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IDW Publishing offers up a spooky one-shot starring Starscream with "Transformers: Halloween Special."

A new study examines two rocky exoplanets (TOI-1634b and TOI-1685b) that appear to have been stripped of their atmospheres. The post Astronomers Look at Super-Earths That had Their Atmospheres Stripped Away by Their Star...

World View Enterprises is developing a balloon-based system that will carry people to the stratosphere, with the first commercial flights targeted for 2024, the company announced today (Oct. 4).

The Space Force Intelligence Activity was stood up Sept. 24 as an interim organization until the National Space Intelligence Center is established. SpaceNews

Sometime around 2.4 billion years ago, a nascent planet Earth underwent one of the most dramatic changes in its history. Known as the Great Oxidation Event, this period saw Earth's atmosphere suddenly bloom with (previou...

Read live updates of William Shatner's launch into space on Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital spacecraft on Oct. 12, 2021.

Voyager Space announced Oct. 4 it has acquired Valley Tech Systems, a company that developed solid-fueled propulsion for long-range missiles, as well as signal processing and geolocation technologies for the U.S. militar...

A new study shows how next-generation observatories could directly observe oceans on exoplanets, which could narrow the search for extraterrestrial life. The post A Technique to Find Oceans on Other Worlds appeared first...

Media accreditation is open for the upcoming launch of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, an evaluation of technologies for preventing a hazardous asteroid from striking Earth.

The 1918 influenza pandemic spread through the U.S. in fatal surges, much like the COVID-19 pandemic that began a century later.

On Oct. 5, 2021, Russia will launch a film crew to the International Space Station for a 12-day mission to film part of a movie in space. See photos of the crew and their mission here!

It stars Owen Wilson as a cowboy-hatted Jeff Bezos.

At least dozens of people reported seeing a brilliant fireball over Colorado early Sunday (Oct. 3).

The newest known example of a rare type of object in the Solar System--a comet hidden among the main-belt asteroids--has been found and studied, according to a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist He...

In a historic first, Russia is set to launch an actor and a film director into space to make a feature film in orbit--a project the nation's space chief has hailed as a chance to raise the prestige of Russia's space prog...

Maxar Technologies won a $44 million contract option from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to continue to provide U.S. government agencies with access to unclassified high-resolution commercial imagery from Ma...

Use the best intervalometers with your camera when you want to make time-lapse clips and capture star trails.

Video: 00:02:06 ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet takes you on a tour of the International Space Station like no other. Filmed with a 360 camera, the Space Station 360 series lets you explore for yourself alongside Thomas's e...

When Pluto passed in front of a star on the night of August 15, 2018, a Southwest Research Institute-led team of astronomers had deployed telescopes at numerous sites in the U.S. and Mexico to observe Pluto's atmosphere ...

When Pluto passed in front of a star on the night of August 15, 2018, a Southwest Research Institute-led team of astronomers had deployed telescopes at numerous sites in the U.S. and Mexico....

Not all who wander are lost – but sometimes their cell phone reception is. That might change soon if a plan to project basic cell phone coverage to all parts of the globe comes to fruition. Lynk has already proven it c...

The Mars Perseverance rover is on the move! The HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted the rover from above, the first view since shortly after the rover landed in February 2021. Perseverance appears as...