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As 'Apollo 13' turns 30, we talk to legendary NASA flight director Gerry Griffin who helped make the film as realistic as possible.

"Project Hail Mary" is the upcoming outer space odyssey, based on Andy Weir's 2021 novel, that offers a stirring story of alien first contact.

NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose material that could hold clues to the planet's ancient environment and habitability.

"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfolio, will help to ensure the US does not cede leadership in deep space to other nations, such as China."

Parisian astronomer Camille Flammarion brought used science fiction to bring Mars to life

The World Meteorological Organization maintains a list of 21 hurricane names for each year. In especially busy years, a supplemental list is used.

Muon Space released the first images from its new wildfire detection satellite, FireSat.

Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its 13th crewed New Shepard rocket on a successful suborbital spaceflight on Sunday, June 29, 2025.

Spielberg's contemporary spin on H. G. Wells would be up there with his best if only he could have nailed the ending.

Cheap, uninsured satellites are creating more space junk — and it's starting to rain down on our heads.

The 50th and final liftoff of Japan's H-2A rocket launched the GOSAT-GW satellite on Saturday, June 28, 2025.

The Axiom Mission-4 (Ax-4) crew flying aboard SpaceX's Dragon "Grace" docked to the International Space Station beginning a two-week stay on the orbiting laboratory with the Expedition 73 crew.

The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious

On Episode 167 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by AJ Gemer of Lunar Outpost, a fast-moving company innovating in cislunar technology.

George Lucas had big plans for a live-action TV series before he sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 — so what happened?

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with 27 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on the first of two launches scheduled for Saturday, June 28, 2025.

For years, Robert Hunt convinced everyone he could that he was a NASA astronaut. The truth was anything but.

The fireball was bright enough to be spotted by a lightning-tracking satellite from orbit.

The meteor shower radiant can be found in the constellation Bootes.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon spacecraft carrying Axiom-4 astronauts heads to the International Space Station.