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Air pollution from re-entering satellites is a potential environmental disaster that evades Earth-based laws, experts say.

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA's highly anticipated Europa Clipper astrobiology mission on Oct. 10, and you can watch the action live.

Zebrafish aboard China's Tiangong space station are doing well in orbit, according to an update on the experiments.

College students are making "waves" with a discovery they made during the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 14, 2023.

The Celestron 70mm Travel Scope is currently 18% off ahead of Amazon's Big Deal Days and is ideal for beginners.

Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, TESS, astronomers and citizen scientists have discovered a record-breaking system of three tightly bound stars that could fit between the sun and Mercury.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a distant cosmic explosion that erupted in the early universe called "supernova Hope" that could help resolve lingering "Hubble trouble."

Aurora chasers are on high alert for possible geomagnetic storm conditions Oct.3 through Oct. 5 with northern lights possible as far south as Illinois and Oregon.

The ISS has been dealing with a leak in its Russian segment since 2019. As NASA and Roscosmos work to solve it, a new report says the leak is a primary 'safety risk' to operations.

Neil Armstrong is perhaps best known for saying 12 words on July 20, 1969: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." But there's more to his record, as his alma mater can attest.

On Oct. 2, an annular solar eclipse turned the sun into an impressive "ring of fire." Here are some of the best photos of the dramatic display.

On Oct. 3, the sun released the most powerful solar flare this solar cycle, a colossal X9.05 eruption — and it's heading for Earth.

The secrets of Mercury's strange magnetic bubble are gradually being unlocked by the BepiColombo spacecraft as it makes its rapid flybys of the world.

On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "mini-moon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days, but is too small to be visible to amateur skywatchers.

The latest photo of Curiosity's wheels shows new — but not debilitating — damage.

United Launch Alliance is set to launch the second test flight of its Vulcan Centaur rocket on Friday morning (Oct. 4), and you can watch the action live online.

It'll be about six months before skywatchers are treated to another solar eclipse — during which only part of the sun will be obscured from view.

United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan Centaur rocket is 'go' for its second-ever liftoff, a test flight scheduled to launch on Friday morning (Oct. 4).

On Wednesday (Oct. 2), an annular eclipse swept over the Pacific Ocean, Chile, and Argentina, wowing skywatchers who were on hand to catch the "ring of fire" in all of its glory.

NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson were expected to launch on SpaceX's Crew-9 mission on Sept. 28. Still on Earth, they spoke about how they're feeling.

The potential detection of "Dyson spheres" indicating advanced alien civilizations may actually be supermassive black hole powerful galaxies obscured by dusty shrouds called "hot DOGs."