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A space station on the moon could be very useful to provide future space missions with a stopping point between Earth and deeper space. Why haven't we built one yet?

Of the ten biggest annual meteor showers, just two could produce over 100 per hour: the December Geminids and the January Quadrantids, due to peak this Monday (Jan. 3).

If all goes according to plan, the James Webb Space Telescope, launched on Christmas Day 2021 after years of delays, will usher in a new era of astronomy.

To celebrate the new year, consider taking a day to rest.

Here are some of the more noteworthy sky events that will take place this upcoming year.

The astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station are marking the New Year, becoming only the 37th crew in history to be in space as Earth begins another revolution around the Sun.

The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope unfolded its huge sunshield on Friday (Dec. 31), pulling the five-layer structure out by sequentially deploying two booms.

The Biden-Harris administration has committed to extending International Space Station operations through 2030 and directed NASA to work with its international partners to continue use of the outpost.

The closer we look at the universe, the more beautiful and baffling it becomes. Here are the 10 most epic space structures discovered in 2021.

In-flight education downlinks are chances for students to interact with astronauts on the International Space Station. Here are the nine most memorable downlink moments of 2021, as ranked by NASA.

Lego Star Wars helmet building sets that feature Scout Trooper and Darth Vader headgear are currently on sale.

During this very eventful year, two nations joined the Mars club, a robot plied Red Planet skies for the first time ever and humanity kicked off an ambitious interplanetary sample-return campaign.

From landing on Mars to launching private citizens into space, and everything in between, this year has seen many historic milestones and giant leaps.

The holiday season may be almost over, but Star Wars streaming has just begun!

The Standard Model explains the physics of how the world works. But in 2021, physicists started probing fundamental gaps in this long-established concept.

A bombshell UFO report, the "alien junk" in our solar system, and more new clues about extraterrestrial life.

These are some of the top exoplanet discoveries made in 2021.

Star Trek: Discovery's season 4 episode 7 sets up a mid-season cliffhanger that we'll have to wait six weeks to find out what happened.

A new pre-print study claims to have quantum entangled a tardigrade with two superconductor qubits, though experts are skeptical.

Theories based only on real numbers are incapable of explaining the results of this new experiment.

The lessons learned from these incidents will inform future rocket launches.