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A review of Netflix's new "The Man Who Loved UFOs," a film exploring a 1986 flying saucer hoax that captured the attention of a nation.

A new design competition, dubbed Project Hyperion, is calling for submissions for the design of a crewed interstellar generation ship.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe swoops in for its seventh and final swing past Venus ahead of its history-making encounter with the sun on Christmas Eve.

An old galaxy reveals clusters of young stars that have formed in an unusually synchronized fashion, challenging the idea that star formation declines as galaxies age.

In a rare show of openness about the X-37B, Boeing Space released a video detailing how the space plane's aerobraking maneuvers help change the spacecraft's orbit.

India plans to launch astronauts to Earth orbit no sooner than 2026, roughly a year past the previously known timeline, following a series of uncrewed flight tests slated to begin in December.

Dragon is scheduled to arrive at 10:15 a.m. EST.

Monday evening (Nov. 4), the night before Election Day, will bring a lovely celestial display involving the two brightest objects in the nighttime sky: the moon and Venus.

Liftoff is scheduled for 9:29 p.m. ET today (Nov. 4).

SpaceX scrubbed a planned launch of 23 Starlink satellites on Sunday (Nov. 3) due to a helium issue in the first stage of the company's Falcon 9 rocket.

Mars' global magnetic field may have hung around for 200 million years longer than scientists had thought, possibly giving life a longer window to take hold on the Red Planet.

With both Alien and Predator back in action, here's what we can learn from their first big-screen crossover two decades ago.

Don't miss the Taurid meteor shower peak with colorful fireballs and shooting stars this week

What was Kylo Ren up to between "The Last Jedi" and "The Rise of Skywalker?" Marvel's new comic book series has the answers.

Jupiter has dozens of moons. Four of them in particular are of interest to planetary scientists.

Microgravity makes water do weird and wonderful things. NASA astronaut Don Pettit took advantage of that fact to create a colorful ball that resembles Jupiter.

There are four Americans currently living in space, and each has had the opportunity to add their voice to the more than 160 million other Americans able to participate in the 2024 Presidential election.

Japan launched the Kirameki 3 military communications satellite Monday morning (Nov. 4), on the fourth-ever flight of the country's H3 rocket.

Rocket Lab plans to launch a mission for a "confidential commercial customer" early Tuesday morning (Nov. 5), and you can watch the action live.

China's Shenzhou 18 crew have returned home after more than six months in space.

We live in a golden age for learning about the universe. Our most powerful telescopes have revealed that the cosmos is surprisingly simple on the largest visible scales.