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Astronaut Sian Proctor says it's the first time humans deliberately let a space rock revisit its home.

On Dec. 11, 2021, Blue Origin will launch former NFL football player and Good Morning America host Michael Strahan to space alongside five crewmates on the New Shepard rocket's NS-19 mission. Liftoff is set for 9:45 a.m. EST (1445 GMT) with a live webcast to begin at 8:15 a.m. EST (1315 GMT). Strahan will launch on a suborbital flight on New Shepard with Laura Shepard Churchley, eldest daughter of famed NASA astronaut Alan Shepard, and paying passengers Dylan Taylor, Evan Dick, Lane Bess and Cameron Bess.

Michael Strahan, who played in the NFL from 1993 to 2007, will tote a football on his suborbital jaunt with Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin on Saturday.

The 17-year-old program met its goal in raising awareness and the names will still be listed online, the agency said.

Laura Shepard Churchley is set to launch on a Blue Origin flight Saturday (Dec. 11).

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy periodically hiccups, burping a "mini-jet" out into space.

The star-studded cast spoke about Netflix's film, which debuts Dec. 10 in a select theater run.

Science is perfectly at the forefront of this star-studded story, but will the jokes connect with a wide audience?

The Geminid meteor shower peaks the night of Dec. 13-14. This guide tells you the best times and places to see these shooting stars (no equipment necessary).

The release of the 2022 version of Photoshop Elements sees Adobe add more one-click edits and AI cleverness to the photo-editing software

The December Geminid meteor shower is usually considered the most satisfying of the annual meteor displays, but this year, the moon will put a damper on the spectacle.

Here are the very best Star Wars Funko Pops that every collector should have.

George Abbey now has more than longhorns to his name at Johnson Space Center. Driving past where the cattle graze, visitors see a sign dedicating the Rocket Park to the former center director.

The 11 best mirrorless cameras available to buy today for both stills photography and video.

Blue Origin's third crewed mission is expected to lift off early Saturday morning (Dec. 11).

Blue Origin's third crewed launch, targeted for Saturday morning (Dec. 11), will feature an 11-minute flight to suborbital space and back.

Space.com caught up with Axiom Space's Matt Ondler recently to discuss the company's space station plans and the outlook for private industry in low Earth orbit, among other things.

An extraordinary galactic jet ejected from a supermassive black hole boasts a corkscrew-like helical structure, new ground-based telescope views reveal.

"All Is Possible" is probably the best episode of Season 4 so far.

Astronomers may have, for the first time, detected a sunlike star erupting with a giant outburst 10 times larger than anything similar ever seen from our sun.

Ideas about space exploration look different depending on who comes up with them, in what surroundings and for what purposes.