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The genetic tree of life suggests that the first life on Earth may have lived underwater, shielded from harmful ultraviolet light from the sun.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have potentially smashed the galaxy redshift record by finding galaxies that existed 200 to 300 million years after the Big Bang.

The Orion Nebula's bluish gas shell appears to be leaking dust and gas from a protrusion discovered by NASA's flying telescope SOFIA.

The stamp commemorates the start of the telescope's science mission and depicts the telescope's iconic golden honeycomb mirror and its large sunshields in space.

Russia's departure from the International Space Station program isn't exactly imminent, it would seem.

A bright fireball exploded over Texas on Sunday night (July 24), waking up hundreds of residents with a sonic boom, which suggests parts of the rock may have reached Earth.

Powerful storms around the North Pole of Jupiter swirl in mesmerizing images captured by NASA's Juno probe during its close approach to the giant planet on July 5.

China guided its Tianzhou 3 cargo spacecraft to a fiery death in Earth's atmosphere late Tuesday night (July 26).

The experimental Airbus Zephyr drone has been airborne for over 42 straight days, setting a new record for an uncrewed flight.

Intense blasts of radiation called gamma-ray bursts originate from neutron star mergers in distant galaxies, but until now the origins of some of these eruptions couldn't be pinpointed.

Marvel Studios delivers a sneak peek at Disney's new "I Am Groot" series during their San Diego Comic-Con panel.

The VR headsets are rising in price to $399.99 for the 128GB model and $499.99 for the 256GB model.

The redesigned NASA-European campaign will task the Perseverance rover with delivering Red Planet samples to a rocket, with the drones as backup retrieval options.

A new technique could help astronomers detect exoplanets that orbit exotic binary star systems called cataclysmic variables.

NASA photos show the agency's all-electric "Crew Transportation Vehicle" to drive Artemis astronauts to the launch pad.

Make ten men feel like a hundred as we run down everything we know about Andor, the Star Wars prequel to Rogue One.

SpaceX is fighting against a possible regulatory change, saying it could cripple the company's Starlink satellite-internet business.

The space broadband business is getting a new direction as OneWeb and Eutelsat agree to a merger plan, which requires approvals to proceed.

A concentrated clump of a rare mineral was discovered in the Gale crater in 2016 by the Curiosity rover. Now, researchers may finally know how it got there.

The origins of high-energy particles that bombard the Earth from deep space may have been revealed for the first time by new research.

Space Perspective's balloon-borne capsule won't have the gumdrop shape we typically associate with that aerospace term.