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Book your travel, buy your glasses, and get ready for the show of the decade on April 8, 2024

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completed its 24th Martian flight on Sunday (April 3), a short repositioning hop that covered 154 feet (47 meters) in 69.5 seconds.

Since astronomers began finding exoplanets in the 1990s, they've uncovered a lot of hot Jupiters, and now NASA's most venerable telescope is playing meteorologist.

SpaceX will launch a former NASA astronaut and three paying customers on a journey to the International Space Station. That mission, called Ax-1, lifts off today (April 8)!

The first all-private crewed mission to the International Space Station is ready to fly, mission leaders announced today (April 7).

First came the "Maggots." Then the "Bugs." Now the latest infestation to take over NASA's Astronaut Office has been identified. The 23rd group of astronaut candidates has their nickname, "The Flies."

In just one night of observing, scientists detected a new record-breaker, the most distant megamaser known to date.

"Return To Space" is a new Netflix documentary chronicling SpaceX's role in returning America to crewed spaceflight

Former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría is about to fly to orbit with three paying passengers — but the trio aren't "space tourists," the veteran spaceflyer stresses.

The public-private partnership is providing internet connectivity to Ukraine, whose cities have been besieged by Russian forces since February.

The Lyrids are a prominent meteor shower that peaks in April. The famous shower caused by Comet Thatcher has been observed for more than 2,700 years.

The Lyrid meteor shower 2022 will peak on the night of April 22, a typical shower displays between five and 20 meteors an hour at the peak.

The surface of asteroid Bennu acts like an impact-absorbing crumple zone that protects the space rock from forming craters, a new study based on OSIRIS-REx observations reveals.

It may be possible to build a real, traversable wormhole, but only if our universe has extra dimensions, a team of physicists has found.

This month, the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will make the first fully-private, crewed flight to the International Space Station. The going price for a seat is US$55 million.

Scientists discovered the mechanism that causes electrons to 'downpour' into Earth's atmosphere.

Abrams Books delivers another stellar "making of" edition with "The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian" Season 2

Researchers have spotted what might be the farthest astronomical object ever found — a galaxy candidate named HD1 that they estimate is 13.5 billion light-years away.

Around the world, astrophysicists are poring over the blips of gravitational waves that ripple through Earth when distant black holes or neutron stars collide. Most don't also attend high school.

The launch of Crew-4 had been scheduled for April 19. But it'll now lift off no earlier than April 20, and NASA and SpaceX are also considering the backup date of April 23.

Bjarni Tryggvason, one of Canada's original astronauts, has died at the age of 76. Selected by the National Research Council of Canada in 1983, Tryggvason launched with NASA's STS-85 crew in 1997.