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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) want to engineer a new kind of hovering spacecraft that can operate without air.

If you could journey through the cosmos' most monstrous objects, what tales — if any — would you be able to tell?

China welcomed the New Year with a live stream from cameras outside the new Tianhe space station module showing the beauty of the Earth below.

Comet Leonard is slipping out of view, but not without putting on one last show.

Scientists have just created the world's lightest form of magnesium — a never-before-seen isotope with just six neutrons in its atomic nuclei.

A meteor hurtling through Earth's atmosphere exploded over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on New Year's Day (Jan. 1).

The Webb team can now turn to the next big-ticket item on its list: getting the telescope's secondary and primary mirrors into the proper configuration. But it'll take a while to check those boxes.

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed all five layers of its tennis-court-sized sunshield.

As eyes turn to the deployment of a new space telescope, the Astronauts Memorial Foundation is shining light on the last astronauts' to visit one, offering Hubble coins with STS-125 crew autographs.

Plus dates of all the other sci-fi coming to the small screen in 2022

The sun is just a little bit closer in Earth's sky right now.

Scientists just collected the first measurements of violent eruptions in extremely dense magnetic stars called magnetars.

New research has road-tested a way to spot some of the most voracious black holes of all, making it easier to find them buried deep in the hearts of distant galaxies.

A new video of solar streamers evokes the streaking stars seen during spacecraft hyperdrives in "Star Wars."

On Monday (Jan. 3), James Webb Space Telescope controllers began tightening the tension on its massive sunshield.

Comet Leonard shines brightly in images captured by a small Chinese satellite on the backdrop of aurora and passing meteors.

Factory Entertainment honors Alice Krige's Borg Queen with a new $1,499 replica skull.

China's Tianwen 1 spacecraft at Mars has snapped with stunning images with a small camera that captured images of the orbiter above Mars.

The recently launched James Webb Telescope should help determine if dark matter is made up of primordial black holes.

Microbes released a toxic gas called hydrogen sulfide that subsequently prolonged the Permian extinction event 250 million years ago, according to a new study.

A detailed new image provides a great look at the Perseverance Mars rover's Red Planet home and shows why the mission team is so excited to explore it.