Space

Can you believe it’s been 509 long days since the last episode of “Star Trek: Discovery” Season 2? But fear not, for “Star Trek” Day today (Sept. 8) — which celebrates 54 years since the show’s original iteration premiered — CBS has rewarded our patience with what every “Star Trek” fan […]

Brig. Gen. Cothern: What type of launch vehicles will be needed “depends on the threats.”

Whatever we grow up with, we think of as normal. Our single solitary yellow star seems normal to us, with planets orbiting on the same, aligned ecliptic. But most stars aren’t alone; most are in binary relationships. And some are in triple-star systems.

New studies of a rare type of meteorite show that material from close to the Sun reached the outer solar system even as the planet Jupiter cleared a gap in the disk of dust and gas from which the planets formed. The results, published this week in Proceedings of the […]

GOES-13 has been repurposed as the Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System – Geostationary.

With Europe’s first AI Earth observation mission ɸ-sat-1 in space, ɸ-sat-2 is now underway.

The camera core for the future Vera C. Rubin Observatory has snapped its first test photos, setting a new world record for the largest single shot by a giant digital camera.

China’s mysterious reusable experimental spacecraft has safely landed after two days in space, according to state media, and may have deployed a satellite while in orbit.

An international team of astronomers has conducted spectroscopic and photometric observations of a cataclysmic variable (CV) known as V1460 Her. Results of the study indicate that the system consists of a fast-spinning white dwarf that accretes matter from its evolved companion star. The finding is reported in a paper published […]

A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has completed the deepest and broadest search at low frequencies for alien technologies, scanning a patch of sky known to include at least 10 million stars.