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Rocket Lab is scheduled to launch four "DiskSats" for the U.S. Space Force at midnight on Thursday (Dec. 18), and you can watch the action live.

The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just notched a big milestone, snapping its 100,000th photo of the Red Planet.

Back in December 2015, the Force awakened in Star Wars, but it quickly went back to sleep.

SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets, each carrying Starlink satellites, from Kennedy Space Cener in Florida and Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Dec. 17, 2025.

"We're not certain if having widespread liquid pockets instead of a global ocean makes Titan more or less habitable."

The livestream will begin at 11 p.m. EST Dec. 18 (0400 GMT on Dec. 19), weather permitting.

We've rounded up the best Fallout gifts across the wasteland ahead of season two of the hit TV show, available to stream this month.

The Soyuz launched on Nov. 27, 2025 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The California startup Vast has opened a call for scientific research aboard its Haven-1 private space station, which is set to launch atop a SpaceX rocket next year.

Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025: Your daily feed for the holiday flyby of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS by Earth.

Dr. Larry Denneau of the University of Hawaii is nothing like your typical astronomer.

New measurements demonstrate that smoke particles in the upper atmosphere are twice the size of lower-altitude ones.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured solar material looping back to the sun, revealing how it recycles magnetic energy and shapes future solar storms.

Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor star in Universal Pictures' eerie alien invasion project coming next summer.

NASA still hasn't heard from its MAVEN Mars orbiter, and the spacecraft appears to be spinning in an odd way as well.

Europe's Ariane 6 rocket is poised to launch a pair of Galileo satellites just after midnight on Wednesday (Dec. 17), adding to the continent's geopositioning constellation.

A Japanese H3 rocket will launch the Michibiki 5 navigation satellite to orbit tonight (Dec. 16), and you can watch the action live.

Okey Dokey! Prime Video's post-apocalyptic adventure heads for New Vegas starting tonight!

Stuck for a small gift for a skywatcher? From compact binoculars to power banks and SD cards, we've rounded up the ideal sub-$100 stocking stuffers.

The direction, distance and motion of the comet through the sky during its closest approach could have made it seem like it was hovering over Bethlehem when Jesus was said to have been born.

Amazon and Bethesda return to the Wasteland with a second Fallout season that's all about New Vegas and not letting businessmen and fanatics run the world.