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On Aug. 9, Maxar Technologies' WorldView-3 satellite snapped a great shot of SpaceX's "Starbase" facility, where the company is building and testing its Starship deep-space transportation system.

NASA and Star Trek are teaming up to celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry today in a webcast event.

The solar system's largest planet reaches opposition today (Aug. 19).

Arianespace will launch dozens of internet satellites for the communications company OneWeb today (Aug. 19), and you can watch the liftoff live.

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Blue Origin is targeting Aug. 25 for the next flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle, company representatives announced today (Aug. 18).

Lego Education has unveiled Spike Essentials as part of its Lego learning system to help teachers and encourage students in STEAM subjects.

Wildfires in Siberia have produced 800 megatons of carbon dioxide since the beginning of June, nearly doubling last year's record, according to estimates.

You can guide Mono on his journey with 38% off.

The speed of light puts a speed limit on matter, lets us peer back into the history of our universe, and has deep implications for physics and space travel.

SpaceX's Starlink satellites are involved in about 1,600 close encounters between two spacecraft in low Earth orbit every week, according to available data. That’s about 50% of all such incidents.

We usually associate the term Blue Moon with a month containing two full moons. That won't happen in August, yet this month brings a Blue Moon nonetheless.

Chinese astronomers hope to establish a major observatory program on the roof of the world, the Tibetan Plateau, with new research arguing for pristine observing conditions nestled in the uplands.

A Houston-based company that NASA selected to ferry upcoming lunar experiments to the moon has hired SpaceX to launch its lunar landing mission.

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JPL says the gap looks like 'a splinter poking out from a plank of wood'

The first full-size prototype of SpaceX's Starship vehicle should be ready to launch on an orbital test flight "in a few weeks," company founder and CEO Elon Musk said via Twitter on Saturday (Aug. 14).

A tiny cubesat called AuroraSat-1 will launch atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster in the fourth quarter of this year to demonstrate de-orbiting tech for small spacecraft.

By studying rocks on Earth, researchers suggest that their Martian counterparts could also have water trapped within them.

Beloved "Star Trek" actress Nichelle Nichols is caught in the middle of a conservatorship battle as she fights her own battle with dementia.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity made its 12th Red Planet flight on Monday (Aug. 16), during which the little chopper served as eyes in the sky for its larger companion, the Perseverance rover.