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On Sunday (April 17), skywatching cameras in Ontario recorded a massive fireball that likely produced tens to hundreds of grams of meteorites.

The pioneering Ax-1 mission has left the International Space Station and is headed back to Earth.

Scientists restarted the Large Hadron Collider on April 22 to hunt for dark matter and fringe physics.

Giant Jupiter and the shadow of its biggest moon, Ganymede, dominate the view in a newly shared image based on a NASA spacecraft data.

The modern-day space race has led to thousands of satellites scattered through Earth's outer orbits that could push dark skies to extinction.

India's space agency is proceeding very cautiously after the hard landing of its previous lunar lander in 2019.

As the early universe cooled shortly after the Big Bang, bubbles formed in its hot plasma, triggering gravitational waves that could be detectable even today, a new study suggests.

NASA and SpaceX delayed the undocking of private Ax-1 astronauts from the International Space Station by another day due to bad weather.

On this episode of This Week in Space, look at NASA's plans to land humans on the Red Planet from the Apollo era through today, SpaceX, too.

See the best photos on Space.com this week.

Scientists see new 'micronova' stellar explosion, Ukrainian moon startup repurposes tech for military use, and Perseverance Mars rover arrives at ancient river delta.

The nova system RS Ophiuchi produced extremely high-energy gamma-rays in its most recent explosion, according to observations by the dual MAGIC telescopes in Spain's Canary Islands.

The U.S. government's UFO program, AATIP, was funding secret research into invisibility, wormholes, and antigravity, newly released documents reveal.

Fast blue optical transients are ultrahot, ultrafast and difficult to explain.

The first-ever all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is about to head for home, and you can watch the departure live.

Astronomer Jay Pasachoff will talk about his December 2021 eclipse-chasing expedition to Antarctica tomorrow (April 23) at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT).

Imagine a home on Mars. Is it filled with bacteria?

Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder speaks with NASA and ESA astronauts aboard the International Space Station for Earth Day.

SpaceX just secured its first deal to provide inflight internet service on airplanes using its Starlink constellation of broadband satellites.

It will be visible across parts of Antarctica, the southern tip of South America, and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

Guitar legend Joe Satriani is well known for his sci-fi thematics and his "Crystal Planet" comic, and his new record, "The Elephants of Mars," continues the trend.