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For a few moments on April 6, the four Artemis 2 moon astronauts and the three crewmates aboard China's Tiangong space station were farther away from each other than any humans had ever been.

The Lyrids are back! Here's where to look and how to spot these shooting stars.

Capcom's new IP is a welcome throwback to simpler action games, but its story and themes are shockingly well-timed and refreshingly optimistic.

Scientists have used a synthetic universe to observe how the first galaxies evolved and grew. In fact, it is so close to the real thing that it's tricking some astronomers.

Watch the crescent moon cross the blue-white stars of the Pleiades on April 19 from the comfort of your home.

After months of quiet skies, the Lyrids return with fast, bright meteors and dark, moonless viewing conditions before dawn.

In space, no one can hear you ask for sun cream

Blue Origin, the space launch company founded by Jeff Bezos, achieved a successful recovery of its first reused orbital-class rocket, but the payload it put into space was left in the wrong location.

SpaceX will launch a new GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force early Tuesday morning (April 21), and you can watch the action live.

A remote Antarctic research team became the only people on Earth to witness a rare annular solar eclipse — and one scientist had to improvise to capture it.

Our universe is full of mysteries, but few are as perplexing as the dark, tiny galaxies that hover around larger ones like the Milky Way.

The Lyrid meteor shower peak is almost here, and we may be in store for spectacular fireballs and shooting stars.

Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS is days away from its close pass of the sun during an event known as perihelion.

Every single tiny point on the map is a galaxy.

Astroscale's 2027 ISSA-J mission will mark the first attempt to inspect multiple spacecraft across different orbits in a single flight.

The star is escaping the Large Magellanic Cloud for the Milky Way.

Fireballs and meteors could be seen anytime the constellation Lyra is above the horizon.

Blue Origin conducted a static fire test today (April 16) with a flight-proven New Glenn booster, paving the way for a planned launch on Sunday morning (April 19).

One of the game's more bizarre features is the ability to stab your way up to the edge of space.

Artemis 2's groundbreaking space toilet doesn't deserve the bad press it's gotten over the past two weeks, according to mission commander Reid Wiseman.

The Artemis 2 astronauts said they gained a deeper understanding of their Orion capsule during their moon mission —and what they learned bodes well for future Artemis flights.