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The telescope, working with the world's largest digital camera, scans the night sky in search of dark matter.

The amount of data generated by the Rubin Observatory is going to blow all previous cosmic datasets out of the water, but handling that much information poses a severe challenge.

After more than 24 hours on orbit, the the private astronaut crew of Axiom-4 has caught up to the International Space Station, docked and been welcomed aboard for their two-week mission.

The last frontier is now an opportunity for finance. Once the playground of state space agencies, the region has turned into a robust environment for private enterprise, ranging from agile satellite-launch ventures to ambitious space-tech platforms. The industry has been warming up for quite some time, but it’s recent developments…

The four astronauts of the private Ax-4 mission to the ISS represent four different countries, so the food they're carrying up has a very international flavor.

TWA 7b is 110 light years away and by far the smallest-mass planet to be observed by direct imagery

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, TWA 7b which is also the lightest exoplanet ever to be directly imaged.

A mysterious and powerful blast of radio waves detected last year, suspected to originate far beyond the Milky Way came from a long-dead NASA spacecraft in Earth's orbit.

The culprit was a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching the Transporter-14 satellite rideshare mission.