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In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs). These events occur when massive objects like neutr...

Kay Sears: 'We're going to connect the E-7 to the Foo Fighter network and the MEO missile warning and tracking layer' The post Boeing to demonstrate air-space sensor fusion for U.S. military operations appeared first on ...

Ship owners are increasingly relegating geostationary satellites to the backseat and turning to low Earth orbit networks for primary communications at sea, according to a panel of multi-orbit maritime service providers. ...

The Hubble Deep Field and its successor, the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, showed us how vast our Universe is and how it teems with galaxies of all shapes and sizes. They focused on tiny patches of the sky that appeared t...

Paramount's new all-CG animated 'Transformers' film delivers a dynamic origin story for the shapeshifting robots from outer space.

A new catalog providing information on millions of distant galaxies, which determines their distances with unprecedented precision over a field of view and depth never before explored, has been published today.

An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral a happier outlook thanks to the two bright "eyes" and the wide semicircular "smile." The regi...

NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy spent time at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, on Sept. 16, 2024, engaging with center leaders and employees to discuss strategies that could drive meaningf...

Americans are famously fond of their guns. So it should come as no surprise that a team of NASA scientists has devised a way to "shoot" a modified type of sensor into the soil of an otherworldly body and determine what i...

A low-density, weak-gravity region has been found below Olympus Mons and the Tharsis volcanoes, while Mars' northern hemisphere is littered with puzzling high-gravity structures beneath the surface.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released his remarks as prepared for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in Washington. The awards recognized the women who contributed to the space race, including...

As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston holds a variety of unique responsibilities and privileges. Those include being the home of NASA's astronaut corps. One of those astronauts - Nick Ha...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 4709 located around 240 million light-years away in the southern constellation Telescopium. Hubble beautifully captures its faint halo and swirling...

The secrets of dark matter might be hiding in the immense cosmic crashes that are colliding galaxy clusters.

Brig. Gen. Panzenhagen: Following Vulcan's Cert-2 mission, "We will need some time to make sure that everything was clean" The post United Launch Alliance prepares for crucial certification flight as U.S. Space Force wat...

If there's an advanced civilization in the TRAPPIST-1 system living on multiple worlds, there's a way to eavesdrop on their conversation from world to world. Researchers directed the Allen Telescope Array at the TRAPPIST...

Earth may have had a Saturn-like ring system long ago, created from the debris of a passing asteroid that our planet tore apart.

In September 1859, the same year that Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," telegraph systems across Europe and North America stopped working and started sparking, leading to fires in some cases.

Media are invited to the kickoff event of a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Department of Education at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 23, at the Wheatley Education Campus in Washington. The interagency project, 21st Ce...

Astronomers have solid evidence for the existence of stellar-mass black holes and supermassive black holes. However, evidence for Intermediate Black Holes (IMBHs) is more elusive. Their existence remains hypothetical. Ho...

A review of Disney+ miniseries, "Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy."

In a rare and extraordinary discovery, researchers have identified a unique configuration of galaxies that form the most exquisitely aligned gravitational lens found to date. The Carousel Lens is a massive cluster-scale ...