Photons come in every wavelength you can imagine. But one particular quantum transition makes light at precisely 21 cm, and it's magical.

China on Wednesday successfully conducted its first satellite laser ranging experiment at lunar-distance scales, marking a major technological breakthrough in deep-space exploration.The breakthrough was announced on Friday by the Technology and Engineering

IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 The International Space Station (ISS) faces rising safety concerns due to structural cracks and air leaks. 💰 Proposed NASA budget cuts by the Trump administration threaten the safe deorbiting of the ISS by 2030. 🛰️ SpaceX is contracted to develop a U.S. Deorbit Vehicle (USDV), but...

The outer solar system is theoretically predicted to harbour an undiscovered planet, often referred to as P9. Simulations suggest that its gravitational influence could explain the unusual clustering of minor bodies in the Kuiper Belt. However, no observational evidence for P9 has been found so far,...

How we understand the wider cosmos from our tiny observable bubble of space.

Stitching together 343 distinct photos, Joshua Rozells illuminates a growing problem of satellites polluting the night sky.

China has successfully deployed the world's first three-satellite constellation on the distant retrograde orbit (DRO) of the Earth-Moon system, marking a milestone in the country's deep-space exploration capabilities, scientists announced at an academic symposium in Beijing on Monday.

‘Each of these eruptions is releasing a hundred times more energy than we have seen elsewhere.’

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton is playing a crucial role in investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behaviour unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to learn more about these powerful events and the m...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has repeated its record-smashing performance of December 2024, swooping down within a scorching 6.1 million kilometers (3.8 million miles) of the Sun's surface.

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom scientists, who say it could slash travel time to Mars to one or two months. ;

China and Pakistan on Friday signed a cooperation agreement in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, on the spaceflight of a Pakistani astronaut to China's space station.The selection process will last for about a year, and the Pakistani astronauts will