A gravitational-wave telescope on the Moon could span the gap between Earth-based and space-based observations.
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The International Space Station (ISS) is about to get a little bigger. On July 21, the Russian Space Agency launched the station’s...
Launching satellites is an expensive business – at least for now. But satellites are necessary in astronomy for one major reason...
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Ever since the announcement last September that astronomers found evidence of phosphine in the clouds of Venus, the planet has...
Dark matter rules every galaxy. But what exactly is it? Astronomers believe it to be some kind of new, exotic particle. You may...
The Shanghai Astronomy Museum, the largest museum in the world dedicated solely to the study of the cosmos, will open its door...
At this point, SpaceX could claim to be both a rocket company and also a maritime shipping company. The company owns a fleet...
Planets move in mysterious ways. Or at least their surfaces do. Earth famously has a system of tectonic plates that drives...