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Atlantic hurricane season begins today (June 1), and several new weather satellites will collect valuable data to improve hurricane forecasting this year.

With sharp optics and a chest harness included, the Vortex 10x50 Crossfire HD binocular is an excellent value mid-range option for stargazing and more.

NASA's sun-grazing spacecraft will make its 12th close flyby of our star on Wednesday (June 1), marking the halfway point of the mission.

NASA will apparently announce today (June 1) who's going to make the spacesuits for its Artemis moon program, and you can watch the big reveal live.

The launch of NASA's CAPSTONE moon mission has been pushed back another week, to no earlier than June 13.

Lucasfilm has just announced a new February 2023 arrival for "The Mandalorian" Season 3 on Disney Plus.

There are notable nods to "The Wrath of Khan" in episode 4 of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds."

China is gearing up to send the third crew to its new Tiangong space station, with launch set for late Saturday (June 4) U.S. Eastern time.

NS-21, the next mission of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle, is now targeted for Saturday (June 4) — about two weeks later than originally planned.

A single flash from the sky pointed the way to a bizarre star that rotates very slowly, making it difficult to figure out if it's a pulsar or some other stellar object.

"Shooting stars" from a new meteor shower lit up the night sky in a dazzling display, even if it wasn't a "meteor storm" some stargazers hoped for.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has delayed the completion of its environmental review of SpaceX's Starship program by another two weeks, to June 13.

Microwave jammers, mini-satellites and space lasers could all be used to scuttle Starlink .

The CAPSTONE mission will test the feasibility of an energy-efficient orbit and navigation around the moon in preparation for the Artemis mission.

Japan's Himawari-8 weather satellite serendipitously captured the dramatic changes in brightness of Orion's red supergiant star in 2019-2020.

The way each planet's atmosphere responds to methane might be responsible for the different hues of Uranus and Neptune.

A geologist explains what the "doorway" on Mars really is and why it's so tempting to see recognizable shapes on other worlds.

One day you’re a Jedi Knight, the next you’re harvesting meat in the middle of the desert and living in a cave with your hairless camel…

You don’t have to be an inquisitor to hunt down all of ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’s’ Easter eggs and Star Wars references, but it helps…

Here are four big scientific questions about the Milky Way that astronomers hope to solve with the upcoming data dump from the European Gaia galaxy-charting mission.

A peculiar pair of galaxies swirls together in a mesmerizing new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope.