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Physicist Stephen Hawking's clarion call to help Earth is now coming to kids in an illustrated book. Daughter Lucy Hawking collaborated on the project, too.

How long could a person survive if thrust into the harsh vacuum of outer space? The short answer is, not very long.

Step 337 in assembling Lego's NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Technic model is to you install your name — assuming you were one of the nearly 11 million people who signed up to fly on the real rover.

In 2021, a coronal mass ejection that erupted from the sun was seen across a staggering range of 155 million miles. It spit energetic particles toward Mars, the Earth and the moon.

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft had a communication breakdown with Earth, but it's still broadcasting signals to the agency's Deep Space Network antenna group.

The Perseid meteor shower, one of the most dependable annual showers, peaks on Aug. 12 and 13, and this year looks great for meteor watchers in North America.

Marvel Studios released a thrilling new trailer for "Loki" Season 2, revealing the series' time-hopping plot.

Thanks to a phenomenon predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, scientists have learned important new information about an incredibly massive galaxy cluster nearly 10 billion light-years from Earth.

Three new animated videos introduce gamers to the cultures and people of "Starfield," a massive new open-galaxy role-playing game from the minds behind "Fallout 4" and "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim."

A meandering plot, terrible graphics, and unremarkable aliens are the undoing of this indy space horror game.

Pseudoscience is a practice that, from the outside, looks like science, but upon closer inspection, is revealed to be nothing but. And what makes a practice look like science?

SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a communications satellite on Aug. 3 at 12:15 a.m. ET (0415 GMT), and you can watch it live.

SpaceX and NASA delayed the launch of the Crew-7 astronaut mission by five days to Aug. 23, to get the launch pad ready after a Falcon Heavy liftoff.

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the Milky Way's neighbor, NGC 6822, glowing green and gold while punctuated by bright red and blue stars, revealing its lack of metal.

With the completion of a comprehensive flight software test campaign, NASA engineers are "counting down the days" as the metal-rich-asteroid-bound Psyche probe nears its October launch date.

Take a look at these stunning Full Sturgeon Moon photographs from around the world. The first of two supermoons this month did not disappoint.

Trained on a neural network on 6,000 stars, the EAGLES algorithm will be used on surveys of millions more.

The moon is set for a close approach to the gas giant Saturn on Wednesday (Aug. 2) and again on Thursday (Aug. 3), at which time the two will also be in conjunction.

Hoping to combat our planet's rising temperatures, a scientist from the University of Hawaii explains a very futuristic way of shielding the Earth from sunlight.

The mystery of a huge piece of space debris that washed up on a beach in Western Australia may have been solved by the Australian Space Agency.

Amazon's new satellite processing facility in Florida brings the company's Project Kuiper closer to competing with SpaceX's Starlink, but it still has a way to go.