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The nearly full moon will likely spoil views of the Perseids this year. Here are six minor meteor showers that might give you the chance to spot "shooting stars."

Pioneering new telescope surveys that use only the 10 minutes before sunrise and after sunset are searching for eccentric asteroids. They're finding some strange things.

The deadline for a month of free access the home of all things Star Trek has been extended until July 27.

A Russian cosmonaut and an Italian astronaut worked outside the International Space Station Thursday (July 21), marking the first time in almost a quarter century that a European took part in a Russian spacewalk.

Astronomers have detected a new triple star system that is unlike any similar system seen before. Computer simulations revealed that the strange system likely used to contain a fourth star.

Liftoff is scheduled for 1:39 p.m. EDT (1739 GMT), after launch was scrubbed Thursday (July 21) at T-46 seconds.

A fresh image based on brand-new deep-space data appears to show a wormhole spinning before our very eyes.

Valles Marineris, the Grand Canyon of Mars, is ripe for human exploration that can uncover the planet's history and its capacity to sustain microbial life.

SpaceX's next Dragon passengers will need to wait a little longer to get off the ground.

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have new details to share on how they will bring pieces of Mars to Earth, and they'll share their plans next week.

Writer/director David A. Weiner presents another plunge into the past in his new sci-fi movie salute to the '80s, "In Search of Tomorrow."

SpaceX aborted the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of the company's Starlink internet satellites just before liftoff on Thursday (July 21).

Find out what's going on at the International Space Station.

Astronomers have spotted two candidates for the most distant galaxies ever, thanks to the power of a massive gravitational lens.

The Department of Defense has created a new office to track unidentified objects in space and air, under water, or that appear to travel between these domains.

NASA's telescope-carrying jet has been damaged in a storm in Christchurch, New Zealand.

SpaceX will launch another batch of Starlink satellites aloft from California on July 21, and you can watch it live.

The inner solar system spins much more slowly than modern physics would expect, and a new study may help to explain why.

Early Friday morning the moon will be conveniently placed to guide you to Uranus. The pair will be close enough to share the same field of view in a pair of binoculars.

The Comedy Central host talks about how the new images from NASA's deep-space telescope blew his mind.

Watch Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti and Russia's Oleg Artemyev deploy nanosatellites and do maintenance work during their spacewalk Thursday (July 21).