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Vice President Kamala Harris will preside over her second National Space Council meeting Friday (Sept. 9) at 2:20 p.m. EDT (1840 GMT).

The full moon of Saturday (Sept. 10) also carries the title of the Harvest Moon for those living in the Northern Hemisphere.

Nuclear fusion is the process of forcing together two light atomic nuclei and creating a heavier one, in the process taking a tiny amount of matter and turning it into massive amounts of energy.

The early universe experienced a rapid "baby boom" of star formation. Now clues collected from a stellar nursery in the Small Magellanic Cloud could hint at the conditions that caused it.

Hunting for interstellar objects in our solar system may have a new venue: the moon. Finding out if they crashed there likely will require astronauts to go hunting.

SpaceX fired up the engines of its space-bound Starship prototype Thursday afternoon (Sept. 8) in a dramatic test that also set some of the surrounding landscape ablaze.

NASA and others in the space community are adding their voices to the chorus mourning the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

A new way of teaching science can give students a chance to learn how science really makes its way forward and offer them a chance to mix it up themselves.

After weeks of off-the-charts monsoon rains, Pakistan's largest freshwater lake started overflowing in early September, new satellite images reveal.

IDW to release a prequel comic series to this year's "Star Trek: Resurgence" video game.

'Rolls' proposed engine design and legacy business model is not the best option,' the supersonic jet maker said in a statement.

NASA's next attempt to launch its new megarocket on a test flight to the moon could lift off by Sept. 23, but only if the agency fixes a leak and receives a critical waiver from the U.S. Space Force.

A new type of exoplanet, one made half of rock and half of water, has been discovered around the most common stars in the universe. The find may have great consequences in the search for alien life.

Every month the moon pairs up with Saturn and in September this conjunction will be seen in the evening time, visible with the naked eye.

The world's largest and most powerful space telescope is now for sale at your local U.S. post office. A postage stamp depicting the James Webb Space Telescope has been released by the USPS.

Using its DRACO camera, DART has imaged the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos.

It's been 50 years since humans last visited the moon, and even robotic missions have been few and far between. But the Earth's only natural satellite is about to get crowded.

Scientists are making the coldest matter in the universe, chilling below the temperature of deep space and just above absolute zero.

Bosons are at the heart of interactions between matter, carry the universe's fundamental forces, and help the constituents of matter stick together.

The 3D modeling of a planet's orbit around a star in a binary star system is raising new questions about how both gas giant planets and binary stars form.

A Newtonian reflector that is versatile, affordable and optically impressive with an equatorial mount to view solar system objects, double stars and deep sky targets.