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The private astronauts of Inspiration4 will be helping to expand our understanding of how space affects the human body on their mission around Earth.

NASA engineers are building a next-generation supersonic plane that will produce a barely audible thump instead of the infamous boom that can rattle furniture and break glass.

We're getting a bird's-eye view of some of the damage Ida has wrought, thanks to before-and-after photos snapped by Maxar Technologies' WorldView-2 satellite.

Powerful eyes in the sky watched the menacing maelstrom Ida churn through the southern United States, even at night.

Learn all about the U.S. Space Force's robotic X-37B space plane, which has flown six mystery missions to date.

The launch of NASA's Earth-observing Landsat 9 satellite will be delayed a week due to a shortage of liquid nitrogen.

By entangling the motion and quantum properties of a beryllium crystal, scientists have achieved unprecedented precision for measuring electromagnetic waves.

Fans may have had limited access to U.S. Open tennis tournaments over the last year and a half, but at least they can view it from space.

NASA is looking for student teams to enter its TechRise Student Challenge, which tasks students in grades six through 12 with designing experiments to launch on a suborbital spaceflight.

Humanity is feeling the effects of climate change around the world, but could climate change make humans go extinct?

Explore a mythic ocean planet to carve out a future for a community haunted by oblivion.

NOAA's GOES 17 satellite has captured this video of Caldor Fire as the blaze spread south of Lake Tahoe and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents.

Mysterious repeating pulses of radio waves may come from a hitherto unknown kind of extraordinarily powerful cosmic magnet, and not pairs of stars as previously suggested, a new study finds.

The ESA are asking astronaut applicants to be patient as they process more than 23,000 applications. The deadline for submissions was in late June, but thousands are still waiting to discover if they’ve made the cut.

There's no consensus yet on how supermassive black holes form, but a new mesmerizing simulation is taking a crack at that question like never before.

What are the chances that a primordial black hole forged in the earliest moments of the universe will come wandering toward Earth?

Several NASA employees and a "Star Trek" actor gathered virtually in a panel to celebrate diversity on what would have been the 100th birthday of the franchise's creator, Gene Roddenberry.

Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana as a Category 4 storm, the first U.S. landfall of 2021. See photos of the hurricane from space here.

A flaming blue sword seems to pierce a giant cosmic heart in a gorgeous new photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

IDW rolls out it's 2021 edition of their "Vader’s Castle" saga with "Star Wars Adventures: Ghosts of Vader's Castle" coming Sept. 22, 2021.

The sheer size of Hurricane Ida when it made landfall on Sunday was clearly visible from a NOAA satellite 1 million miles away.