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ISS photo captures Atlantic sunglint 263 miles up, show...

"Sunlight" beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the In...

How to weigh a killer asteroid at 22 kilometers per second

Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the sing...

Research reveals cosmic tug-of-war behind the Crab Puls...

For the past two decades, scientists have wondered about a bright, distinct stri...

Europe's answer to Starship

In the summer of 2023, something happened that engineers had talked about for de...

Asteroid Ryugu samples offer new insights into early so...

To uncover the history of our solar system, it is necessary to study the dynamic...

A 690-million-kilometer journey through space ends for ...

After more than 25 months of successful operations in space, the SpIRIT mission ...

Life forms can planet hop on asteroid debris—and survive

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other ...

HETDEX data reveal a vast 'sea of light' between early ...

Astronomers with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) have...

The RCW 36 nebula: A cosmic hawk and its baby stars

This image, taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), seems to have captured ...

World's biggest astronomy camera seeks to answer pressi...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: inclu...

A Plan B for space? On the risks of concentrating natio...

Private companies are no longer peripheral participants in U.S. space activities...

Four decades of data give unique insight into the sun's...

Scientists have analyzed more than 40 years of astronomical data to uncover evid...

Space Force won't launch Vulcan rockets until booster p...

United Launch Alliance was hoping to ramp up its new Vulcan rocket launches this...

Hubble and Euclid zoom into cosmic eye

For this month's ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month, NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telesc...

EU pressures Meta over alleged smart glasses privacy br...

Meta faces questions about exporting Europeans’ data to Kenya without adequate s...

Claude AI experiences temporary global outage

The outage comes amid scrutiny from the US Department of Defense, which has requ...