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Set phasers to livestream, Trek fans, because Star Trek Day 2022 is read to beam you in Sept. 8 and you can watch it live online for free.

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope could change how we explore the sun and our understanding of hazardous solar flares.

The U.S. Air Force conducted an early-morning suborbital test of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, on Wednesday (Sept. 7).

A new astrophysical model confirmed by ALMA observations suggests that carbon monoxide missing from planetary nebulas could be frozen as undetectable ice.

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a strange exoplanet shrouded in clouds made of sand-like silicate grains.

Russia's reactivation of lunar exploration via its robotic Luna 25 lander has slipped to 2023.

Venus is being hammered by wild space weather this week after a giant sunspot, not visible from Earth, expelled an enormous plasma burst toward the scorching-hot planet.

Polaris Dawn aims to launch in late 2022 for a mission including the first commercial spacewalk. Inspiration4 astronaut Jared Isaacman will once again fly in space.

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The waxing gibbous moon will pass near Saturn on Sept. 7 and 8. Meanwhile, the moon reaches perigee or its closest point along its orbit to the Earth.

Researchers are working to come up with ways to mitigate the space junk problem, one of which would use fabrication concepts to reduce the size of debris pieces that make it to Earth.

Astronomers have discovered two super-Earths orbiting an ultracool dwarf star 100 light-years away, and one of the planets could support the existence of liquid water, a vital ingredient of life.

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An Ariane 5 rocket carrying a European communications satellite is scheduled to launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana Wednesday (Sept. 7) at 5:45 p.m. EDT (2145 GMT). Watch it live here.

Bailey Burns learned how to 'speed cube' to solve the Rubik's Cube puzzle in 19 seconds during a parabolic flight.

Asteroid 3 Juno, half the length of the Grand Canyon, will whip past Earth at an average speed 30 times that of a jet fighter on its 4-year orbit around our star.

The story of how JWST's images of distant galaxies and the words of an astrophysicist were misused by science deniers to try and throw shade on the Big Bang.

NASA will replace a seal in an attempt to fix the leak that scuttled last weekend's planned Artemis 1 moon launch — and it will do the work on the pad.

The spaceflight doubleheader involved a Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket and a Long March 2D, which launched from different spaceports 115 minutes apart late Monday and early Tuesday (Sept. 5 and Sept. 6).

New research from historical sources indicates that Betelgeuse had a yellowish hue around two millennia ago.

A Michigan-based aurora chaser got an unexpected treat last night when an aurora-like ribbon of glowing stripes paraded just above his head.