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NASA's Orion spacecraft started its trip back to Earth Dec. 1 with the first of two maneuvers that will put the spacecraft on course for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean in a week and a half. The post Orion begins retur...

When a flash of light appears somewhere in the sky, astronomers notice. When it appears in a region of the sky not known to host a stellar object that’s flashed before, they really sit up and take notice. In astronomic...

A SpaceX Dragon that twice splashed down has now landed for its last time -- in Chicago. The spacecraft, which flew to the International Space Station, arrived at the Museum of Science and Industry.

NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft successfully completed a roughly two-minute lunar departure burn on Thursday (Dec. 1) to begin heading home after successful lunar orbits.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved SpaceX to deploy 7,500 next-generation Starlink internet satellites -- one-quarter of the company's planned constellation.

NASA will provide live coverage of the Artemis I uncrewed Orion spacecraft's return flyby of the Moon on Monday, Dec. 5, as well as its return to Earth on Sunday, Dec. 11.

Two NASA astronauts will conduct a spacewalk Saturday (Dec. 3) to install new solar arrays on the International Space Station, and you can watch the action live.

NASA has released a second supercut video of the Artemis I mission that captures the mission highlights The post NASA Releases Another Supercut of the Artemis I Mission, Showing the Launch and Flight Past the Moon appear...

The U.S. Air Force will unveil the new Northrop Grumman-built B-21 Raider stealth bomber today (Dec. 2), an aircraft that has been called "the most advanced military aircraft ever built."

A Martian megatsunami may have raced across the Red Planet after a cosmic impact similar to the one that likely ended Earth's age of dinosaurs, a new study finds.

Planetary scientists have greatly anticipated using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared vision to study Saturn's enigmatic moon Titan and its atmosphere. The wait is finally over and the results are spectacular. Pl...

In the absence of direct observations of extraterrestrial life, scientists often focus on searching for biosignatures, chemical by-products of life, that can be detected with remote sensing. Although Mars has received th...

Bright, blue-white stars of the open cluster BSDL 2757 pierce through the rusty-red tones of gas and dust clouds in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image.

Less than two weeks after a bright fireball lit up the sky above the Great Lakes, another spectacular meteor impressed skywatchers in the Northeast.

The European Space Agency made history last week with the announcement of the first "parastronaut," 41-year-old UK citizen John McFall.

In clusters of galaxies there is a fraction of stars which wander off into intergalactic space because they are pulled out by huge tidal forces generated between the galaxies in the cluster. The light emitted by these st...

New Chinese research suggests that optical variability in emission-line galaxies (ELGs) is likely caused by star-formation activity rather than the activity of supermassive black holes.

Disney and Marvel Studios release the first trailer for next year's "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3."

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the direction of Prof. Wang Rongsheng and Prof. Lu Quanming, used data from the Magnetospheric Multiscal...

UFOs are making headlines again, but lost in the hype and ruckus is the question of when this all started and how we got to this point.

European astronomers have conducted X-ray and optical observations of a transitional millisecond pulsar known as PSR J1023+0038. Results of the observational campaign, published November 23 on arXiv.org, yield important ...

OneWeb said SpaceX is slated to launch 40 of its satellites as early as Dec. 6 to complete almost 80% of its low Earth orbit broadband constellation. The post OneWeb aims to deploy a record 40 satellites in SpaceX missio...