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Boeing's troubled Starliner capsule is poised to return to Earth without any crew aboard on Sept. 6, NASA announced on Thursday (Aug. 29).

Blue Origin set a new record with today's space tourism launch, sending the youngest woman beyond the 62-mile-high (100 kilometers) Kármán line.

Weather conditions at the mission's landing zones have postponed the Polaris Dawn launch, and also the FAA grounded the Falcon 9, so the crew might be waiting a minute.

Netflix's grim new 'Terminator Zero' anime series is a triumph of serious storytelling and killer robot action.

New findings could elevate SETI into an extragalactic search for life beyond Earth.

The NASA Office of Inspector General has issued a scathing report on the Mobile Launcher 2 project. ML-2 is needed to transport NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket to the launch pad.

An Egyptian dig uncovered a massive building that shows considerable evidence of astronomy observations, including a sundial and features meant to track the sun and stars.

The recently launched satellite has been watching the spread of aerosols from wildfire smoke, creating a catalog that scientists say would eventually benefit weather forecasting.

Former President Trump said he would create a Space National Guard if elected for a second term this November.

The inaugural flight of Blue Origin's New Glenn heavy-lift rocket, which will send NASA's two-satellite ESCAPADE mission toward Mars, will launch no earlier than Oct. 13.

Space tourism is controversial, and there are a multitude of reasons why.

Blue Origin will launch its eighth suborbital space tourism mission this morning (Aug. 29), and you can watch the action live.

John McFall, a Paralympian medalist in 2008 and a reserve astronaut with the European Space Agency, carried the games' official flag during opening ceremonies Aug. 28.

The FAA is requiring an investigation into the failed touchdown attempt of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket's first stage after a successful Starlink satellite launch early Wednesday morning (Aug. 28).

An early mockup of NASA's winged orbiters, Pathfinder was returned to its position atop a space shuttle propulsion "stack" at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

The SLIM moon lander survived a staggering three lunar nights before JAXA officially declared the mission to be over.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set a reusability record during a Starlink satellite launch early Wednesday morning (Aug. 28) but failed to stick its landing.

Colorado company Boom Supersonic's XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft flew for the second time ever on Monday (Aug. 26).

The magical black goo introduced in "Prometheus" is holding the Xenomorph back.

A Blue Origin rocket will launch a new private astronaut mission to suborbital space this week. Here's what time and where to watch.

A moderate G2 geomagnetic storm sparked auroras at mid-latitudes, and we've rounded up some of the best northern lights photos here.