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Alien spaceships swarmed over the Fortnite island during the season finale of the battle royale game Saturday (Dec. 4).

So much happens in Star Trek: Discovery's season 4 episode "Choose To Live" that it can be overwhelming.

The goal is to speed up solar system communications.

The only total solar eclipse of 2021 was only visible across a remote stretch of Antarctica. See photos of what scientists saw.

The Kardashev scale classifies hypothetical alien civilizations by how much energy they use.

Black holes are mysterious objects of extreme density, with such strong gravitational attraction that even light cannot escape from their grasp if it comes near enough.

The only total solar eclipse of 2021 took place under especially isolated circumstances today, sweeping over sparsely populated Antarctica in a dazzling sight.

The two-stage Atlas V is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 4:04 a.m. EDT (0904 GMT) on Sunday, carrying a mix of payloads for the U.S. Space Force. Watch it live here.

The picture book paints Edwin Hubble's biography in a way that teaches and entertains.

SpaceX has started building a pad for its Starship Mars rocket at Launch Complex 39A, part of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Elon Musk announced on Friday (Dec. 3).

The big problem might not be time zone, but accessibility of the prime Antarctic site.

The Milky Way is our galactic home, but studying it has been notoriously difficult. Thanks to the European Gaia mission, astronomers are finally unravelling the galaxy's fascinating evolution.

A tiny galaxy orbiting at the outskirts of the Milky Way appears to have a giant black hole at its center, comparable to that of the much larger Milky Way itself, and scientists don't know why.

Early Saturday morning, a total solar eclipse will darken skies at the bottom of the world.

The International Space Station dodged a fragment of a decades-old rocket body early Friday morning, continuing a stretch of space debris threats to the orbiting laboratory.

Giving aliens directions to Earth might be tricky, but scientists have some ideas for how to do it.

Before NASA deploys its Artemis Gateway in orbit around the moon, the agency will launch a different, but related "Gateway" at its Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

Three companies snagged a total of $415 million to develop their private space station designs.

What would humanity do if a giant space rock were hurtling directly towards Earth? According to director Adam McKay ("The Big Short," "Anchorman," "Step Brothers"), we might not even care.

There were 48 Starlink satellites on board, plus two Earth observation satellites for BlackSky Global.

Antarctica will see nearly two minutes of totality at most, with surrounding regions getting a partial view.