Space station’s cosmic detector working after 4 spacewalks The cosmic detector that required a series of difficult spacewalking repairs is…
Astronomers witness the dragging of space-time in stellar cosmic dance An international team of astrophysicists led by Australian Professor Matthew…
Two defunct satellites speed toward possible collision Two decommissioned satellites sped towards each other Wednesday at a combined speed of…
‘Curious and curiouser!’ Meteorite chunk contains unexpected evidence of presolar grains An unusual chunk in a meteorite may contain a…
Tarantula Nebula spins web of mystery in Spitzer image The Tarantula Nebula, seen in this image by the Spitzer Space…
Spacewalking astronauts close to fixing cosmic ray detector Spacewalking astronauts worked to complete repairs to a cosmic ray detector outside…
For hottest planet, a major meltdown, study shows In the scorching atmosphere of exoplanet KELT-9b, even molecules are torn to…
TV provider shifting satellite to high orbit over explosion fears US authorities said Friday they had granted permission to a…
Astronomers detect large amounts of oxygen in ancient star’s atmosphere An international team of astronomers from the University of California…
Canberra astronomer becomes first Australian to win major US science award in 133 years Lisa Kewley has transformed our understanding…
EU announces funding for Ariane 6 and other space-tech The European Union on Tuesday announced 200 million euros ($222 million)…
Image: The sun in 2019 The changing activity of our sun as seen by ESA’s Proba-2 satellite in 2019. Go…
SpaceX launches, destroys rocket in astronaut escape test SpaceX completed the last big test of its crew capsule before launching…
Rough seas delay escape test for SpaceX crew capsule Rough seas prompted SpaceX on Saturday to delay the emergency escape…
Scientists measure the evolving energy of a solar flare’s explosive first minutes Toward the end of 2017, a massive new…
Nearly barren Icelandic landscapes guide search for extraterrestrial life New research on microbial lifeforms living in nearly barren volcanic landscapes…
Taking the temperature of dark matter Warm, cold, just right? Physicists at the University of California, Davis are taking the…
Hot gas feeds spiral arms of the Milky Way An international research team, with significant participation of astronomers from the…
TESS dates an ancient collision with our galaxy A single bright star in the constellation of Indus, visible from the…
Wanted: Girlfriend to fly to the Moon with Japanese billionaire A Japanese billionaire has launched an online wanted ad for…
SuperTIGER on its second prowl—130,000 feet above Antarctica A balloon-borne scientific instrument designed to study the origin of cosmic rays…
Eyeing Moon, NASA hosts first public astronaut graduation ceremony NASA on Friday celebrated its latest class of graduating astronauts at…
Lucy mission now has a new destination Less than two years before launch, scientists associated with NASA’s Lucy mission, led…
Virgin Galactic’s next spaceship reaches build milestone Virgin Galactic’s next passenger spaceship has reached a major construction milestone, the company…
New map of Milky Way reveals giant wave of stellar nurseries Astronomers at Harvard University have discovered a monolithic, wave-shaped…
Binary star V Sagittae to explode as very bright nova by century’s end Currently, the faint star V Sagittae, V…
Looking back at a New Horizons New Year’s to remember Safe to say, 2020 came in more quietly for many…
Planetary nebula WR 72 has hydrogen-poor knots, study finds Using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), astronomers have conducted spectroscopic…
Scientists find evidence that Venus has active volcanoes New research led by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and published today…
Astronomers say SpaceX’s satellites are too bright in the sky. Friday’s launch will try to fix that They were seen…
New device in New Mexico turns back clock on astronomy A newly forged steel instrument that can pinpoint the path…
