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A new 'Ahsoka' featurette goes behind the scenes to delve into the connection between Jedi masters and their apprentices in the "Star Wars" universe.

The foundations of Michigan State University's first astronomy building recently came to light, showing a long history of telescope work in the Wolverine State.

Thanks to the sun's 11-year-long cycle, Neptune might be systematically purged of its clouds.

NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency's SpaceX Crew-7 mission with astronauts to the International Space Station.

NASA's Artemis program has one tower standing and one just getting started.

Human missions to Mars will require a substantial launch vehicle to ascend from Mars to rendezvous with a waiting Earth return vehicle in Mars orbit. For an ascending crew of 6, the current best estimate of oxygen propel...

The Landsat 8 satellite captured the deadly flames that burned through the town of Lahaina in Hawaii and killed at least 99 people.

An exclusive first peek at Boom! Studios' new sci-fi limited series, 'The Space Between.'

For the first time in nearly three decades of observations, clouds seen on Neptune have all but vanished. Images from 1994 to 2022 of the big blue planet captured from Maunakea on Hawai i Island through the lens of W. M....

Satellite images reveal the scope of devastating wildfires in the Canadian northwest where an entire capital city had to be evacuated due to approaching flames.

Luna-25, Russia's first moon mission since 1976, has snapped its first detailed photo of the lunar surface.

SpaceX, Kuiper Government Solutions and Aalyria Technologies were selected for market-research studies on how commercial systems could add capacity to the military's future low Earth orbit constellation. The post Space D...

Just how dark is the night sky?

A newly discovered, highly magnetic and massive helium star could explain how magnetars, stellar corpses with the universe's strongest magnetic fields, are born.

Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the universe. These super-dense dead stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields can be found all over our galaxy but astronomers don't know exactly how they form.

The Milky Way and Andromeda are set to collide in a few billion years but are still over two million light-years apart. Cosmologically, this is right next door, but it could still be far enough to measure the effect of d...

SpaceX plans to launch 21 of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Friday (Aug. 18), and you can watch the liftoff live.

The 50th woman to fly into space, Karen Nyberg has paid tribute to the first woman and first American woman to do so with a pair of original works celebrating the first 60 years of women in space.

India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander is a step closer to landing on the moon after separating Aug. 17 from the propulsion module that carried the mission to lunar orbit.

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof. Han Jinlin from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) has detected distinct...

Huginn - piloting the Dragon Huginn

Gaze at some of our best 2023 Perseid meteor shower photo submissions from across the world.