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China's Shenzhou 18 crew are ready to return home after more than six months in space.

Voyager 1 was launched waaaaaay back in 1977. I would have been 4 years old then! It's an incredible achievement that technology that was built THAT long ago is still working. Yet here we are in 2024, Voyager 1 and 2 are...

A three-person Chinese crew returned to Earth early Monday after more than six months aboard the Tiangong space station, state news agency Xinhua reported.

As we saw with JWST, it's difficult and expensive to launch large telescope apertures, relying on origami techniques to unfold the full mirror. A new paper proposes that telescope mirrors could be made out of a thin poly...

Space.com has an exclusive three-page preview of IDW's new "Star Trek: Lower Decks #1" comic.

Disney is returning to the Grid with "Tron: Ares" in 2025, but the threat may be in the real world this time around.

Duff Goldman, the host of the Food Network show "Ace of Cakes," has for a third year brought a space-themed cake to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

We live in a golden age for learning about the universe. Our most powerful telescopes have revealed that the cosmos is surprisingly simple on the largest visible scales.

Most of the diverse elements in the universe come from supernovae. We are, quite literally, made of the dust of those long-dead stars and other astrophysical processes. But the details of how it all comes about are somet...