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A Long March 7 rocket carrying the robotic Tianzhou 5 cargo spacecraft rolled out to its pad on Hainan island early Wednesday (Nov. 9) to gear up for an expected Friday (Nov. 11) launch.

Archival images from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an infant supernova photographed just hours after the star's explosion 11.5 billion years ago.

Artemis 1 will remain at the launch pad to ride Tropical Storm Nicole out when it hits Florida.

The new podcast series "Blood, Sweat & Rockets" shines a light on the aerospace pioneers who founded NASA's famous Jet Propulsion Lab and helped blaze a trail to the heavens.

The legacy of Arecibo's nearly 60 years of astronomy research is strong, even after its loss in a dramatic 2020 collapse.

The Anycubic Photon Mono X is now just over $300 direct from the Anycubic website, alongside a host of other November deals.

The 2023 Lyrid meteor shower will occur between April 16-25 and peak on the night of April 22. A typical shower displays between five and 20 meteors per hour.

The first astronauts set to fly on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft debuted a new look for their mission patch. Crew Flight Test commander Butch Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams sported the new insignia.

Explore the cosmos and battle aliens with the best space games, from No Man's Sky to Mass Effect.

The Playmobil Bird Of Prey ship is an exciting expansion of the manufacturer's Star Trek range and will land in December.

On Nov. 3, a solar storm caused a temporary crack in Earth's magnetic field. The resulting hole enabled energetic particles to penetrate deep into the planet's atmosphere and set off extremely rare pink auroras.

Residents and municipal officials in a small Canadian town are asking SpaceRyde, which is building a small rocket, to stop engine testing in their community.

The distant ice giant planet Uranus will be facing the sun in the sky on the evening of Wednesday (Nov. 9), during an astronomical arrangement called opposition.

In the depths of an Alpine mountain range, a researcher is searching for life that might look just like that on other planets.

The private Cygnus cargo craft is scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station early Wednesday morning (Nov. 9) despite being unable to deploy one of its two solar arrays.

The approaching Tropical Storm Nicole has forced NASA to push its highly anticipated Artemis 1 moon launch back by two days, to Nov. 16.

Ukraine's space-based communications infrastructure took a serious hit recently due to funding problems, according to a media report.

Broccoli, algae and many other plants and microbes on Earth purge toxins by morphing them into gases that might be present in exoplanet atmospheres, signaling life.

Space tourism company Virgin Galactic may be sued by shareholders, a media report suggests, while Virgin Orbit is bleeding cash ahead of its first launch from the United Kingdom.

China has completed a first hot fire test of a fully-assembled powerful new engine that could power new launch vehicles and boost the country's space capabilities.

By sheer chance, astronomers have spotted the stripped core of a star that was once 12 times the mass of the sun during a stage of stellar evolution that lasts the blink of a cosmic eye.