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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way's galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Located 160,000 light-years away in the const...

The core portion of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully completed vibration testing, ensuring it will withstand the extreme shaking experienced during launch. Passing this key milestone brings Roman...

The discovery of a metal-rich star packed with both light and heavy elements hints at exotic stellar explosions and the role of ancient dwarf galaxies in seeding the cosmos with uranium and thorium.

The Japanese company ispace will attempt to land its Resilience lander on the moon on June 5. Here's what time and how to watch it live.

Learn more about Enoch, the machine learning model predicting the ages of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient texts.

NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX are targeting 8:22 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 10, for launch of the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, Axiom Mission 4. The mission will lift off from Launch C...

Learn more about how the surprising survival of marine ecosystems after the last mass extinction can help us better prepare for the next one.

If you're lucky, when you look up at the night sky, you'll see thousands and thousands of points of light. These lights each help tell the story of the universe--how it began, what worlds are out there now, and where new...

Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as "Cosmic Noon," about 2 billion to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, have found that a special clas...

When an international crew of astronauts launch on a commercial space mission, they will be joined by a स्वैन, a łabędź or a hattyú. Or, in English, a swan.

The company aims to create a digital proving ground for AI systems across air, land, sea, and space operations. The post Lockheed Martin launches ‘AI Fight Club’ to test algorithms for warfare appeared first on Space...

Chinese rocket startup Space Epoch put on a show recently, with a demonstration test launch of their reusable Yanxingzhe-1 rocket booster.

As the years go by, the chances of Europa hosting life seem to keep going down. But it's not out of contention yet.

The lander won't be visible from Earth, but its landing site on Mare Frigoris will be.

Astronomers from the University of Hawai i's Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have discovered the most energetic cosmic explosions yet discovered, naming the new class of events "extreme nuclear transients" (ENTs). These ex...

A giant exoplanet is surprisingly chill given how close it is to its red dwarf star -- perhaps because the star is so little.

A satellite from the European Space Agency captured huge plumes of ash and smoke from Europe's largest volcano.

New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: two galaxy clusters have collided and are now poised to head back for another swipe at each other. Galaxy clu...

Black holes are invisible to us unless they interact with something else. Some continuously eat gas and dust, and appear to glow brightly over time as matter falls in. But other black holes secretly lie in wait for years...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe--a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our universe emerged fro...

Astronomers have found another super-Earth. It's about 10 times more massive than Earth, and orbits in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star about 2475 light-years away. These massive Earth-like planets hold key informat...

Tokyo-based ispace hopes to succeed where its 2023 mission fell short, with a new lander, new software and a new chance at lunar history.