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The newly released 4K video shows the observatory flying away from its rocket toward deep space.

All about the Planck time: where it came from, what it is, and what it might reveal about the way the universe works

"The Book of Boba Fett" on Disney Plus jumps into the Star Wars bounty hunter's backstory at light speed in episode 1.

The Persei upper stage of a Russian Angara A5 rocket crashed back to Earth in an uncontrolled fashion today (Jan. 5), reentering over the South Pacific at 4:08 p.m. EST (2108 GMT).

The nor'easter sent more than 14 inches of snow into the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.

The James Webb Space Telescope successfully extended its secondary mirror as it continues to sail seamlessly through its never-before-conducted deployment sequence on the way to its destination.

The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity's next Mars sortie will take place as early as Friday (Jan. 7). The little chopper will cruise over a ridge and onto a plateau.

Orion's Flame Nebula rings in the New Year in a blazing new photo from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

An alliance of experts in space, sports and the entertainment industry are designing and developing original games exclusively for low or microgravity playing fields.

Amazon's Alexa has a new feature: it can fly you to the moon. The virtual assistant is set to launch on NASA's Artemis 1 with Cisco's Webex as part of Callisto on Lockheed Martin's Orion spacecraft.

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is based on the idea that massive objects cause a distortion in space-time, which is felt as gravity.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) want to engineer a new kind of hovering spacecraft that can operate without air.

If you could journey through the cosmos' most monstrous objects, what tales — if any — would you be able to tell?

China welcomed the New Year with a live stream from cameras outside the new Tianhe space station module showing the beauty of the Earth below.

Comet Leonard is slipping out of view, but not without putting on one last show.

Scientists have just created the world's lightest form of magnesium — a never-before-seen isotope with just six neutrons in its atomic nuclei.

A meteor hurtling through Earth's atmosphere exploded over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on New Year's Day (Jan. 1).

The Webb team can now turn to the next big-ticket item on its list: getting the telescope's secondary and primary mirrors into the proper configuration. But it'll take a while to check those boxes.

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed all five layers of its tennis-court-sized sunshield.

As eyes turn to the deployment of a new space telescope, the Astronauts Memorial Foundation is shining light on the last astronauts' to visit one, offering Hubble coins with STS-125 crew autographs.

Plus dates of all the other sci-fi coming to the small screen in 2022