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Imagine a nightmare-induced, Indiana Jones-style, trap-avoiding treasure hunt.

A scholar of Octavia E. Butler explores how the writer envisioned the future in her work.

A New Zealand resident spotted a "bizarre but very cool" blue spiral above her house following a SpaceX launch on Sunday (June 19).

NASA officials are pleased with Artemis 1's performance during its recent "wet dress rehearsal" but need more time to determine its readiness for launch.

A sunspot nearly triple the size of Earth is within firing range of our planet and may send out medium-class flares in the near future.

Less than a month after "Apollo 13" opened, President Bill Clinton met with Jim Lovell to present one of the highest awards an astronaut can receive: the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

The discount is Amazon's lowest price on a top quality budget 3D printer.

It wasn't quite a five-year mission, but we've finally built the Playmobil USS Enterprise and it's everything we wanted and more.

Samantha Cristoforetti also plans to follow a 20-minute routine in microgravity in the near future.

NASA's InSight mission is working to squeeze out all the science it can as power runs out.

Look up! Venus will pass the Pleiades in the predawn sky on Thursday. The encounter will be visible with a pair of binoculars.

Here are the best night vision binoculars, monoculars and goggles you can use in the dark.

The world's lightest DSLR is packed full of features and is the perfect beginner camera.

Four retired telescope missions are helping astronomers uncover new insights about how dust behaves in galaxies.

Alien life in the deep global ocean of a water world could receive its nutrients through a shell of high-pressure ice around the planet's core.

A European rocket will launch two communications satellites to orbit Wednesday evening (June 22), and you can watch the action live.

The James Webb Space Telescope is ready to start probing the cosmos. An astronomer on the team explains what it takes to get to this stage.

While astronomical facilities and instrumentation may still be intact, it's too unsafe to verify in person right now.

The Nikon 10x50 Aculon A211 binoculars are sleek, well made and offer great value optics in a wide field of view.

The 4-meter-wide International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) at Devasthal Observatory in the central Himalayas comes online.

The moon approaches Mars in the predawn sky on Wednesday (June 22). The pair will be visible in the same field of view using a pair of binoculars.