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A rapidly spreading wildfire burns through part of the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies as satellites track its growth and movement.

In a global first, scientists working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean have found that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen, dubbed "dark oxygen."

The Euclid and XMM-Newton missions have combined to show the hidden, hot gas that fills an immense galaxy cluster 2.7 billion light-years away.

Citizen scientists have discovered what may be a brown dwarf racing through the cosmos at around 1.2 million miles per hour. Now astronomers want to know what launched it.

Boeing's Starliner does not have a landing date yet, but the troubleshooting is making progress. Engineers plan a "hot fire" test this weekend to see how the spacecraft does in orbit.

Starting this October, Marvel's core Star Wars line will move past Return of the Jedi and into a new era of storytelling set before The Mandalorian.

Blue Origin has announced the six crewmembers for its next space tourism flight. One of them will become the youngest woman to cross the Kármán line.

China has test-fired a new engine for its planned Long March 10 rocket, which is designed to take astronauts to the moon.

Large amounts of space debris and satellite megaconstellations in low Earth orbit are creating "an unsustainable environment in the long-term," according to a new report from the European Space Agency.

Lionsgate releases the final trailer for its new sci-fi adventure feature, "Borderlands," which arrives in theaters on Aug. 9, 2024.

NASA and Boeing will provide an update about the Starliner capsule's ongoing astronaut mission today (July 24), and you can watch it live.

Using methods typically applied to the study of galaxies, researchers have been able to reliably spot the difference between real faces and deepfakes.

A new trailer for Disney+ and Disney Jr.'s kid-centric "Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures."

Vivid clouds swirl across Jupiter's skies like colorful brushstrokes in a new photo from NASA's Juno spacecraft.

China's Shenzhou 18 mission staged an emergency drill recently to boost preparedness aboard the country's Tiangong space station.

Using data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists have determined that the solar system's tiniest planet, Mercury, hides a not-so-tiny secret: a 10-mile-thick mantle of diamond.

A new video shows how a tiny rover on China's ambitious Chang'e 6 mission used AI to snap an epic shot on the far side of the moon.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated a super-Jupiter that is one of the coldest exoplanets ever directly imaged.

Artemis 2's core stage is near its launch site in Florida after sailing more than 900 miles from New Orleans. The rocket is scheduled to send NASA astronauts around the moon in 2025.

Infrared telescopes scanning the skies during the day watched as Boeing's first crewed Starliner spacecraft approached the International Space Station on June 6, 2024.

Almost eight years after its original release, No Man's Sky continues to evolve, and its most recent (free) update is changing its universe for the better.