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The European sun-chasing spacecraft Solar Orbiter has snapped the closest image of the sun ever taken, revealing the finest details of our star's outer atmosphere, the corona.

The best travel tripods can be a worthwhile addition for photographers on the move. Here’s our rundown of some of the best on the market.

The fine-structure constant is a seemingly random number with no units or dimensions, which has cropped up in so many places in physics, and seems to control one of the most fundamental interactions in the universe.

Paramount Plus will finally debut their ambitious new "Halo" series today based on the iconic video game franchise from Microsoft/Bungie.

Paramount’s take on the Chief is finally due to hit select streaming services next week – as a primer, here’s everything we know about the Halo TV series.

Astronomers imaged a weird circle in space in high-definition for the first time as they try to find out how these mysterious structures form.

A circular shape on the seafloor visible on Google Earth is raising cries of "UFO," but chances are … it's not aliens.

SpaceX's next new spacecraft to carry astronauts now shares a name with the first capsule to fly an American into space. Crew Dragon "Freedom" will make its debut with the launch of SpaceX's Crew-4.

The dino-killing asteroid lofted huge amounts of sulfur into Earth's atmosphere 66 million years ago, leading to rapid climate change.

Multiple private spacecraft will be ferrying NASA astronauts to the surface of the moon just a few years from now, if all goes according to plan.

The uncrewed Artemis 1 round-the-moon mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than May.

Astronauts Raja Chari and Matthias Maurer finished several maintenance tasks on a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station

Astronomers in the future might not be allowed to build large complex power-hungry observatories if they want to reduce their carbon footprint in line with greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.

Space lettuce could help astronauts maintain good bone health on long trips, a new study suggests.

NASA will provide an update on its Artemis moon lander plan and you'll be able to listen to it live online.

SpaceX's Crew-4 mission will launch toward the International Space Station on April 19. And the mission's Dragon capsule just got a name: Freedom.

SpaceX just raised prices for its launch and Starlink internet services, citing the inflationary pinch that the rest of us are feeling as well.

The Bohr model is a neat but quite imperfect depiction of the inner workings of an atom before things got too muddled up by quantum principles.

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The double-slit experiment was designed to investigate whether light is a wave or a particle. It is one of the most famous and weirdest experiments in physics.

Five paying customers and one of Blue Origin's first 20 employees are scheduled to fly to suborbital space aboard the company's New Shepard vehicle on March 29.