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The massive eruption from the underwater Tonga volcano earlier this year generated a blast so powerful, it sent the fastest pressure waves ever observed in our atmosphere rippling around the globe.

We may not have to wait too much longer for the first-ever orbital test flight of SpaceX's Starship deep-space transportation system.

Astrophysicists are puzzled by the discovery of a star whipping around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way in close proximity and faster than any star previously found.

NASA's tiny CAPSTONE moon probe is back in touch with its handlers, ending a short but spooky silent period.

A space rock at least the size of a bus will safely whiz by our planet today, and you can watch the event on a free livestream.

An early-stage Martian sailplane soared aloft, tethered to a balloon, as engineers ponder the possibilities to expand Red Planet flight.

When a tiny space rock hit the asteroid Bennu, it caused a landslide across the space rock and a massive crater.

Earth's magnetic field originates in the outer core and extends out into the magnetosphere — a region of space that helps protect Earth from space weather.

Operators lost contact with the moon-bound CAPSTONE satellite yesterday (July 5) after initially completing a set of tasks following its separation from the rocket upper stage.

This impressive 'push to' light bucket with smartphone app alignment is an easy way to explore both deep-sky and solar system targets.

The palm-sized Autel EVO Nano+ offers advanced features while keeping its weight below 250g.

The 10-foot-tall (3 meters) Mars Ascent Vehicle will blast rock, sediment and atmospheric samples off Mars in the early 2030s, in the first-ever rocket launch from the surface of another planet.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back with more powerful collisions than ever before and scientists are thrilled to see what they can learn.

Russia's federal space agency recently shared images of its cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station brandishing the flags of two Russian-backed separatist territories in eastern Ukraine.

The messy system of Beta Pictoris will come under scrutiny to learn how similar it is to our solar system.

It's gripping, it's gritty and this episode pulls no punches in the show's most daring installment yet.

It was on Independence Day 25 years ago that a little rover named after a Civil War abolitionist parachuted and tumbled to the Red Planet's surface on airbags.

The 55-pound (25 kilograms) CAPSTONE moon probe ceased communicating with its handlers shortly after it deployed successfully from Rocket Lab's Photon spacecraft bus yesterday (July 4).

The James Webb Space Telescope will investigate a stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula, promising to reveal the earliest stages of star formation.

"For All Mankind" is heading to Mars by way of San Diego Comic Con. Between a pair of panels and a set of mission patches, the Apple TV+ alternate space history series will be well represented.

The eVscope 2 telescope is a telescope and astrocamera-in-one that is easy to use, automatically navigates to night sky objects and is easily controlled via an app.