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HBO Max released a new trailer for "Dune: Prophecy" at New York Comic Con 2024, revealing the series to be just as epic as the films.

The Orionid meteor shower 2024 reaches its peak in the pre-dawn hours on Monday, Oct. 21, but this year a bright moon could make it difficult to see these shooting stars.

An astrophotographer who visited Easter Island for the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024, shared a stunning view of the "ring of fire."

The Hunter's Moon rose on Thursday (Oct. 17), becoming the biggest and brightest full moon of the year and wowing skywatchers around the globe with a spooky pre-Halloween show.

The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its close approach to Earth in 2029.

The parts for a 1972 full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city block closer to being reassembled and restored for display. The City of Downey, California began relocating "Inspiration."

Garbage is a growing problem for astronaut missions on the ISS. As NASA seeks to send people to the moon later this decade, Sierra Space is ready to test a trash compactor on the ISS in 2026.

Netflix released its first trailer for its upcoming big-budget sci-fi fantasy film, "The Electric State."

"Killer electrons" stashed in radiation belts around Earth could be dislodged by lightning to create a game of "cosmic pinball" that influences space weather around our planet.

A full decade later, Sega and Creative Assembly are returning to the Alien universe with Alien: Isolation 2.

Have you seen comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS yet? If you haven't yet seen the bright, icy space rock that's traveled from the edge of the solar system, it's not too late. But you need to see it soon.

The fifth and final season of "Star Trek: Lower Decks" is almost here, and Paramount+ has released a new trailer to get us ready for the final voyages of the U.S.S. Cerritos.

Join our whistlestop tour of the planets of 'Star Wars Outlaws,' Ubisoft's massive open-world adventure in a galaxy far, far away.

'Photosynthetic habitable zones' could exist beneath radiation-filtering ice on Mars, offering scientists another region in which to hunt for alien life.

From lunar water hunts to Mars sample returns, China's space program is embarking on groundbreaking missions across the solar system, aiming for the moon, Mars and beyond.

SpaceX's Starlink satellites now make up 40% of reentering satellite debris. But is Elon Musk's space company the worst polluter of Earth's upper atmosphere?

The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space.

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson will serve as co-pilot on tourism company Space Perspective's first crewed balloon flight, expected to occur in 2025.

Here's to an unforgettable decade in sci-fi movie innovation, our round-up of the best 90s sci-fi movies.

Europe has officially launched the Moonlight program, which aims to provide services for the more than 400 moon missions planned by space agencies and private companies over the next two decades.

NASA is still unsure when it will next put astronauts on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, which experienced issues during its first crewed test flight this summer.