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Rise and shine! Venus, Aldebaran and the moon team up for a dazzling dawn display.

Baumgartner is most well-known for breaking the sound barrier with his body during a freefall from the stratosphere in 2012.

A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and reshaped the Colorado River that runs through the national park.

The Expedition 73 and Axiom Mission 4 crews wrapped up their time together as science and maintenance activities continued aboard the International Space Station.

"The mountaineer defies gravity; the astronomer looks up. Both seek to reach the unreachable."

'I'm trying to make it as realistic as possible, so that a modern day Scottish person could see themselves in space one day.'

The Southern Delta Aquariids are active alongside the trusty Perseid meteor shower.

Two teams of astronomers have simultaneously discovered a strange, spinning dead star that seems to defy our current understanding of both neutron stars and white dwarfs.

A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates.

Dr Korby once crossed paths with Kirk's Enterprise, though he was a very different man at the time…

Soil excavated from the moon could be used to produce oxygen and methane, which could be used by lunar settlers for breathing and for rocket fuel.

Superman is full of awesome sci-fi elements, but the most fascinating one might be Lex Luthor's pocket dimension. How does that even work?

Up to 200 worlds investigated by NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite could be bigger than predicted, a finding that could impact our search for alien life.

'It's fun to see Una come down on someone. We don't get to see that very often.'

China's Tianwen 2 mission captured stunning views of Earth and the moon from deep space just days after launch.

All of the telescopes here are easy to set up on a tabletop, making them an easy option for beginners and professional stargazers.

Titan shadow transit seasons occurs just once every 15 years.

The basaltic meteorite is a piece of lunar rock that formed in a lava flow 2.35 billion years ago, long after volcanism on the moon was supposed to have ended.

The European Space Agency is funding the development of a hypersonic space plane pathfinder, which will start flying by 2031, if all goes according to plan.

China has taken a new step in its long-term planning for lunar exploration with the completion of a "simulated moon underground space."

NASA and Boeing are still working on the thruster issues that Starliner experienced on its first crewed flight last year, and the spacecraft's next mission will likely launch without astronauts.