Back in the 1960s, Frank Drake, an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist, proposed an equation aimed at estimating the number of intelligent civilizations in our Universe. The equation ...

The Game Awards 2024 ceremony (Dec. 12) was one of the best in years, mixing tons of surprises with welcome updates on video games that we've all been wondering about. This also meant learning ...

"The discrepancy between the observed expansion rate of the universe and the predictions of the standard model suggests that our understanding of the universe may be incomplete. " New observations ...

SpaceX’s next mission has nothing to do with rockets. Instead, it’s aiming to turn its Starbase facility into a new Texas city. In a post on X on Thursday, SpaceX chief Elon Musk shared a ...

Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is bracing for delays in launching key ...

Why it's so special: NGC 4694 is a galaxy that cannot be easily classified into one of the two basic galaxy types: spiral and elliptical. Astronomers needed to examine its properties in detail to ...

The first Zhuque-2E rocket lifts off from Jiuquan in the Gobi Desert on Nov. 27 (UTC), 2024. Credit: Landspace HELSINKI — Chinese launch startup Landspace put two satellites into orbit late ...

What it is: Sombrero Galaxy (M104), a spiral galaxy. Where it is: 30 million light-years distant in the Virgo constellation. When it was shared: Nov. 25, 2024. Why it's so special: It may have ...

Earth’s space junk may be wreaking havoc on the stratosphere. The rapid surge in satellite megaconstellations is connecting much of the world to broadband internet. But each year, hundreds of ...

ULA’s first Vulcan rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on January 8. (United Launch Alliance) Two Space Force missions slated to fly on United ...