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You won't arrive at your destination for several hours after beginning Deliver Us Mars, but the world-building makes it worth the wait.

The moon will be completely dark tonight as it enters the new moon phase of its 29.5-day cycle.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a dazzling new view of two tempestuous young stars in the nearby Orion Nebula.

Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope were able to see a supermassive blackhole powering a super bright quasar at the heart of a distant galaxy.

An interview with showrunner, writer, and director Dean Devlin on his new sci-fi series, "The Ark"

China plans to launch a pair of crewed missions to its new space station this year, with supplies also heading to orbit on a Tianzhou cargo ship.

NASA's NuSTAR telescope has spotted patches of high-energy X-rays radiation across the sun's surface that could explain why the star's atmosphere is mysteriously hot.

The first long-duration astronaut from the United Arab Emirates will be among four crew members flying to the International Space Station on Feb. 26.

Thousands of satellites and millions of out-of-control space debris fragments hurtle high above our heads, threatening to collide. Here are the objects that experts fear the most.

The "China Compound Eye" radar array aims to track and characterize potentially threatening deep-space objects.

Kilonova explosions created when neutron stars collide and merge are perfectly spherical, not flattened discs as previously expected, a new study suggests.

The four largest moons of Jupiter - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto - have newly discovered auroras that can be seen in visible light.

A robotic Russian cargo ship stricken by a coolant leak undocked from the International Space Station late Friday (Feb.17) while cosmonauts snapped photos of it looking for signs of damage.

Leonardo da Vinci's centuries-old sketches reveal he may have understood key aspects of gravity long before Galileo, Newton and Einstein.

One of the instruments on NASA's Parker Solar Probe powered down unexpectedly last weekend, but the mission team expects it to come back online soon.

A massive solar flare erupted from the sun on Friday (Feb. 17) as the Earth was under a geomagnetic storm watch from flares earlier in the week.

The comet C/2022 A2 (Pan-STARRS) will pass close by the sun on Sunday (Feb. 19), making its first and likely final approach to our star.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has accomplished a great deal during its first two years on the Red Planet, and the mission team has big plans for the future as well.

Actress Raquel Welch passed away at the age of 82 after a long and illustrious career that includes science fiction classics such as "Fantastic Voyage" and "One Million Years B.C."

A stream of solar plasma arrived at Earth last night, triggering rare red aurora displays across Canada, northern U.S. and Europe. And more is on its way.

The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting in unexpected ways that could lead to its rapid collapse, a new study has revealed.