A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from United States national security planners, not because of its economic promise, but because of the technical problems it is ...

Deep space has just delivered a cosmic curveball: an object that behaves so strangely it appears to break the rules astronomers use to describe how the universe grew up. The discovery centers on an ...

An Unknown Deep-Space Signal Reaches Humanity, It Lasted Just 10 Seconds ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it warped light through gravitational lensing. The invisible mass, about a ...

Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher captured a haunting vista in July earlier this year, in which several deep-sky objects take on the collective appearance of a colossal cosmic shark hunting in the ...

(The REPORTER) — “Being able to see those cosmic objects that are millions and millions of miles away is very, very fascinating for me,” local astrophotographer Sid Krishnamoorthi said. We often ...

Falls Church-based Fortune 500 defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. has won a $341 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop and test a ground-based surveillance radar in support of ...

A rogue rocket booster could collide with the moon in the next few weeks, according to space experts, an event that could leave a crater on the far side of the moon. The SpaceX Falcon rocket stage was ...

A transmit antenna at Site 1 of the Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) in Western Australia is shown at night. Credit: Doug Humphries, BAE Systems WASHINGTON — A new deep-space radar site in ...

Not too long ago the thought of having a capable home observatory in your own back garden seemed impossible, but now it is. You can see into the depths of the cosmos from the comfort of your own home.