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Shri. Somnath is best-known for developing the country's highly successful PSLV rocket.

A telescope in Arizona modified to measure the true distance of galaxies has produced the largest three-dimensional map of the universe ever.

The show might be ending on Amazon Prime, but it's important that we still get our recommended daily allowance of "The Expanse."

The full moon of January, known as the Full Wolf Moon, arrives Monday, Jan. 17, at 6:48 p.m. EST (1148 GMT).

Astronomers have spotted three new exoplanets orbiting dangerously close to their parent stars, on the brink of extinction.

Astrophysics is a branch of space science that applies the laws of physics and chemistry to seek to understand the universe and our place in it.

If the rays of the setting or rising sun hit the moon just right, the blood moon appears.

Laika, a Moscow street dog, became the first creature to orbit Earth, but she died in space.

How realistic is spaceflight in video games? From takeoff to interstellar travel, let's look at some popular games to see how they stack up.

Redshift and blueshift describe the change in the frequency of a light wave depending on whether an object is moving towards or away from us.

James Cameron’s space adventure Avatar was largely about hyper-realistic aliens, but the spaceships and vehicles used by the human invaders were very impressive too.

SpaceX has some nice before-and-after photos to mark the 10th launch of one of its Falcon 9 rockets, thanks to a satisfied customer.

2021 was another record-setting year, ranking as the sixth hottest year on record. Following a trend, these past eight years have also been the eight hottest years on record.

As the James Webb Space Telescope begins the lengthy process of aligning its 18 primary mirror segments, astronomers wonder: What will the huge observatory look at first?

The alien with the unpronounceable name is back for a second season of more mischief, more mayhem

Here's everything you need to now of NASA's Artemis-1 mission to the moon.

Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket lofted seven small satellites for three different customers today (Jan. 13), marking the third straight successful mission for the California-based company.

The comet's frequent recurrence has played a part in historical events for millennia.

China's Shenzhou 13 astronauts conducted a manual rendezvous and docking test over the weekend to test emergency procedures for spacecraft visiting the Chinese space station.

Organic molecules found in a Mars meteorite that crash-landed on Earth are not signs of life, but instead formed in chemical reactions between water and rock on the Red Planet about 4 billion years ago.

A group of physicists has measured gravity using the effects of time dilation — the slowing of time imparted by increased velocity or gravitational force — on atoms.