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Scientists discovered the mechanism that causes electrons to 'downpour' into Earth's atmosphere.

Abrams Books delivers another stellar "making of" edition with "The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian" Season 2

Researchers have spotted what might be the farthest astronomical object ever found — a galaxy candidate named HD1 that they estimate is 13.5 billion light-years away.

Around the world, astrophysicists are poring over the blips of gravitational waves that ripple through Earth when distant black holes or neutron stars collide. Most don't also attend high school.

The launch of Crew-4 had been scheduled for April 19. But it'll now lift off no earlier than April 20, and NASA and SpaceX are also considering the backup date of April 23.

Bjarni Tryggvason, one of Canada's original astronauts, has died at the age of 76. Selected by the National Research Council of Canada in 1983, Tryggvason launched with NASA's STS-85 crew in 1997.

When comets first appear near Earth, their bright tails of ionized gas stun observers, but on every subsequent return, they become dimmer.

The two rockets — NASA's SLS and SpaceX's Falcon 9 — can be seen together in photos that NASA posted to one of its Flickr accounts today (April 6).

"Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Official Collector's Edition" lands on April 5 from Titan Comics

Unlike the short "joyrides" of Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, this mission will be reaching the roughly 400km altitude needed to dock with the ISS.

Scientists found a remarkably stable 'black widow ' pulsar that could be used to help detect gravitational waves.

With Ewan McGregor finally stepping back into the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi after 15 years, it’s a moment that fans of every generation have been waiting for.

Emerging research is refining scientists' understanding of how Earth's committed warming will affect the climate.

Hungarian astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky has discovered hundreds of asteroids. Now he wants to make his tiny country the second best at spotting unknown space rocks after only the U.S.

Mark Vande Hei is happy having spent almost a year in space. A NASA astronaut, Vande Hei returned from a 355-day stay on the International Space Station and a week later, he shared his experience.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new view of a galaxy with an active black hole obscured by tendrils of dark dust.

Data collected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed that a supernova shock wave traveling through the Cassiopeia A nebula is not expanding as evenly as it should be.

On Tuesday (April 5), SpaceX rolled the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule that will fly the Ax-1 mission out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission won't wrap up a crucial test until this weekend at the earliest.

The announcement comes as part of the "Star Trek" First Contact Day event.

Amazon has joined the Orbital Reef commercial space station project led by Blue Origin, Sierra Space and Boeing.