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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity is getting set for its 11th off-Earth flight, which could happen early Thursday morning (Aug. 5).

Real estate mogul Donald Bren's donation could help seed an energy revolution.

Far-flung spacecraft are helping us learn about the solar system's edge.

The acclaimed creature performer reveals Captain Saru's inner workings on the Paramount Plus sci-fi series.

A veritable treasure trove of sci-fi is available at your fingertips.

Where should you go to get the best look at the dancing, dazzling display known as the aurora borealis?

From his perch on the International Space Station, a French astronaut watched a long-running Russian space module break into pieces in a shower of fireworks.

Perseid meteors are already beginning to fall in a display that promises to dazzle skywatchers this month.

On Aug. 4, 2008, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope began full science operations, scanning the entire sky through the highest-energy form of light.

Boeing needs more time to figure out a possible issue with the valves in Starliner's propulsion system.

"The Ascent," a new sci-fi action-shooter role-playing game (RPG) from game developer Neon Giant and publishers Curve digital, is now available.

The giant, 29-engine Super Heavy vehicle known as Booster 4 rolled out to its South Texas launch site today (Aug. 3) to begin testing ahead of a planned orbital trial.

Cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov gave a video tour of the new Russian "Nauka" module that docked at the International Space Station last week.

A weather satellite has recovered from a brief anomaly and is back to studying Earth and its ongoing wildfires.

The latest failure of a Chinese commercial rocket may point to growing pains as the country opens its space sector to more private participation, according to a news report.

Astronomers have imaged an extraordinary black hole picnic of cosmic proportions.

At 27 inches in length and 500 Galactic Credits ($350) in price, this would make the ultimate "Star Wars" shrine.

Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi will have to wait to launch ... again.

If Earth abruptly stopped spinning, what would happen to everything on it?

Astronauts are eager to see Boeing's Starliner spacecraft launch to space today (Aug. 3), despite issues with the capsule's previous uncrewed spaceflight.

One estimate suggests that 13 billion tons (12 metric tons) of ice made its way into the ocean on a single day.