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A small galaxy is bursting with star formation in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Telescope.

This impressive Lego Star Wars ship packs in plenty of detail without breaking the bank.

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory just hit a milestone with its 5,000th comet detection.

Earlier this month, a sudden atmospheric warming event caused the Arctic's polar vortex to reverse its trajectory. The swirling ring of cold air is now spinning in the wrong direction, which has triggered a record-breaking "ozone spike" and could impact global weather patterns.

Varda Space has written up the results of its groundbreaking W-1 mission, which successfully crystalized the metastable Form III of the antiviral drug ritonavir in space and returned it to Earth.

SunChips is releasing a special solar eclipse-themed flavor during the April 8 solar eclipse, but the chips will only be available while totality passes through the United States.

Curious about NASA’s other famous rover? Then check out our Lego NASA Mars Rover Perseverance review.

SpaceX is set to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit tonight (March 28), on the company's 30th orbital mission of 2024 already.

Lego has launched a new solar eclipse education collection featuring special activities to engage students in the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8.

The SLIM spacecraft, Japan's first successful moon lander, has survived its second long, cold lunar night.

Satellite images taken daily for one year shows a stunning glimpse of what the change of seasons looked like from space.

An asteroid that slammed into Mars around 2.3 million years ago left one nine-mile wide crater and created 2 billion smaller craters.

ULA scrubbed the last planned liftoff of its Delta Heavy IV rocket today (March 28) late in the countdown clock. The powerful launcher is now scheduled to fly on March 29.

Some of the building blocks of life are surprisingly stable in Venus-like conditions, according to a new lab experiment.

A tiny grain of dust sealed within an ancient meteorite weaves together the story of the solar system's creation and reveals a much older tale of a rare star's explosive supernova death.

A new Mars plane idea, affectionately called MAGGIE, received early-stage NASA funding for a project starting in May. Its goal is to one day hunt for methane while soaring above the planet.

Astronomers have for the first time imaged the powerful magnetic fields that dwell around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*.

Reporters toured NASA's Johnson Space Center last week, getting a look at the rooms from which the first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner will be controlled. And we got to watch a SpaceX launch, too.

Using the MeerKat radio telescope, astronomers discovered a "gold rush" of galaxies in just three hours, including three joined by their gas content.

The final season 1 episode of "Constellation" lacks satisfying answers and instead doubles down on shock value without clear goals.

Humanity's activities and climate change are impacting the polar ice sheets, causing excessive melting, and this is slowing Earth's rotation, challenging official timekeeping standards.