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Four private astronauts made history today (April 25), splashing safely down on Earth after completing the first fully private crewed mission aboard the International Space Station.

Elon Musk, the billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO, will acquire Twitter for $54.20 per share in a deal worth about $44 billion.

The newly-upgraded Large Hadron Collider just broke a world record with its proton beams.

The celestial highlight in the days ahead will involve the three brightest objects in the nighttime sky: the moon and the planets Venus and Jupiter.

NASA will roll its Artemis 1 moon rocket off the launch pad today (April 25) at about 5:30 p.m. EDT (2130 GMT), and you can watch the action live.

A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying the four crewmembers of the Ax-1 mission splashed down off the coast of Florida today (April 25), bringing the groundbreaking flight to a close.

A 'wispy' galaxy 4 billion light-years away from us features in a glorious new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The solar cycle describes an 11-year period of solar activity driven by the sun's magnetic field and indicated by the number of sunspots visible on the surface.

Our selection of the best telescopes will suit all budgets and needs — whether you're observing planets, stars, the moon or anything else in the night sky.

The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program is funding a range of space tech studies in early development. In the future, they could assist space missions.

Earth scientists in China have found evidence of a subduction zone dating to 2.5 billion years ago.

The first American privately funded mission to the International Space Station ends today with an anticipated splash down off the coast of Florida at about 1:06 p.m. EDT (1706 GMT).

We have fully reviewed the best stargazing apps for Android and iOS, and ranked them in order here.

We've found the best Sky-Watcher telescope deals for you.

The Celestron SkyMaster 15x70 binoculars are over £29 off on Amazon

On Sunday (April 17), skywatching cameras in Ontario recorded a massive fireball that likely produced tens to hundreds of grams of meteorites.

Pluto is lucky to exist in the orbit that it does, according to new computer simulations that show how the dwarf planet skirts near a chaotic orbit that could potentially destroy the beloved world.

It's no coincidence that the headlines have been full of solar flares and storms: Solar cycle 25, as astronomers call it, is now well under way.

The pioneering Ax-1 mission has left the International Space Station and is headed back to Earth.

Scientists restarted the Large Hadron Collider on April 22 to hunt for dark matter and fringe physics.

As the early universe cooled shortly after the Big Bang, bubbles formed in its hot plasma, triggering gravitational waves that could be detectable even today, a new study suggests.