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Scientists have demonstrated that beamed microwaves can be converted to electricity to power drones.

Arianespace launched dozens of internet satellites for the communications company OneWeb this evening (Aug. 21).

Watch Space.com's video of every SpaceX Starship explosion and see what Elon Musk and team learned from them.

Step outside around 45 minutes after sunset on Saturday evening (Aug. 21) and in a single glance you'll be able to partake in a gathering of the moon and the biggest planet of our solar system.

Permanent flooding has become commonplace on this low-lying peninsula, nestled behind North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The trees growing in the water are small and stunted.

Sweden's highest mountain has shrunk by two meters in one year due to the melting of the glacier that covers it.

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket is one step closer to spaceflight.

Netflix's first trailer for a documentary series on SpaceX's Inspiration4 private astronaut mission is here. Check it out.

The next SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to visit the International Space Station will launch next Saturday (Aug. 28), and if you're an early-bird you can watch it all online.

Scientists have calculated that Earth is 4.54 billion years old, with an error range of 50 million years.

NASA's Perseverance rover has given us an otherworldly skywatching treat — the minuscule Mars moon Deimos, twinkling in the dusty Red Planet skies.

Chinese astronauts conducted their second spacewalk outside of the country's new space station on Friday, installing a range of equipment including a back-up air-conditioning unit.

Billionaire Jared Isaacman is looking for a brewery to make beer with space-flown hops — for a good cause.

Asteroids are packed with gold and other valuable resources. And the best way to harvest those metals may be to bring space rocks to Earth.

As an asteroid, Phaethon is a ball composed mainly of rock, and it shouldn't have enough water ice to form the glowing fuzzy coma and tail that adorn a comet.

The full moon of August arrives Sunday (Aug. 22), after it makes a close pass to Jupiter and Saturn.

NASA must again stop work on its human moon lander partnership with SpaceX due to a Blue Origin lawsuit, further risking the agency's tight timeline to return astronauts to the moon.

China's Zhurong rover has completed its primary three-month-long expedition on Mars but is set to continue exploring the Red Planet.

NASA has awarded a total of $500,000 to 13 different teams via its Break the Ice Lunar Challenge, a competition designed to nurture the development of moon-mining tech.

The most detailed radio images of galaxies outside the Milky Way have been captured by a network of 70,000 radio antennas spread over nine European countries.

2021 is "virtually certain" to be one of the top 10 hottest years on record, and "fire clouds," could become a summer staple, scientists revealed in a monthly briefing today (Aug. 19).