever pass of the sun on Jan. 2, 2024. Their models ha...

Twice per year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers.

Allison Mills, Earth Science Information Partners, [email protected] Shingledecker, Earth Science Information Partners, [email protected] Introduction In 2023, the Earth Science Information Partn...

SpaceX launched the EarthCARE mission this afternoon (May 28) after sending aloft a group of Starlink internet satellites this morning.

The European Space Agency has now released ten images from its dark universe detective spacecraft, Euclid. We asked scientists from various fields to pick their favorite Euclid image thus far.

A communications satellite order from Japan's flagship operator has brought the geostationary orbit market back to par with last year. The post Japanese satellite order puts GEO market on par with 2023 appeared first on ...

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Two Chinese astronauts spent about 8.5 hours outside the Tiangong space station today (May 28), setting a new spacewalk-duration record for the country.