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Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a rapidly spinning, highly magnetized neutron star or “magnetar” for the first time. The observation of this event, triggered by the death of a

NASA is one step closer to sending a drone mission to another world. Technicians at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland have begun building and testing the

The Cederblad 51 nebula in the constellation Orion. (Image credit: Emil Andronic) Astrophotographer Emil Andronic spent nearly 70 hours capturing the light of a beguiling reflection nebula near the head

NASA needs to wait one more day to roll its moon rocket back to the launchpad, but that shouldn’t affect when it launches. The Artemis 2 Space Launch System (SLS)

For the past few weeks, some may have reported a bright “UFO” hovering just above the western horizon right after the sun has gone down. But by the time the

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the Crab Nebula taken in 2024. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, William Blair (JHU); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)) NASA has released new Hubble

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A massive solar eruption from the sun poses no threat to NASA’s planned launch of its Artemis 2 mission to the moon this week, the space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the first time in over 50 years, astronauts from Earth have launched to the moon. NASA’s most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System, lit up

Traveling far from her home planet helped Artemis 2 astronaut Christina Koch appreciate it even more. Koch and her crewmates talked with some of their International Space Station (ISS) counterparts

Artificial lights at night brightened up planet Earth by 16% between 2014 and 2022, a new study using satellite images has revealed. But some areas, including those struck by war