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After the Big Bang came the Dark Ages, a period lasting hundreds of millions of years when the universe was largely without light. It ended in the epoch of reionization when neutral hydrogen atoms became charged for the ...

Learn about the two missions that are en route to the moon and find out what the companies behind them hope to learn from experiments on the lunar surface.

Supermassive black holes can have trillions of times more mass than the Sun, only exist in specific locations, and could number in the trillions. How can objects like that be hiding? They’re shielded from our view by t...

For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares--intense bursts of light on the sun that can send a flurry of charged particles into the solar system. Now, using NASA's Solar Dynamics Observ...

The ride today bears little resemblance to actual spaceflight. But in the 50 years Space Mountain has been running, there have been and still are several nods to NASA.

Novaspace reports that government space spending hit record $135 billion in 2024 The post Defense spending propels government space budgets to new heights appeared first on SpaceNews.

Researchers have discovered two sets of ancient wave ripples on Mars, signatures of long-dried bodies of water preserved in the rock record. Wave ripples are small undulations in the sandy shores of lakebeds, created as ...

How a kitsch "Star Wars" cash-in spawned a bona fide sci-fi classic. So say we all!

For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares -- intense bursts of light on the Sun that can send a flurry of charged particles into the solar system. Now, using NASA's Solar Dynamics Obse...

California-based K2 Space manufacturers satellite platforms for commercial and defense applications The post Former Pentagon official John Plumb joins startup K2 Space appeared first on SpaceNews.

We explore seven of the best solar eclipses to look out for over the next 10 years.

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 million light-years away from Earth.

On Dec. 19, 2024, NASA released two amendments to the NASA Research Announcement Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2024 (NNH24ZDA001N) to announce the E.9 Space Biology: Research Studies and E.12...

Learn more about the Durotriges, the first known matriarchal society found in Europe.

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it--the flickering star is 2.2 million light-years away, and is ...

When some of the biggest stars reach the end of their lives, they explode in spectacular supernovas and leave behind incredibly dense cores called neutron stars. Some of these remnants emit powerful radio beams from thei...

Stoke Space has raised $260 million to advance development of a fully reusable medium-lift launch vehicle and its Cape Canaveral launch site. The post Stoke Space raises $260 million appeared first on SpaceNews.

Learn why the sound of echoes near rock art sites in Finland gives insight to how neolithic people interacted with their artwork.

Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen: H2O. The H was formed during the Big Bang, but it took the first stars in the Universe to create the O, manufacturing it in their cores before they detonated as supernovae. In a new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's ancient "little red dot" galaxies have been seen as a sign of "broken cosmology." Feeding supermassive black holes may have come to the rescue.

By combining data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and the Gemini South telescope, astronomers have investigated three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies that reside in a region of space isolated from the environmental influ...

Astronomers have unveiled an explosive cosmic fireworks display of stars interacting with their environment. This dazzling spectacle--due to powerful winds flowing from the stars--marks a major milestone in the ability t...