China has successfully launched the Tianwen-2 mission, a historic milestone in the country’s space exploration endeavors. In...
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Black holes can accumulate planets and stars’ worth of material, but even they have their limits. Astronomers...
Ogetay Kayali from Houghton, Michigan The Pleiades (M45) open star cluster is one of the most recognizable...
A new Chinese refueling spacecraft met up with an older satellite in high Earth orbit this month,...
Local regulators have approved Ukrainian telco Kyivstar’s plans to start testing space-enabled texting services this summer using...
The Vera C. Rubin is a game changing observatory that we’ve been keeping our eyes on. When...
The universe is filled with galaxies, and many really faint galaxies are interesting objects from an astrophysical...
Mars will remain in the Spring Triangle until mid-September.
When the Apollo astronauts returned to Earth, they complained that the gritty lunar dust got into everything,...
Hycean worlds are planets covered in oceans that also have thick hydrogen atmospheres. There are no confirmed...
The Japanese automaker Honda just hit a key milestone in rocket reusability with a near-bullseye landing during...
Resistance is futile! We look back on the classic 'Trek' episode, back when the Borg were still...
NASA's Terra satellite captured huge chunks of sea ice breaking apart in Canada's Amundsen Gulf.
A recent study looked at the challenges New Space may face, in terms of impact on the...
More and more satellites are being added to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) every month. As that number...
Scientists are revolutionizing the search for extraterrestrial life by challenging our somewhat Earth-centric assumptions about where and...
This Australian moth may be the 1st insect ever discovered to use stars for long-distance navigation
"We know that daytime migratory insects use the sun, so testing the starry sky seemed an obvious...
Mercury doesn’t give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one...
Summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere on Friday, June 20, at 10:42 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. This...