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In "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," episode 3, Una Chin-Riley goes full Captain Kirk, plus it turns out that she's actually an Illyrian.

The eclipsed moon glows an eerie deep red color in a new photo of the total lunar eclipse that occurred earlier in May.

The little CAPSTONE spacecraft will have to wait a bit longer for its big lunar launch.

Mars' planet-engulfing dust storms are a consequence of a huge energy imbalance on the Red Planet.

Save over $20 on the epic space board game in an out-of-this-world deal just ahead of the Memorial Day celebrations.

The near-Earth asteroid 7335 (1989 JA) will make a close approach to our planet on May 27, 2022, flying within about 2.5 million miles of Earth.

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We now have an early glimpse of NASA's latest vision for its first crewed Mars mission.

For the first time, researchers have mapped elusive gas clouds that are believed to hold clues about galactic evolution and star formation in the early days of the universe.

Nations that don't have their own satellites rely on other countries, and those that want to develop their own satellite infrastructure are running out of options as space fills up.

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will wrap up its landmark mission with a touchdown in New Mexico on Wednesday evening (May 25), if all goes according to plan.

The United Nations Postal Administration is celebrating human achievement at the Red Planet with "Planet Mars," its latest release of postage stamps.

Boeing's Starliner capsule is scheduled to return to Earth on Wednesday (May 25), and teams on the ground have been gearing to welcome the spacecraft home.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, which is currently on its way to asteroids orbiting the sun at the same distance as Jupiter, watched the moon disappear during the total lunar eclipse on May 15.

China launched three new test communication satellites to low Earth orbit as the country looks to build its own version of SpaceX's Starlink broadband constellation.

The LHC's ALICE experiment detected a 'dead cone' in the aftermath of a proton-proton collision, paving the way for the direct measurement of the mass of a quark.

NASA will roll its Artemis 1 moon rocket back out to the launch pad early next month, if all goes according to plan.

Comets vs asteroids. They can end life as we know it or light up the sky with an impressive display of fire and ice. Looking into them is like peering into the history of our very own solar system, while some may even contain the answer to the origins of life itself.

We may have heard the last from China's Zhurong for a while, after the solar-powered Mars rover entered a dormant state due to winter's cold and local sand and dust storms.

Mars has almost no oxygen; it's only one-tenth of 1% of the air, not nearly enough for humans to survive.

Stars from colliding galaxies flow together in a newly upgraded image from NASA's venerable space telescope.