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The FCC authorized Reflect Orbital to launch the mirror satellite Eärendil-1. “For optical astronomy, this poses an existential threat,” the European …
The probe sent back the first pictures of the asteroid Kamo’oalewa. Next step: landing on the surface and collecting samples to send back to Earth.
Something on Pluto and one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, absorbs light in a way unexplained by anything in spectroscopic databases.
The lab will beam back data to train AI models to predict how proteins behind age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s and certain cancers behave.
A new study suggests that when our star becomes unstable in 5 billion years or so, Earth may avoid being engulfed by its fiery demise.
A study based on 47 million galaxies found that the cosmic web retains patterns on enormous scales, which could force a reevaluation of a pillar of co…
The Euclid space telescope's stunning photo of our galaxy's “crowded heart” captures more than 60 million stars.
The asteroid will be visible for several nights from different parts of the world. We’ll tell you when and where to look, and what equipment you’ll ne…
Researchers say the discovery could be a “Rosetta stone” for cosmic signals.
Previous landmark scientific discoveries like the Higgs boson provide a better template for what it will take to confirm whether aliens have made cont…
New simulations reveal that the moons of Uranus may retain traces of giant planets.
The detonation of the New Glenn rocket resulted in a huge fireball in Florida, and may have long-term implications for the company's ambitions.
The project’s first mission could arrive as soon as this year, with a little help from Blue Origin.
NASA took advantage of the recent close approach of the Psyche probe to Mars to calibrate its observation instruments.
There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s finally evidence for where th…
Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the universe’s biggest myster…
On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon.
This is the first time NASA has encountered a situation like this, and it took nearly a week to resolve.
The Defense Department has released a new trove of declassified documents about government UFO sightings.