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Veteran Chinese astronaut Chen Dong will command a crew that includes rookies Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie.

The New York Stock Exchange celebrated the launch of NASA's newest astrophysics observatory by having the probe's team ring the closing bell.

As construction continues on ESO's Extremely Large Telescope, the observatory shared some stunning photos of the site as the telescope reached its highest point.

SpaceX continues to keep up its torrid launch pace, sending three missions to orbit from three different pads over the course of a day and a half.

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The Lyrids 2025 did not disappoint, and we've got the photos to prove it!

Budget cuts hitting U.S. government agencies like NASA don't seem promising for the Hubble Space Telescope, but there is still hope.

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured a colorful portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy from the Dark Sky Alqueva Observatory in Cumeada, Portugal.

A massive clump of dark matter in the Perseus galaxy cluster is linked to its core by a bridge of dark matter, evidence of a history of mergers.

Spacewalking astronauts repaired and upgraded the famed Hubble Telescope during five missions from 1993 to 2009. Here's a summary of these epic servicing efforts.

Check out this fun way to embrace Earth Day and NASA's 60 years of planetary observation.

A new microscope just arrived at the International Space Station to help study life's adaptability under extreme conditions using an innovative imaging technique.

Scientists have long known that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, hosts rivers and seas of liquid methane. But it's strangely lacking in river deltas, a new study suggests.

NASA engineers tested the functionality of Orion's forward bay cover, which is the last component of the spacecraft that must be ejected before parachutes deploy to land.

The next Fortnite x Star Wars collaboration will bring new content to Epic Games' hit online multiplayer game, including starfighters, Darth Jar Jar, and a new live event.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive black hole in a distant spiral galaxy.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently journeying toward Jupiter's orbit on its asteroid-hopping mission, captured an impressive close-up of its second target: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson.

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our home system.

Skywatchers, get ready! The Lyrid meteor shower is set to peak, offering a spectacular sight for anyone willing to stay up late or rise early.

'We've all done bad things': Yelena, aka White Widow, bares her soul in final trailer for Marvel's 'Thunderbolts' ahead of the May 2 release.

The U.S. Space Force now has an official "Space Warfighting" doctrine outlining how the service can train and prepare units for a war fought in space.