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Six different rockets launched toward orbit during an approximately 17.5-hour stretch, topping by two the previous record for most liftoffs in a 24-hour span.

Houston company Axiom Space announced on Tuesday (April 29) that it's targeting May 29 for the launch of its fourth astronaut mission to the International Space Station.

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket suffered an anomaly during its sixth-ever launch today (April 29), resulting in the loss of its payload, a Lockheed Martin technology demonstration.

It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 spacecraft, when Ed Smylie realized they had to do something about the carbon dioxide.

Seventy-year-old NASA astronaut Don Pettit looked pretty peaked shortly after returning to Earth from the ISS this month. And he was pretty peaked — he'd just thrown up on the Kazakh steppe.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Satellite imagery reveals scope of damage from one of the largest fires New Jersey has seen in decades.

The European Space Agency's Biomass forest-monitoring satellite will launch atop a Vega-C rocket early Tuesday morning (April 29), and you can watch the liftoff live.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched the first big batch of satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband constellation to low Earth orbit today (April 28).

SpaceX sent another batch of Starlink satellites to orbit tonight (April 28), its second liftoff of the day.

Long-forgotten mine fields in Cambodia are being revealed in decades-old, recently declassified images from U.S. military satellites.

The first bits of data have come back from NASA's EZIE cubesat mission, which aims to solve some mysteries surrounding the "auroral electrojet" phenomena in Earth's atmosphere.

Europe's Sentinel-1 satellites captured radar images of Myanmar before and after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck on March 28, revealing significant ground movement.

March was a busy month for climate disasters in the U.S., as the nation endured tornado outbreaks, raging wildfires, and record-setting heat.

This fantastic Lego set makes a great display piece but with movable limbs, it's fun for fueling youngsters' Marvel Universe imagination and it's rarely discounted, so grab it while you can.

Using the Dark Energy Camera astronomers have found a packed stellar nursery of infant stars in the dark nebula in the 180-light-year-wide Circinus West molecular cloud.

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts.

A Venus lander launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 has been predicted to fall back to Earth some time in May.

'This really digs into two of my favorite things: where I'm from in Oklahoma, and robots and science fiction'

A newly found, huge cloud near our solar system probably won't form stars, but will rather disperse as part of a feedback cycle that regulates star formation.

Space isn't safe from money-hungry corporations, and sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds 2 will play with that idea in 2025. Here's everything we know about Obsidian's sci-fi sequel.