Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...

An international collaboration of physicists including researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has made ...

Hyderabad-based EON Space Labs has developed MIRA, India’s first indigenous electro-optical space telescope, designed to ...

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The trip took place in July 2024 and took 6 days. Over that time, the flying observatory looked at two main sources: the Crab ...

After completing thermo-vacuum testing, EON Space Labs’ telescope will take a test flight with TakeMe2Space in December 2025.

Long before rockets and satellites reached space, the Crab Nebula stood out as a steady beacon of high-energy light. At its ...

Recent solar storms revealed a vulnerability in the computers that Airbus A320 family use to control the aircraft's altitude.

In the constellation Cygnus, a bright knot of stars seems to adorn one edge of a nearly perfect 20-light-year-wide circle, ...

A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.

It looks like something unnatural was in the sky in the months and years before Sputnik, according to one researcher.

NEW YORK -- A Chinese drug trafficking suspect who escaped custody in Mexico only to be recaptured in Cuba has been turned over to the U.S. to face charges he trafficked large quantities of cocaine ...