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The initial colour images from ESA’s Euclid space telescope demonstrate its ability to capture wide-angle views that will shed light on the nature of dark energy and dark matter.

SpaceX is planning a Starlink delivery mission from Cape Canaveral Tuesday night, the first of three planned Falcon 9 launches in less than 48 hours. Liftoff from pad 40 is scheduled for 11:01 p.m. EST (0401 UTC).

When you’re starting out in astrophotography, the myriad technical terms can be daunting. Gain? Offset? Flat darks — or is it dark flats? Let’s clear up some common areas of confusion. We’ll start with gain. Setting the gain value affects a camera’s electronic gain, which is reported in electrons per […]

Students from Brighton Elementary School in Brighton, Tennessee, will have an opportunity this week to hear from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The space-to-Earth call will air live at 11:45 a.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 8, on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. […]

A runaway dead star predicted to have a close encounter with our solar system in tens of thousands of years will actually miss our neck of the cosmic woods.