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Hijinks are all but guaranteed with a classic Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode 5 based on the always-entertaining 'body swap' routine.

Because Earth is the only planet known to host life as we know it, researchers have usually focused on planetary systems similar to our own when searching for extraterrestrial life.

Investors eagerly awaiting the initial public offering of SpaceX's Starlink satellite-internet business will have to cool their heels for a while.

China's Shenzhou 14 astronauts are only just settling in for their six-month mission aboard the country's space station, but Shenzhou 15 is already on standby in case of an emergency in orbit.

June presents a perfect opportunity to spot the three biggest constellations in the sky — Hydra, Virgo and Ursa Major — but you may have to look beyond standard star charts to find the Big Three.

Lockheed Martin engineers assist Hollywood to design "Top Gun: Maverick's" Darkstar jet

Time to get your laser blasters ready again to hunt down aliens — or at least alien galaxies.

The discovery of a neutron star emitting unusual radio signals is rewriting our understanding of these unique star systems.

Scientists are tracing the movement of dust over Martian eons using a high-definition camera from orbit.

You'll have to hurry as the offer ends June 20.

SpaceX's next cargo mission to the International Space Station won't launch this week after all.

This fresh Hubble Space Telescope image looks like a gassy disaster unfolding deep in space.

Russian cosmonaut Valery Ryumin, who launched on four space station missions including the final U.S. space shuttle flight to dock with the former Mir outpost, has died.

A new simulation maps the first few seconds after the Big Bang, focusing on what scientists call the intergalactic medium, or the gas and dust between galaxies.

The Artemis 1 stack rolled out to Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39B today (June 6) for the second time, gearing up for another crack at its 'wet dress rehearsal.'

Over the past century, humans have pushed CO₂ levels to their highest in 2 million years – overtaking natural emissions – mostly by burning fossil fuels, causing ongoing global warming that may make parts of the globe uninhabitable.

SpaceX's Starship vehicle will operate like a gigantic flying Pez dispenser on some missions, if all goes according to plan.

If aliens exist, they do exist, they might be hanging out on Dyson spheres circling the husks of sunlike stars called white dwarfs.

The three Shenzhou-14 astronauts — commander Chen Dong and Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe — are settling in for a lengthy stay aboard China's Tiangong space station.

The dust trail from the largest comet outburst on record will be visible to amateur astronomers in late July 2022.

An asteroid demolition derby took place between 7.8 million and 11.7 million years after the birth of the solar system.