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Being a fan of "Strange New Worlds" at the moment feels a little like being at the end of long piece of emotional elastic

Scientists have mapped the fiery descent of the Aeolus spacecraft back to Earth from its reentry over Antarctica to its wrekage strewn path over the Atlantic.

The world's largest single-dish radio telescope can be a pain to maintain, so Chinese astronomers are using smart robots to make the job easier.

Mission scientists and engineers took on the tricky task of targeting a remote stretch of the Atlantic Ocean for the reentry of Europe's Aeolus satellite.

Artemis 2's moon astronauts will need a big team of people to bring them home after arriving on Earth. The ambitious goal: To bring the astronauts from spacecraft to med bay in 2 hours.

India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander has returned images from the moon after entering orbit around our nearest neighbor.

USB-C charging, a red LED, simple operation and a reflective headband make this affordable headlamp a great choice for skywatchers.

NASA announced the end of the LunaH-Map satellite that was supposed to map ice at the south pole of the moon. While the mission missed its mark, a key instrument performed well.

A new study uses terrestrial and Martian data to investigate how river paths change depending on environmental conditions.

Chinese launch company Galactic Energy announced in late July that it used a small test vehicle propelled by a jet engine to test software for landing rockets.

The moon and Jupiter will be just under the feet of Aires the Ram, in the night sky on the evening of Monday, Aug. 7. With the right binoculars, you could see five moons at once.

The modern scientific fields of astronomy and physics stretch back for centuries, and so naturally they've accumulated a lot of interesting names for objects, ideas, and phenomena.

SpaceX fired up its huge new Starship Super Heavy booster today (Aug. 6), notching an important milestone on the path to flight.

Meet the 'bubbletrons' — theoretical particle accelerators that may have helped build the universe as we know it.

NASA has announced the new "NASA+" streaming service which will offer free event content and videos when it launches sometime later in 2023.

SpaceX will launch 22 more of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (Aug. 6), and you can watch the action live.

Using a 24/7 observatory that can detect when charged particles interact with water, scientists identified record-breaking rays coming from the sun.

To find out what is beyond space, a good place to start would be to figure out where space – our universe – ends. The problem is we don't know where space ends, or even if it ends at all.

Military leaders around the world have expressed concerns over the dominance of SpaceX founder Elon Musk when it comes to satellite-based internet services.

China's moon rocket inches a step further in development, as the country test fires new rocket engine.

Albert Einstein once mentored fellow Holocaust survivor, Werner Salinger. Decades later, Salinger reminisces as Einstein's galactic theories come to light.