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China is gearing up to send the third crew to its new Tiangong space station, with launch set for late Saturday (June 4) U.S. Eastern time.

NS-21, the next mission of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle, is now targeted for Saturday (June 4) — about two weeks later than originally planned.

A single flash from the sky pointed the way to a bizarre star that rotates very slowly, making it difficult to figure out if it's a pulsar or some other stellar object.

"Shooting stars" from a new meteor shower lit up the night sky in a dazzling display, even if it wasn't a "meteor storm" some stargazers hoped for.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has delayed the completion of its environmental review of SpaceX's Starship program by another two weeks, to June 13.

Microwave jammers, mini-satellites and space lasers could all be used to scuttle Starlink .

The CAPSTONE mission will test the feasibility of an energy-efficient orbit and navigation around the moon in preparation for the Artemis mission.

Japan's Himawari-8 weather satellite serendipitously captured the dramatic changes in brightness of Orion's red supergiant star in 2019-2020.

The way each planet's atmosphere responds to methane might be responsible for the different hues of Uranus and Neptune.

A geologist explains what the "doorway" on Mars really is and why it's so tempting to see recognizable shapes on other worlds.

One day you’re a Jedi Knight, the next you’re harvesting meat in the middle of the desert and living in a cave with your hairless camel…

You don’t have to be an inquisitor to hunt down all of ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’s’ Easter eggs and Star Wars references, but it helps…

Here are four big scientific questions about the Milky Way that astronomers hope to solve with the upcoming data dump from the European Gaia galaxy-charting mission.

A peculiar pair of galaxies swirls together in a mesmerizing new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The spiral arms of NGC 3631 are bursting with star-forming regions captured in a stunning Hubble Space Telescope image.

Stratolaunch's Talon-A test vehicle will eventually drop from the biggest airplane ever built, known as the Roc.

Investigating these co-orbiting worlds in our own solar system may help us predict prevalence in extrasolar systems.

Low Earth orbit is the lowest altitude a satellite can travel around our planet.

Reports are coming in from observers who caught a few early shooting stars.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the otherworldly image of IC 564 when it looked at this region to learn more about 'clumpy' star formation.

Officials promise geology 'from 50 light-years away,' as they train the James Webb Space Telescope's high-precision spectrographs on two exoplanets.