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Check out our ranking of some Star Wars fan films and amateur shorts influenced by 45 years of lore.

The second and only remaining operational data recorder aboard NASA's magnetosphere-observing Geotail spacecraft has failed, jeopardizing a mission that has been in operation for three decades.

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket has arrived at a launch complex in Virginia ahead of the company's first liftoff from U.S. soil later this year.

SpaceX will expand its Starlink constellation yet again with a launch on Thursday (Oct. 20), and you can watch it live.

It's understandable if you're a bit confused about the funding situation with SpaceX's Starlink satellite-internet service in Ukraine.

The raid on the Aldhani Imperial base unfolds almost in real time and there are some interesting post-action developments.

A SpaceX technician suffered a head injury that placed him in a coma for two months while performing a pressure check on a rocket engine, according to reports.

Virgin Orbit's Cosmic Girl carrier plane has arrived in Cornwall in preparation for the first-ever orbital launch from the United Kingdom.

The iconic Pillars of Creation sparkle with new-born stars in a photograph captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

Satellites watched as an absolutely massive Airbus Beluga aircraft unloaded a telecommunications satellite at Kennedy Space Center ahead of a planned SpaceX launch.

Join a crowd of Red Planet researchers at the 2022 International Mars Society Convention, which is broadcasting some of the activities online.

A recent report about pitch-black "phantom" UFOs in the skies over Ukraine has been discredited by Ukrainian scientists and by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb.

The infinite cosmos usually populated by a lot of straight white dudes, but The Expanse bucks the trend for the better.

Space Crystals plans to land DNA-infused crystals on the moon in a commercial lunar lander.

Explore all 63 of Saturn's verified moons, along with their names and discovery dates. Other moons await official confirmation of their discovery.

Two decades' worth of observations of supernova explosions and a powerful new analysis tool has provided the most accurate accounting of dark energy and dark matter to date.

Five years after spotting 'Oumuamua, the first known object from beyond our solar system passing through, scientists are still figuring out what the strange object says about planetary systems.

Capture detail throughout high-contrast scenes as we show you how to shoot and edit HDR images with your drone.

NASA has approved U.S. spacewalks outside the space station again, after finding that hardware issues didn't cause the buildup of water in an astronaut's helmet during a March 2022 excursion.

Virgin Orbit will work with Luxembourg's Directorate of Defense to map out a possible way for the company to "strengthen the resiliency of NATO and other Allies."

For a few days centered on Oct. 21st each year, the Earth sweeps through a swarm of meteoroids known as the Orionids; widely scattered debris shed by the most famous of all comets, Halley's Comet.