Astronomers used James Webb Space Telescope data to determine the density of the universe's most mysterious "stuff." ...

A Rocket Lab Electron launched the first satellites for a new Open Cosmos constellation that will use spectrum previously assigned to Rivada.

Weak gravitational lensing, the bending of light from distant galaxies by intervening mass, remains one of the most direct ...

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global ...

Findings allow scientists to learn more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and planets ...

"In about two weeks from now, on or near May 9-10, an unusual uncontrolled reentry will happen." In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran ...

Cosmos 482, the exploratory spacecraft launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in March 1972, has finally ended its mission. The 50-year-old lander probe returned to Earth early Saturday, May 10, ...

Scientists hope SPHEREx will provide data lending new insights into the origins of the universe and whether the ingredients for life exist anywhere else in our Milky Way galaxy. The telescope launched ...

A wayward Soviet spacecraft, adrift for more than half a century, will fall to Earth on Friday or Saturday, astronomers said. The craft, which came to be known as Cosmos 482, was Venus-bound when it ...

A Russian satellite named Cosmos 2553 is showing signs that it may no longer be working properly. Launched just weeks before the Ukraine conflict began in 2022, this satellite was sent into a ...

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A newly designed rank insignia in Washington, D.C. on May 15, 2020. Far out in geosynchronous orbit, a Russian satellite moves through deep space. Cosmos 2553, nicknamed “Sput-nuke,” is designed to ...