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The Emmy Award-winning animation anthology returns with naked giants, Christmas demons, and robots-gone-wild!

If you’re a fan of titanium, you should head to the nearest supernova. You’ll get more than enough of it. And its presence can help astronomers understand how supernovae work. We understand the basic picture of how t...

A Japanese billionaire best known for buying a SpaceX Starship flight around the moon will go to space first on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station, two months after a Russian actress and direct...

Older stars should slow down, but new observations reveal that they have just as much of a spring in their step as their younger cousins. Astronomers suspect that complex interactions with the star’s magnetic field mig...

Telesat could start a spectrum auction to help fund its $5 billion Lightspeed low Earth orbit constellation "in a couple of months" if Canada's government approves its proposal, according to CEO Dan Goldberg. SpaceNews

NASA has selected Banner Quality Management Inc. (BQMI) and Peerless Technologies Corporation, a joint venture located in Fairview Park, Ohio, to provide information technology solutions in support of agency missions and...

Aspiring space station builders will have a chance to construct and manage fictional interstellar settlements in the new game, "Base One."

SpaceX plans to launch a prototype Starship vehicle from the usual location in South Texas and do a round-the-world flight that splashes down off the coast of Hawaii.

SpaceX has disclosed details for the first orbital test flight of its next-generation Starship launch system, but the company is still far short of the regulatory approvals needed for the mission. SpaceNews

Rocket Lab will launch two satellites early Saturday morning (May 15) and bring a booster down for a controlled ocean splashdown, and you can watch the action live.

China is about to attempt its first landing on the Red Planet.

A new report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that the launch of the long-awaited, highly anticipated James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will very likely be delayed due to an anomaly identified in t...

For the first few months of 2021, the Martian atmosphere was buzzing with new visitors from Earth.

NASA shared an amazing 3D video of its Mars helicopter Ingenuity's third successful flight on the Red Planet.

New fans and old veterans alike of "Mass Effect" will find things to appreciate in the remastered space games.

Mysterious circular objects in the distant universe are challenging for astronomers to explain.

A NASA-funded study is giving scientists insight into how "night-shining clouds" form in the upper atmosphere -- and the role that growing space traffic plays in the phenomenon.

High-precision noble gas analyses indicate that solar wind particles from our primordial Sun were encased in the Earth's core over 4.5 billion years ago. Researchers from the Institute of Earth Sciences at Heidelberg Uni...

California's Vandenberg Air Force Base will be renamed as a U.S. Space Force Base on Friday.

China's "Zhurong" rover, part of its ambitious space programme to send a probe to Mars, is set to attempt the challenging landing on the Red Planet in the next five days, Beijing's space agency said Friday.

The pieces are stacking up for the launch of Artemis 1 mission around the moon and back. The massive Space Launch Systems (SLS) rocket that will launch the first crewless test flight of the Orion spacecraft, powered by t...

Students from several states across the nation will have an opportunity next week to hear from astronauts aboard the International Space Station.