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Zoom in to see the incredible Cartwheel Galaxy, which is 500 million light-years away from us.

Images on social media show that Galactic Energy of China lifted off successfully from the Jiaquan Satellite Launch Center on Tuesday (Aug. 9).

New research suggests a way for black holes to merge quickly: They must be caught in the accretion disk of a supermassive companion.

The Month on Mars expedition traveled to the Haughton-Mars Project base for its summer field season at a simulated Martian outpost.

When it comes to sci-fi on the small screen, there’s an abundance of choices to populate our best sci-fi TV shows of all time list.

The Stellina is a combination of a telescope and camera, and brings the Universe to the palm of your hand in minutes.

We round up the best stargazing tents for all situations, from solitary travelers to hosting parties.

Iran will soon have access to sharp orbital imagery, thanks to a newly launched Russian-built spy satellite.

For planetary scientist Alan Stern, witnessing the 20th century deep sea sarcophagus that is the Titanic serves up analogies to spaceflight.

SpaceX will launch 53 of its Starlink internet satellites and land a rocket at sea on Tuesday (Aug. 9), and you can watch the action live.

There's a 70% chance that the weather will be good enough to allow another batch of SpaceX's Starlink satellites to get off the ground from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Filmmaker Hashem Al-Ghaili has created a micro-budget sci-fi film with amazing visual effects in 'Orbital.'

SpaceX's massive "Booster 7" Super Heavy rocket prototype moved back to the launch pad Aug. 5 and 6 to prep for an orbital test flight with Starship later this year.

NOAA reported that a "moderate" solar storm struck Earth over the weekend, and another once could hit today.

Soviet-era cosmonaut Anatoly Filipchenko, who launched on two docking tests, first for a possible Russian moon landing and then the first joint flight with the United States, has died at age 94.

If you're worried about the full moon washing out the Perseid meteor shower peak Aug. 12, go out now. NASA cameras have already spotted 'shooting stars.'

The first agency assignments, for Artemis 2, should be announced later in 2022.

Ticket sales for NASA's next moonbound launch briefly overwhelmed the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex's website, but officials quickly addressed it.

China's Shenzhou 14 astronauts are getting the country's new space station module ready to host crews over the next decade.

Stardust provides the building blocks that form new stars and planets. New research shows a significant proportion of this stellar material may have been left in the solar system by giant stars going supernova.

The Space Force has conducted a demonstration using "robot dogs" for security patrols and other repetitive tasks.