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Forget spending $1,000 on a UCS Death Star — the best Lego Star Wars sets are as cheap as $50.

Crew members of China's Shenzhou-20 mission recently detailed their reactions upon finding cracks in their spacecraft's viewport during the nation's first spaceflight emergency.

The March 2026 total lunar eclipse will bring a dramatic blood moon to skies across North America, Australia, New Zealand and eastern Asia — if you know where to look.

Flashes of gravitationally lensed starlight could act as cosmic lighthouses revealing the presence of binary supermassive black holes in close orbit.

China's reusable Shenlong space plane launched on its fourth space mission earlier this month. What is it doing in Earth orbit, and how do those activities advance China's space goals?

A major snow storm hitting the northeast U.S. has been captured in satellite imagery.

'The whole movie is like this big roller coaster emotional experience.'

The next lunar eclipse will be overnight on March 2-4, 2026.

They were gourmet, but not from any grocery store you can find on Earth.

These are the best drones under $500 that deliver some of the latest drone technology despite their competitive prices.

Satellite spies stunning auroras from orbit during G1 geomagnetic storm.

The moon and Pleiades will glow together on Feb. 23 in a striking skywatching display.

The total lunar eclipse occurs around the March full moon phase, as the sun, Earth and lunar disk align.

It feels so obvious that time moves forward that questioning it can seem almost pointless.

NASA's Perseverance rover can now pinpoint its exact location on Mars without help from Earth, paving the way for longer, more autonomous exploration.

Why do some places wait 1,000 years to see a total solar eclipse while others get two in a decade? The surprising orbital mechanics behind where eclipses happen — and don't.

By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that spacecraft’s velocity could receive a huge boost — enough to allow it to catch up with 3I/ATLAS, which is the fastest comet ever seen.

Two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets, each carrying Starlink satellites, launched from California and Florida on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. The second booster set a new reuse record.

NASA is troubleshooting a glitch with the upper stage of Artemis 2's Space Launch System rocket that will likely delay the launch of the moon mission.

On Episode 198 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Principal Investigator Dr. Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle about the Dragonfly mission and what to expect in the coming years.

I tried out Canon's latest vlogging camera for astrophotography, the PowerShot V1 and managed to capture the Andromeda galaxy and the Milky Way!