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In-flight education downlinks are chances for students to interact with astronauts on the International Space Station. Here are the nine most memorable downlink moments of 2021, as ranked by NASA.

Lego Star Wars helmet building sets that feature Scout Trooper and Darth Vader headgear are currently on sale.

During this very eventful year, two nations joined the Mars club, a robot plied Red Planet skies for the first time ever and humanity kicked off an ambitious interplanetary sample-return campaign.

From landing on Mars to launching private citizens into space, and everything in between, this year has seen many historic milestones and giant leaps.

The holiday season may be almost over, but Star Wars streaming has just begun!

The Standard Model explains the physics of how the world works. But in 2021, physicists started probing fundamental gaps in this long-established concept.

A bombshell UFO report, the "alien junk" in our solar system, and more new clues about extraterrestrial life.

These are some of the top exoplanet discoveries made in 2021.

Star Trek: Discovery's season 4 episode 7 sets up a mid-season cliffhanger that we'll have to wait six weeks to find out what happened.

A new pre-print study claims to have quantum entangled a tardigrade with two superconductor qubits, though experts are skeptical.

Theories based only on real numbers are incapable of explaining the results of this new experiment.

The lessons learned from these incidents will inform future rocket launches.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is three days into the deployment of its massive sunshield — and it still has about three days to go.

From the debut of new launch vehicles to missions to the moon, mars, asteroids and much more, a lot of exciting missions are expected to launch or arrive at their destination in 2022.

A new study sponsored by NASA investigates the feasibility of sending people with disabilities safely into space and returning them back to Earth.

Thanks to images from a robotic Earth telescope, you can now watch the James Webb Space Telescope travel through space.

The James Webb Space Telescope has unwrapped its sunshield, crossing another important item off of its lengthy and risky deployment to-do list.

Adorama is currently offering up to $200 off on powerful, but easy-to-use, Celestron StarSense Explorer telescopes in a year-end sale.

A year after its last launch, Russia’s newest rocket lifted off again — and things didn't go entirely according to plan.

From stem cells to blue jets to 'made in space' concrete, this is the best of 2021 International Space Station research.

Nibiru has been linked to NASA, and is also sometimes referred to or confused with Planet X, another supposed world for which there is no evidence.