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Six years ago, SpaceX was the upstart launch company seeking to break United Launch Alliance's monopoly on national security space launches. Now, it's part of the establishment. SpaceNews

An international team of astronomers discovered some surprising when studying a debris ring around our Milky Way: the remnants of an ancient globular cluster The post A Globular Cluster was Completely Dismantled and Turn...

SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule cruised into its home port Friday evening (Aug. 7), secured to one of the company's recovery vessels.

Did you know that astronauts on the International Space Station send pictures from space to ground over amateur radio that you yourself can get at home using your computer?...

At first glance, it looks like something from an alien autopsy. A strange organ cut from a xenomorph’s thorax, under the flickering lights of an operating room in a top secret government facility, with venous tendrils ...

Protoplanetary disks – where young stars are forming their families of planets – usually form concentric rings of gaps. But astronomers have recently spotted a surprising situation: an adolescent star surrounded by g...

We know that the carbon in your bones was formed long ago in the heart of a star. But how did that carbon actually make its way to your bones? It’s a bit of a complicated puzzle, and recent observations with the SOFIA ...

A famed asteroid observatory overcame a tropical storm to determine the threat level of a space rock zooming by Earth. Happily, in both cases everything worked out just fine.

CBS confirms the "Star Trek: Discovery" third season premiere date, while Season 2 of "The Mandalorian" is once again expected to air at around the same time.

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft is preparing for its final rehearsal before touching down on asteroid Bennu this fall to snag a piece of space rock.