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The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), located on Mount Graham in Arizona and run by the University of Arizona, is part of the next generation of extremely large telescopes (ELTs). With two primary mirrors measuring 8.4 m ...

A last-minute problem scrubbed the Atlas 5 launch of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner on its first crewed flight June 1. The post Starliner launch attempt scrubbed appeared first on SpaceNews.

It is truly wonderful to see so many nations aspiring to space exploration and trips to the Moon. Earlier this week on the 27th May, South Korea innaugurated its new space agency, the Korea AeroSpace Administration other...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode May 24 due to an ongoing gyroscope (gyro) issue, suspending science operations. Hubble's instruments are stable, and the telescope is in good health. The telescope automati...

After its "birth" in the Big Bang, the universe consisted mainly of hydrogen and a few helium atoms. These are the lightest elements in the periodic table. More-or-less all elements heavier than helium were produced in t...

The Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated LEO program 'will provide opportunities for companies to gain valuable experience working with SDA on demonstration projects' The post Space Development Agency opens door to new ve...

The first crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has been delayed yet again, this time due to an automatic abort just minutes before liftoff today (June 1).

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa won't shoot for the moon on SpaceX's Starship after all.

Two X-class solar flares erupted from the sun in less than 12 hours as a magnetically complex sunspot begins to face Earth.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered what appears to be a new record-holder for the most distant known galaxy, a remarkably bright star system that existed just 290 million years after the Big Bang, NASA said Th...

Astronomers from the Stanford University in California have performed joint X-ray and optical observations of a massive "spider" pulsar designated PSR J2215+5135. Results of the observational campaign, presented in a pap...

Troubled aerospace giant Boeing will try once more to fly its first crew to the International Space Station aboard a Starliner spaceship on Saturday, after the last attempt was scrubbed hours before liftoff.

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