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The cosmic zoo has strange beasts that astronomers stumble across in the most fascinating ways. Not long ago a team in Australia found a highly unusual magnetar, one of the weirder denizens of the starry zoo. It’s call...

A NASA procurement document provides details about the plans of several companies that received unfunded Space Act Agreements for commercial space capabilities in June, as well as those who failed to make the cut. The po...

Spare time on the International Space Station sometimes involves space games, and astronauts just invented a new one.

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured an incredible panoramic image of the Milky Way from the Lut (Dasht-e Lut) desert in Iran.

Chinese startup Galactic Energy sent two satellites into orbit early Saturday with the company's sixth consecutive successful launch. The post Galactic Energy registers sixth consecutive successful launch appeared first ...

The irregular galaxy Arp 263 lurks in the background of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, but the view is dominated by a stellar photobomber, the bright star BD+17 2217. Arp 263--also known as NGC 3239...

SpaceX's next Starship Super Heavy booster looks amazing in these glory shots showing the huge rocket on its orbital launch mount.

SpaceX will launch 22 Starlink satellites to orbit tonight (July 22), and you can watch the action live.