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Mercury will reveal itself at pre-dawn tomorrow (June 16) when the planet reaches greatest western elongation. Here's how to see it.

V1674 Hercules is the fastest nova ever discovered, but new research reveals strange new details about this explosive event driven by a feeding white dwarf.

Astronomers have developed a new model for simulating how clusters of baby stars form and evolve, helping to explain how bubbles of ionized gas are created away from the heart of a galaxy.

This Lego Marvel playset might be on the simple side, but it’s packed full of fun details.

The launch of NASA's CAPSTONE moon mission has been pushed back again, this time to no earlier than June 25.

The moon floats just above Earth's life-giving atmosphere in a gorgeous photo snapped from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins.

It’s hammer time.

If this episode represents a slight drop before the end of season build-up begins, then we're fine with that.

Bethesda Game Studios has released the first gameplay video of its sci-fi magnum opus "Starfield."

Episode 2 of "The Orville" season 3 includes nods to "The Fly" and other sci-fi horror classics, with an epic music score.

IDW is releasing a companion comic book miniseries "Star Trek: Picard - Stargazer" to the Paramount Plus Trek TV series.

Paramount Plus delivers a new trailer for "Beavis And Butt-head Do The Universe" which launches on June 23.

The first orbital test flight of the giant Starship vehicle could happen soon, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said.

A new high-resolution map of the moon captures lunar geologic features in incredible detail.

On Sunday (June 12), the car-sized Perseverance Mars rover snapped a photo that could be mistaken for a still from an "Indiana Jones" movie.

NASA's Lucy mission team is continuing efforts to correct the incomplete deployment of one of the spacecraft's solar arrays as it continues to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

Milankovitch cycles are periodic changes in the orbital characteristics of a planet that control how much sunlight it receives thus affecting its climate and habitability.

'Obi-Wan Kenobi' channels 'The Mandalorian', 'A New Hope' and 'Jedi: Fallen Order' in what should have been its best episode yet.

France is the most recent signatory to the Artemis Accords, NASA's international agreement to establish best practices for ongoing cooperation on moon exploration.

At an event celebrating their past, the new inductees into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, David Leestma, Sandy Magnus and Chris Ferguson, looked to the future for the promise of space exploration.

The crew for the first mission in the privately funded Polaris program is scaling new heights to prepare for their record-breaking SpaceX flight later this year.