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Chinese engineers have conducted a successful hot fire test of a new, powerful engine for the nation's planned super heavy-lift rocket for moon missions.

Located at the outer edge of the solar system, the distant planet Neptune will make its closest approach to Earth on Friday, when it will be visible in opposition to the sun all through the night.

Mars and the moon will make a close approach to each other in the sky tonight (Sept. 16), and here's what you can expect to see.

A "new era" in Martian water searches awaits, a new study suggests, with hundreds of ancient lakes likely still lying undetected on the Red Planet.

As the United States continues to leverage more commercial satellites for intelligence and communications work, Russia has warned these craft may become a "legitimate target" for wartime operations.

A team of physicists has found that the remnant of a neutron star merger observed in 2019 has just the right mass to be a strange hypothetical quark star.

An intermediate spiral galaxy called NGC 1961 was photographed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, revealing gorgeous spiral arms and glittering, blue regions of bright young stars.

Inspiration4 raised $250 million for charity during the first-ever all-private crewed mission to orbit, and it's just the start of a program using SpaceX vehicles for private flights.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has collected four samples from an ancient Red Planet river delta in the past few months, and all point toward a formerly habitable environment.

The Sept. 28 SpaceX launch on behalf of the Space Development Agency slipped due to supply chain problems, with bid issues and software development also contributing.

A 'disconnection event' in the bright Comet Leonard caught the eyes of judges at Royal Observatory Greenwich.

Saturn's rings might have formed 100 million years ago when one of its icy moons was ripped apart by the planet's gravity.

Disney releases the final trailer for its upcoming "Rogue One" prequel spinoff, "Andor."

Sci-fi owes a lot to classic Star Trek, but some of it aged quite poorly, and the new shows only served to highlight that to us.

Disney Plus releases first trailer for their new animated anthology "Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi," delivering peeks at the origin stories for fan favorite characters.

Astronomers may be interpreting James Webb Space Telescope's measurements of exoplanet atmospheres wrong, a new study suggests.

A spinoff from the space shuttle program is offering people in menopause with relief from hot flashes, NASA says.

A fireball broke up between northern Ireland and Scotland on Wednesday (Sept. 14) at 9:57 p.m. local time, glittering green in the view of populations around the United Kingdom.

Pizza pies have been launched frozen into space and been likened to the moon in song. Never before, though, has a pizza been said to be "space-flavored." That is, until Papa Johns' "Planet Chorizo."

This app-aligned telescope proves an affordable option for backyard moon and planet gazing.

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