NASA's NICER telescope halts its mission after a key motor fails; engineers attempt to salvage eight years of space science.

Stars and satellites are meeting more frequently in the night sky, raising vital questions about the future of astronomy.

The United States' spy satellite agency is giving NASA two spare space telescopes free of charge, each potentially more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA officials announced today (June 4 ...

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The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries ...

The Sun, an ever-burning ball of gas at the center of our solar system, has always fascinated people. But now, scientists are seeing it like never before. Thanks to the most powerful solar telescope ...

Almost 20 years on from the first autonomous propellant transfer and battery replacement, the service may be commercially ...

Starfish Space raised $29 million in 2024 to develop autonomous vehicles for life-extension in geostationary orbit and ...

Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a moment, it outshined everything else in the sky. The ensuing search for its ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...