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Sometimes astronomers come up with awesome names for certain phenomena and then feel like they can't use them in formal scientific contexts. Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are one of those – colloquially they are known...

What's beyond the known limits? What lies outside the boundary of the universe? The answer is ... well, it's complicated.

SpaceX's first long-duration astronaut mission is coming to an end, with a Dragon capsule undocking from the International Space Station and headed for a splashdown Sunday.

Walt Disney Imagineering R&D is building an adorable dancing robotic Baby Groot for its theme parks.

The U.S. nuclear command, control and communications system could be vulnerable to cyber attacks and needs upgrades, Sen. Angus King told reporters May 1. SpaceNews

A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico May 2, returning four astronauts from a five-and-a-half-month stay on the International Space Station. SpaceNews

Four astronauts splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday, completing NASA's first commercial crew, long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station. The return comes nearly six months after the crew ...

If you’ve been following developments in astronomy over the last few years, you may have heard about the so-called “crisis in cosmology,” which has astronomers wondering whether there might be something wrong with ...

According to a new animation, it appears that China is hoping to build a Starship of its own, one that can provide intercontinental flights for paying customers. The post Chinese Company Claims to be Working on a Starshi...

Even the Milky Way seems too small to keep the egos of tech billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk from colliding as they vie to conquer space.

SpaceX safely returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on Sunday, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot.

If there are aliens out there, they probably aren't in the central region of our galaxy. The post Breakthrough Listen Searched for Signals From Intelligent Civilizations Near the Center of the Milky Way appeared first on...

Astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker of NASA, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) splashed down safely in the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience in the Gulf of Mexico o...

A SpaceX Dragon capsule returned four astronauts to Earth early Sunday (May 2) in the first nighttime splashdown of a NASA crew since Apollo 8 in 1968.

A new, deluxe "making-of" book revealsg the Imagineering magic behind Disney's amazing "Star Wars"-themed land.