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NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and France's Sophie Adenot will conduct the sixth all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (Sept. 1), and you can watch it live.

Black holes are some of the most awe-inspiring and mysterious celestial objects in the universe. This is primarily because astronomers still dont understand the underlying mechanisms that drive black holes, including its...

NASA's Roman space telescope, which launched on Aug. 30, is part of a small set of missions named after female historical figures.

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all visible this September. Here's when and where to look.

A photo of ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot on the outside of the International Space Station captures the staggering altitude at which the crewed laboratory orbits Earth.

Yesterday, on 31 August 2026, Samba reentered Earths atmosphere at 21:39:38 UTC / 23:39:38 CEST as the third of the four Cluster satellites.Samba had been lined up for a special 'targeted reentry' safely over the...

We buddied up to check out Orbitals, a sci-fi anime spin on "It Takes Two"'s classic co-op action.

By combining roughly two decades of observations from NASA's Swift X-ray Telescope with radio monitoring, astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Perseus Cluster suddenly flaring in X-ra...

The universe has been having fewer and fewer stellar "babies." Over the past 4.5 billion years, the rate of star birth has crashed to less than half of what it once was. But here's the twist: the most essenti...

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In summer 2026, a substantial iceberg calved from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland and swiftly drifted into Nares Strait, colliding with an island along the way.

Scientists and philosophers have argued over the nature of time since well, since time immemorial. Is time real, or is it a convenient illusion? Why does time seem to flow in just one direction? In a new book called On T...