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May the force be with you! Here's our rundown of the best Star Wars games of all time.

Virgin Galactic's Unity 25 spaceflight will see eight crew members work to bring the company back to space. See the flight and training in photos.

An unusual green meteor recently exploded as it plummeted through the sky over Australia, giving off a brilliant flash of light that could be seen for miles.

Satellites watched as the powerful Super Typhoon Mawar made its way across the Pacific Ocean toward the U.S. island territory of Guam on May 24.

Intense solar storms may have delivered Earth its earliest building blocks of life, new research suggests.

Virgin Galactic will launch its first spaceflight in two years on its reusable space plane Unity on Thursday (May 25), but exactly when the launch takes place will depend on what time its carrier plane takes off.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is gearing up for a critical test firing of its next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket, and it could happen as soon as this week.

A European Mars orbiter beamed a coded message to Earth today (May 24), kicking off a weeks-long project designed to help us prep for a real signal from E.T.

Virgin Galactic is readying to send six people to suborbital space Thursday morning (May 25), on the company's final test flight before starting commercial operations.

The crew of Axiom Space's second private mission to the International Space Station arrived at the orbiting lab on Monday (May 22) to a warm welcome from the station's current crew.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has altered its course ahead of visiting its first asteroid target in Nov. 2023 on its way to become the first probe to visit the Trojan asteroids that orbit Jupiter.

This $500 price drop is the biggest saving on the legendary Nikon D850 we've seen all year.

California-based Virgin Orbit said it will permanently cease operations after selling key assets to Rocket Lab, Stratolaunch and Launcher.

A newly discovered supernova can be watched as it develops in real-time online and for free. The livestream will begin at 6:00 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) on Thursday, May 25.

Once thought to be drab and inert, Uranus' atmosphere is gradually revealing how storm-ridden it really is.

NASA announced the winners of phase two of the Deep Space Food Challenge, an initiative to design new food production technologies that could be used by astronauts on extended voyages.

The second set of NASA's TROPICS cubesats will launch on their hurricane-studying mission at midnight EDT on Thursday (May 25), and you can watch the action live.

As the original trilogy closer turns 40, 'Return of the Jedi' can still hold its own against almost everything that followed.

Data from the Hubble Space Telescope about the nearby M4 globular cluster suggests a rare midsize black hole may be lurking at its center.

Eight people will fly on Virgin Galactic's upcoming test mission. Six of them will go to suborbital space, and the other two will pilot the carrier aircraft to start the journey.

A robotic Russian cargo craft will launch toward the International Space Station on Wednesday (May 24), and you can watch the liftoff live.