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"The Book of Boba Fett" on Disney Plus jumps into the Star Wars bounty hunter's backstory at light speed in episode 1.

The nor'easter sent more than 14 inches of snow into the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.

The James Webb Space Telescope successfully extended its secondary mirror as it continues to sail seamlessly through its never-before-conducted deployment sequence on the way to its destination.

Orion's Flame Nebula rings in the New Year in a blazing new photo from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity's next Mars sortie will take place as early as Friday (Jan. 7). The little chopper will cruise over a ridge and onto a plateau.

An alliance of experts in space, sports and the entertainment industry are designing and developing original games exclusively for low or microgravity playing fields.

Amazon's Alexa has a new feature: it can fly you to the moon. The virtual assistant is set to launch on NASA's Artemis 1 with Cisco's Webex as part of Callisto on Lockheed Martin's Orion spacecraft.

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is based on the idea that massive objects cause a distortion in space-time, which is felt as gravity.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) want to engineer a new kind of hovering spacecraft that can operate without air.

If you could journey through the cosmos' most monstrous objects, what tales — if any — would you be able to tell?

Scientists have just created the world's lightest form of magnesium — a never-before-seen isotope with just six neutrons in its atomic nuclei.

Comet Leonard is slipping out of view, but not without putting on one last show.

China welcomed the New Year with a live stream from cameras outside the new Tianhe space station module showing the beauty of the Earth below.

A meteor hurtling through Earth's atmosphere exploded over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on New Year's Day (Jan. 1).

The Webb team can now turn to the next big-ticket item on its list: getting the telescope's secondary and primary mirrors into the proper configuration. But it'll take a while to check those boxes.

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed all five layers of its tennis-court-sized sunshield.

Plus dates of all the other sci-fi coming to the small screen in 2022

As eyes turn to the deployment of a new space telescope, the Astronauts Memorial Foundation is shining light on the last astronauts' to visit one, offering Hubble coins with STS-125 crew autographs.

The sun is just a little bit closer in Earth's sky right now.

Scientists just collected the first measurements of violent eruptions in extremely dense magnetic stars called magnetars.

A new video of solar streamers evokes the streaking stars seen during spacecraft hyperdrives in "Star Wars."