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As NASA prepares an attempt to reboost an astronomy spacecraft in a decaying orbit, it is open to doing something similar for Hubble, if its operating costs can be reduced. The post NASA interested in Hubble reboost if c...

"If a major meteor shower outburst or storm is forecast during a mission or crew activity, the mission would be delayed or the crew kept inside until the outburst or storm is over."

A pair of stars spiraling around each other. That's the origin of a new source of repeating radio bursts we've detected, called ASKAP J1745.

Inflation is awkward, possibly not even a proper theory, and it has reigned over cosmology for forty years anyway. Here is what it claims, the flatness, horizon, and monopole problems it solves, the structure-formation p...

3I/ATLAS has caused quite a stir over the last year, inviting astronomers to update what they know about other solar systems as well as our own. However, this third interstellar visitor may have an unexpected impact on o...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used simulations to show that a newly developed, compact X-ray telescope could be used to map the chemical composition of the entire lunar surface, a vital breakthrough...

The TRAPPIST-1 system, located about 41 light years from Earth, has been a focal point of much exoplanetary discussion-mainly because it has seven confirmed planets orbiting a dim M-dwarf star. Two of those planets-TRAPP...

The Magellanic Clouds are a pair of dwarf galaxies passing the Milky Way probably for the first time, but as they move they have been interacting with each other for billions of years.

NASA plans to find a new headquarters building by the end of this year while remaining in the Washington area. The post NASA to select new headquarters building by end of year appeared first on SpaceNews.

'This season in a lot of ways is a celebration and I think you can feel it in everything'

Once rare beasts, billion-dollar startups are multiplying across new orbital markets. The post Rounding up the space unicorns appeared first on SpaceNews.