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"We have never seen anything quite like it."

The 1132-piece buildable replica with moving parts is 18% off as Lego's Technic Mars Rover Perseverance set is one of its lowest prices on Amazon.

The Perseid meteor shower 2025 peaked Aug. 12-13, delighting skywatchers worldwide.

To celebrate Alien: Earth landing on Hulu, we asked a zoologist if any of the Xenomorph's infamous characteristics occur in the natural world

The company is also looking at using its mothership aircraft that releases spacecraft at high altitude as a carrier platform for other customers.

With just one year until the total solar eclipse of 2026, we take a look at everything you need to know for the ultimate eclipse adventure.

Marine protected areas cover more than 8% of the world's oceans today, but they can get a bad rap as being protected on paper only.

The annual Perseid meteor shower will peak overnight Tuesday (Aug. 12), and you can enjoy the event live online with the Virtual Telescope Project's webcast.

Alien: Earth's two-episode premiere is released today and you can watch it anywhere with our exclusive 79% off NordVPN deal, but you'll have to hurry.

Europe's Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket will launch for the third time ever tonight (Aug. 12), and you can watch the action live.

A conceptual mission known as "Persephone" could explore Pluto and its moons for 50 years  — if it ever gets funded and approved.

United Launch Alliance is set to launch an experimental navigation satellite on the first national security mission of its new Vulcan Centaur rocket on Aug. 12. Watch it live here.

Test out your knowledge of these famous firsts in skywatching and astrophotography, from the first photos of Earth and the moon to the invention of telescopes!

The Tarantula nebula was recently captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, where the Scylla program helped create the colored image of this star-forming area.

Nicknamed 'Punctum,' this puzzling phenomenon is highly energetic, but is only seen in millimeter-wavelength light and cannot be explained by any known object.

'Alien: Earth' is the first-ever Alien TV show and it's finally arrived. Here's how to watch 'Alien: Earth' wherever you are on the planet.

Scotland-based Skyrora has received the first U.K.-issued vertical launch license for a homegrown company, enabling rocket launches from SaxaVord Spaceport in the Shetland Islands.

Our quiz will test your smarts of which planets go where in our solar system.

"This particular meteor that entered the atmosphere has a long history before it made it to the ground of McDonough".

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in the first billion years after the Big Bang, moving one step closer to understanding how early galaxies grow.

Before the Xenomorph crash-lands on streaming, we talked to five Alien: Earth cast members about the difficulties and fun of navigating the giant sci-fi show.