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While the Nerf DinoSquad Rex-Rampage blaster looks the part, it’s far from the most reliable Nerf gun out there.

NASA's Perseverance rover will dump its latest Mars sample to unclog pebbles from its drill.

They're going to get a new docking module ready for spacecraft.

At least one livestream captured 1994 PC1 during its closest approach of the next 200 years.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivered 49 Starlink satellites to orbit today (Jan. 19) and pulled off a landing at sea.

The James Webb Space Telescope continues to uncurl its mirrors to ultimately peer into the deep and distant universe.

Tonga's volcanic eruption has left behind damage so severe that satellites can see it from space.

NASA's Curiosity rover has found some interesting organic compounds that may be signs of ancient Mars life, but much more work is needed to vet that hypothesis.

The universe was born with the Big Bang as an unimaginably hot, dense point. SPACE.com offers an overview of the universe and its history, age and structure.

Brace for impact, as we look at the best asteroid movies of all time.

How common are ice-covered planets like Hoth from "Star Wars," and might they be capable of hosting life? As usual, the answer is, it depends.

Metal 3D printing can produce the most intricate rocket parts, using combustion-resistant material

The volcanic eruption that destroyed a Polynesian island on Saturday injected ash into record altitude but won't cause any disruption to Earth's climate, experts said.

The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment would turn a massive swath of the Pacific Ocean into nature's own neutrino detector.

Three billion years ago, the dusty planet we know today was a very different world.

You can watch a nearly mile-wide asteroid make its closest Earth approach for the next 200 years today. Here's how.

Save up to £250 on some of the best VR headsets on the market right now.

A satellite image captured by Landsat 8 shows Mount Vesuvius "peering" through an eerily circular hole in the clouds.

Artificial satellites from Earth have only populated space since 1957, but there are now hundreds of thousands of objects from our planet in orbit.

Axiom Space plans to operate its own space station in low Earth orbit in the coming years, and it has inked deals with SpaceX to fly multiple tourist missions to the International Space Station.

Rocky surfaces and molten cores are what the four inner planets of the solar system have in common