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China has revealed that four international experiments will fly on its historic Chang'e 6 sample-return mission to the far side of the moon in 2025.

The moon will be at new moon phase on Dec. 23 when the Ursid meteor shower reaches its peak, meaning it won't provide any hindrance at all for meteor watching.

New research shows that even smaller impacts can warm and soften enough ice on Jupiter's moon Europa to send material sinking into the underlying ocean.

NASA's IXPE space telescope observed a neutron star with a powerful magnetic field in X-rays for the first time, finding polarization and a likely solid crust.

This photo from NASA's InSight lander on Mars just may be its last as the power-starved lander approaches the end of its life on the Red Planet.

We have absolutely no evidence for any extraterrestrial civilization, let alone life. This is Fermi's great paradox: If life can happen, it should be common, and if it's common, we should already know about it. But we don't.

An inspection of the leaky Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked to the International Space Station has revealed a small hole, though it's unclear if it was caused by a micrometeoroid strike.

A commitment to diversity honoring "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry will soon blast off to the final frontier.

Lockheed Martin has been blowing up its in-development inflatable space habitat in more ways than one.

Something odd is happening in Jupiter's atmosphere, a new study has revealed.

An intense drought that has persisted on Earth for over two decades is now thought to have affected gravity wave activity where our planet's atmosphere meets outer space

James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water" is technically brilliant and visually stunning, but it's overlong and riddled with cliches.

North Korea launched a rocket to test ground stations ahead of a planned spy satellite launch into orbit by April 2023, according to the nation's state-run media.

The Russian space agency has not yet disclosed a cause for the leak that sprung on a Soyuz spacecraft Thursday (Dec. 15), although a state agency speculated it might be a meteor.

The Fujifilm X-T5 is by no means an astrophotography specialist, but it does perform well in low light and is a great all-rounder.

Ancient Mexicans closely watching the sun from only a single location accurately tracked the seasons and operated a farming calendar that fed millions.

As we return to Pandora in theaters, we learn a bit more about the distinct creatures, old and new, that roam the gorgeous locations of the Avatar movies.

Ancient mammals were better adapted than nonavian dinosaurs to survive the Chicxulub asteroid impact.

Tidal interactions are pulling the exoplanet toward its demise: a fiery collision with its star.

A rocky meteoroid that exploded over Canada last year was more extraordinary than it first seemed: it originated from the outer solar system, where scientists thought only icy bodies exist.

A Marsquake detected by NASA's InSight lander in May this year was at least five times larger than the next largest seismic event recorded on the planet.