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How do you design a sail that can get a spacecraft to another solar system?

Finding more and more exoplanets to study has, as we might have expected, widened our understanding of what a planet is.

The giant rocket aims to achieve orbit later in 2022.

All core stage rocket engines on NASA's moon rocket performed as expected in a recent series of tests that followed a replacement of a faulty control mechanism in one of those engines.

Salvage crews investigate a mysterious derelict starship in writer S.A. Barnes' new sci-fi horror book "Dead Silence."

Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun and was the first to be predicted before it was discovered.

Here's how time works, according to science.

The James Webb Space Telescope will study the weirdly flickering black hole at the heart of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

A Hubble Space Telescope image shows a stunning triple galaxy merger in the constellation Cancer.

A mini-gallery containing 64 works of art created by artists from all over the world arrived at the International Space Station aboard the Cygnus NG-17 mission on Monday (Feb. 21).

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory recovered from a reaction wheel failure that took place last month.

The Northrop Grumman Cygnus 17 spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station on Monday at 4:44 a.m. EST (0944 GMT), delivering 8,300 pounds (3,765 kilograms) of scientific experiments, food and other supplies.

In a new study scientists have found that that, on the hot Jupiter exoplanet WASP-121 b, the clouds are made of metal and liquid rubies and sapphires rain down from the sky.

The fine-guidance instrument is key to keeping the space telescope pointed in the right direction.

Cosmology by definition is the branch of astronomy involving the origin and evolution of the universe, from the Big Bang to the future of the cosmos.

It's high noon! Get cheap Lego Overwatch and Lego Movie 2 sets in these Amazon Lego deals.

The prototype system, developed by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is designed to alert operators when their spacecraft may be on a collision course with another object.

On June 7, 1195, a fiery spinning ball emerged from a dark cloud in an erstwhile sunny sky close to the London lodgings of the bishop of Norwich.

The webcast starts Monday (Feb. 21) at 7 p.m. EST.

Need your fix of mobile sci-fi action? These games will do the trick.

Zack Snyder shares a first look at concept art for his new sci-fi saga for Netflix, "Rebel Moon."