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China launched a new radar remote sensing satellite for environmental monitoring on Tuesday (Aug. 8).

The Perseid meteor shower peaks on the evening of Aug. 12 and before dawn on Aug. 13. The prolific shower is not one to be missed.

Apple TV+ delivers a crazy trailer for its new adult animation series, "Strange Planet."

A new kind of particle in wildfire smoke has shown to have the potential to warm the planet far more than previously thought, underscoring the need to update current climate models.

SpaceX will launch 22 of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (Aug. 10), and you can watch the action live.

The fight between Vader and Skywalker has never looked so good.

Virgin Galactic flew its second-ever commercial mission today (Aug. 10), a flight that made history in multiple ways.

NASA plans on testing an innovative new way to communicate with deep space probes, and step one depends on the success of the Psyche mission.

Sony's updated 'holy trinity' standard zoom has improved on what was already a fantastic lens, making it a must-buy for any Sony photographer.

Mild solar storms can cause more serious problems to GPS satellites than once-in-a-century events, a new study has found.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured a stunning video of the Ingenuity helicopter on Aug. 3, during the little chopper's 54th Red Planet flight.

An incredible time-lapse video tracks the 17-year journey of a distant and massive exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b, around its parent star between 2003 and 2020.

Russia plans to launch its first moon mission in nearly half a century today (Aug. 10), and you can watch the historic liftoff live.

Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev completed the first test flight at the end of the European robotic arm as part of a successful spacewalk at the International Space Station on Wednesday (Aug. 9).

Virgin Galactic's reusable spaceplane, VSS Unity, will launch its second commercial spaceflight mission on Thursday (Aug. 10). Here's how to follow the action.

A new technology uses satellite data to provide farming advice to Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani farmers.

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have begun getting the goods on Earendel, the most distant star ever detected.

Cool stars with powerful magnetic fields could have remarkably fast stellar winds that strip away their planets' atmospheres, making even "habitable zone" worlds less friendly to life.

The heat shield for the Orion spacecraft is the only serious concern on NASA's Artemis 2 to-do list right now. But the Artemis 3 moon-landing mission has more open questions.

Radio data has also allowed planetary scientists to measure Mars’ rotation rate and learn more about the world's over-sized, molten core.

Sir Brian May and NASA's OSIRIS-REx chief scientist Dante Lauretta challenge Space.com readers to photograph solar system objects to win a signed copy of their new book about asteroid Bennu.