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Skywatcher Alexander Krivenyshev captured stunning shots of the Antares rocket shining brightly above New York City's famous skyline early Monday morning (Nov. 7).

The lunar occultation of Uranus on Tuesday (Nov. 8) will give skywatchers a good guide to finding the distant and dim ice giant planet Uranus.

Two SETI telescopes came together for an evening in May to scan a zone where a purported alien signal emerged in 1977. They saw no sign of life, but will likely return for more searches.

SpaceX had been aiming to launch two telecom satellites on Tuesday (Nov. 8), but the developing Subtropical Storm Nicole has nixed that plan.

The oldest dead star found to have a planetary system, dating back 10.7 billion years, has been discovered covered in the rubble of destroyed worlds.

NASA is sticking by its Nov. 14 launch date for its historic Artemis 1 mission even as a subtropical storm develops in the Atlantic Ocean that is heading toward Kennedy Space Center.

China has a new, powerful communications satellite heading to geostationary orbit after a successful launch over the weekend.

The private Cygnus cargo ship has managed to unfurl just one of its two solar arrays, but the freighter may still be able to reach the space station on Wednesday (Nov. 9) as planned.

A wisp of light reflecting off the moon got caught in Earth's atmosphere, making our neighbor look like a white crown in orbit.

About half of the contiguous 48 states will enjoy mainly clear skies, providing a perfect backdrop for viewing the total eclipse of the moon that will take place early on Election Day morning.

See the sun rise while a total lunar eclipse sets on Tuesday (Nov. 8), in a phenomenon known as a 'selenelion'.

A strange blue aurora has been spotted in the skies over Abisko, Sweden. Could a Russian submarine be the culprit of the mysterious light show?

We've assembled a chronology of the different phases of the Blood Moon total lunar eclipse, including some of the things you might see during each phase.

One of the first movies from Phase 5 of the MCU we’ll be watching is the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Here’s everything we know so far.

Two puffs of star-making material exude mystical glows in a recently-published Hubble Space Telescope image.

A computer simulation of TRAPPIST-1e shows how the James Webb Space Telescope could help the search for habitable alien worlds.

Planets and stars are almost like parents and children, a new study suggests: The smaller bodies keep the larger ones active, helping them stay young for longer.

The last total lunar eclipse until 2025 will turn the moon a blood-red hue on Tuesday, Nov. 8, but exactly when you should look up depends on where you are.

The rapid decline of the British-Irish Ice Sheet thousands of years ago may hold lessons for how melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will influence sea-level rise in the future.

We're unprepared for when E.T. reaches out to us. A team of experts is determined to change that.

A fire alarm on Earth prevented the launch of Northrop Grumman's NG-18 cargo ship for NASA on Nov. 6.