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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 27 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. The first stage then made the company's 550th landing.

'No matter what your traditions are, someone is going to break them.'

Researchers using NASAs James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky planet outside our solar system. Observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth TOI-561 b suggest that t...

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 light-years away and the SMC is about 206,000 light-years away, and their close proximity makes...

It's one of the 21st century's best sci-fi shows. If only "The Expanse" had found the audience it deserved.

December's faint Ursid meteor shower returns under dark skies, offering a small chance of unexpected activity.

Carl Sagan famously said that Were all made of star-stuff. But he didnt elaborate on how that actually happened. Yes, many of the molecules in our bodies could only have been created in massive supernovae explosions - he...

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket successfully launched a technology demonstration satellite for JAXA Dec. 13 as the company reshuffles its launch manifest. The post Rocket Lab launches JAXA tech demo satellite appeared first...

A research team has investigated long-term X-ray variability in the neutron star NGC 7793 P13, an object thought to be driven by supercritical accretion, where an extraordinary amount of gas falls onto the object and emi...

Assuming Google does manage to launch a prototype in 2027, will it simply be a high-stakes technical experiment - or the dawning of a new era?

The early universe was a very different place than today. And by early I dont mean a billion or even ten billion years ago. The universe is about 13.77 billion years old, and when it was only a handful of seconds old, it...