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Space sustainability company Astroscale has launched a free computer game that allows players to test their space debris catching skills in a simulation based on the company's real mission.

New research using Apollo mission samples has determined that the impact of meteorites on the lunar surface is primarily responsible for generating the moon's thin and nebulous atmosphere.

Canadarm2 launched in 2001 before companies made their own cargo craft. Now well-versed in the technique, the Canadian robot arm will catch Cygnus no earlier than Aug. 5.

SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Friday (Aug. 2), continuing the company's bounceback from a July 11 failure.

The ninth crew rotation for SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to lift off on Aug. 18 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

There is a moment when building Lego's new NASA-inspired set that the assembly goes from looking like plastic bricks to being a moon buggy. Then you realize you're not even a quarter of the way done.

We closely examine Darth Plagueis and Yoda's cameos in the finale of 'The Acolyte' and try to figure out how they might be used in the future.

Astronomers have discovered that Saturn has thrown a newly found comet on its way out of the solar system. Comet A117uUD is expected to go interstellar at 6,700 mph.

It sounds like science fiction, but many scientists believe editing the human genome is key to our advancement across the solar system.

A high-resolution visualization from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio shows global carbon dioxide emissions from January to March 2020.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope will look all the way back to cosmic dawn 400 million years after the Big Bang to discover how the universe fundamentally changed at this crucial point in its history.

Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider have failed to turn up potential dark matter candidates, but could galaxy cluster smashes be used as cosmic dark matter colliders?

Don't know your Claptrap from your Handsome Jack? Here's everything you need to know about the Borderlands video games before seeing the movie.

A new study reveals waves of magnetism within the sun could help explain why the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, is hundreds of times hotter than its surface.

A new Hubble Telescope image shines a spotlight on a classic spiral galaxy named NGC 3430.

Astroscale's ADRAS-J space debris inspecting mission completed a series of fly-around maneuvers of its target space junk, capturing stunning footage of a dead rocket stage in orbit.

As we make the transition from July into August, Venus has finally begun climbing up out of the sunset glow in earnest and is now about to reclaim its role as the brilliant Evening Star.

A cannibal coronal mass ejection triggered impressive northern lights displays across the US and Canada. We've rounded up some of the best photos here.

A chemical mystery lurks in the laboratory of Tycho Brahe, one of the most famous astronomers of all time. Scientists found tungsten in Brahe's lab, and they're not sure how it got there.

Although Antarctica is far away, and changing conditions there may seem distant, the changes can have a profound effect for us all.

An exclusive interview with Michael Humphreys, the VFX supervisor for "A Quiet Place: Day One."