The expansion of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation, which promises to bring faster internet to remote corners of the ...

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After 350 years, the UK's first female Astronomer Royal has been appointed. Professor Michele Dougherty will act as an ...

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An international team of astronomers has captured one of the most detailed images yet of a spectacular, ribbon-like jet ...

Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten ...

High above our planet, where the magnetosphere meets the emptiness of space, a powerful battle unfolds. Streams of charged ...

What processes other than water and energy could be responsible for creating life on other worlds? This is what a recent ...

A newly discovered dwarf planet called 'Ammonite' (2023 KQ14) has been spotted in the outer solar system, and it could be ...

On Wednesday (July 23), Diana Morant, the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities in Spain, announced the Spanish ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the ...