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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has released four stunning images of cosmic wonders, depicted in red, white and blue for the America 250 anniversary on July 4.

A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to launch over 1.7 million satellites into orbit, including extremely bright ones, would have devastating consequences for astronomy. Accor...

The European Space Agencys XMM-Newton and NASAs Chandra X-ray space telescopes have spotted the aftermath of three bright explosions echoing through the outer spiral arms of our galaxy, the Milky Way. By measuring the di...

SAN FRANCISCO - Vantor, the company previously known as Maxar Intelligence, unveiled WorldView 3D July 1, to provide customers with updated and high-definition imagery. WorldView 3D is driving towards currency, [] The po...

EchoStar subsidiaries tied to its satellite TV and abandoned 5G network businesses have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, advancing a prepackaged restructuring plan to repay debt early after selling spectrum to...

French startup Latitude intends to perform the first launch of its small launch vehicle from a spaceport in Oman in late 2027. The post Latitude plans to conduct first launch from Oman appeared first on SpaceNews.

As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the history of the solar system tells its own story of exploration.

A month after a devastating pad explosion, Blue Origin reiterated plans to return its New Glenn vehicle to flight from a rebuilt launch pad by the end of the year. The post Blue Origin outlines new launch pad approach as...

When SpaceX publicly listed, the coverage focused on the rockets, the valuation, and the personalities. Thats understandable. But the more important story is what the IPO signals about where the [] The post The SpaceX IP...

Millions of stars. Thousands of hidden worlds. One unprecedented view of our galaxy. Three years since launch, ESA's Euclid space telescope reveals the center of the Milky Way galaxy in extraordinary detail: a mosaic...

A coronal mass ejection accompanied the X1.1 solar flare.

Video: 00:10:45 Millions of stars. Thousands of hidden worlds. One unprecedented view of our galaxy.Three years since launch, ESAs Euclid space telescope reveals the Milky Way galaxys centre in extraordinary detail: a mo...

A new NASA audit says the agency will need to purchase more astronaut flights to the ISS by 2030 and focuses on issues with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.

Research has shed new light on why some distant galaxies suddenly stop forming stars. An international team led by astronomers at the University of Nottingham has used the James Webb Space Telescope to study a large samp...

Five explorers from three space agencies have successfully completed ESAs CAVES training course in Italy.

When stars like the Sun reach the end of their lives, the textbook story has them puffing up and quietly shedding their outer layers to leave a white dwarf behind. A new model suggests it is far less serene than that. As...

Even the universes emptiest regions, the vast voids that make up most of the volume of space, are not entirely empty. A new study using the CAVITY survey hunts for galaxy groups hiding within these voids, applying a frie...

Imagine standing in the emptiest place the universe has to offer, a stretch of cosmic ocean so vast that light takes tens of millions of years to cross it, and yet still finding company. That is the puzzle behind a new s...

Saturns moon, Enceladus, has become a prime solar system target for astrobiologists. This is because the small moon, which is just over 10 percent the diameter of Earths Moon, harbors a vast subsurface ocean beneath its ...

Searching for habitable worlds beyond our solar system consists of more than just having it orbit within its stars habitable zone, which is the region where temperatures could be just right for liquid water to exist on t...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii Island, have discovered the third known galaxy apparently lacking dark matter, part of a strange linear structure that may have formed during a violent collisi...

NASA on Tuesday announced new uncrewed missions to aid in the future creation of a lunar surface base, a project beginning to take shape despite recent setbacks.