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Katalyst Space Technologies must launch the Swift rescue mission by this summer.

Regulus will suddenly disappear from view for a couple of hours on the first evening of British summer time ...

SpaceX filed plans with the FCC for up to one million satellites designed to function as orbital data centers. Astronomers are not happy.

An extraordinary coincidence occurred when astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a wayward comet.

Astronomers have uncovered surprising evidence of a thick atmosphere surrounding TOI-561 b, a scorching, fast-orbiting rocky planet once thought too extreme to hold onto any gas. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, researchers found the planet . ...

This week's result is just the latest in a growing collection of discoveries.

In an incredibly lucky cosmic accident, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a comet breaking apart in real time--something astronomers have long tried and failed to observe. The comet, C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), wasn't even the original target, but when . ...

There may be a river delta hidden under the obvious delta in a Martian crater.

Families and astronomers gathered in Shipley on Thursday to try and spot a slither the new moon.

Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself apart ...