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The Texas Space Commission has awarded more than $26 million to five companies in the latest round...
Astronomers from Swinburne University in Australia and elsewhere have employed the Keck II telescope to investigate the...
The solar eruption set Earth's skies ablaze, with vibrant auroras visible across the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
A team behind the rescue of two lunar satellites left stranded by a launch anomaly have revealed...
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The detection of dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to make up most of the...
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A fog of long-wavelength infrared light could be produced by dusty, star-forming galaxies that have remained hidden...
A bright object, initially appearing to be a meteorite, lit up the skies over Mexico’s capital around...
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Scientists have reported new observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that strengthen the case that...
The mission, designated NROL-174, lifted off at 3:33 p.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex 8 (SLC-8) at...
The militaries of the U.S. and the U.K. have selected Rocket Lab as a potential partner for...
A Minotaur IV rocket sent multiple classified payloads skyward for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from California's...
How can astronomers pierce through the interstellar fog of the Milky Way – not to study distant...
The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical...
Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful events in the Universe, briefly outshining the combined light of their...
Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth’s orbit and their orbits...