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Megastorms that rage across Saturn and last for centuries, shaking up the gas giant's deep atmosphere and driving ammonia rains that enrich lower layers.

On one hand, this so-called race has no discernable prize — but on the other, it could set the stage for a rich future of lunar exploration.

Space.com spoke with veteran Hollywood creature designer Neville Page on his legacy designing "Star Trek" aliens and Titan's new tribute book to his work.

The enormous waves are the result of gravitational tides dragging around stellar material.

The new moon on Aug. 15 will offer dark skies perfect for skywatchers to hunt out stunning Messier objects like the globular cluster M2, the Butterfly Cluster and the Wild Duck Cluster.

Physicists like me don't fully understand what makes up "dark matter." Deep beneath South Dakota, we're trying to change that.

How humanity responds to the first contact with intelligent alien life could determine the very fate of our species. Here's what we can learn from history.

The Blue Moon of August 2023 rises on Aug. 30, offering skywatchers a second chance to catch a supermoon alongside Saturn in the night sky.

In the wake of Hawaii's tragic wildfires, NASA experts discuss our planet's critically rising temperatures.

The finale of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season 2 feels like a lazy lurch over the finishing line after an intriguing, if mixed order, season.

Luna-25, Russia's first moon lander since 1976, beamed back images of Earth and the moon on Aug. 13 while heading toward lunar orbit.

Who let the dog out? Watch as celebrities hunt down a missing robot dog on a simulated Red Planet in Fox's reality competition series "Stars on Mars."

A century-old mystery of how galaxies shift shapes has been solved by considering "survival of the fittest" collisions between cosmic titans also revealing the Milky Way was not always a spiral.

A professional-looking, quick-to-charge power bank that's also carry-on compliant. Quickly charge three devices at once.

Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen's upcoming 'Huginn' mission to the International Space Station has gotten the stamp of approval from the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Explore some of the best Perseid meteor shower 2023 photos from around the world. The prolific shower did not disappoint.

A solar eclipse map is a helpful tool for anyone wanting to get the most out of their solar eclipse viewing experience. We explore how to read and understand them here.

Four astronauts are flying to the International Space Station on Aug. 25 from NASA, Japan, Europe and Russia. Here's some info about this new crew.

China is making lunar material collected by its Chang'e 5 moon mission available to research proposals by international scientists for the first time.

Knowing that black holes tend to have these masses could help provide a new way of measuring the expansion rate of the universe.

A new type of chemistry performed at very cold temperatures on very small particles enables quick, precise reactions.