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The concept for a flying, wing-heavy drone called MAGGIE could one day show us an entirely new perspective on Mars.

The James Webb Space Telescope will soon investigate stunning light shows from Uranus and Saturn as two projects look at the auroras of these planets to discover the processes that make them tick.

As we prepare for the upcoming solar eclipse on April 8, we take a look at some famous incidents of viewing total eclipses near the edge of totality.

A large swirl of white light that temporarily outshone vibrant auroras in the Arctic last week was triggered by the death throes of a SpaceX rocket that deployed more than 50 satellites into space.

There's a growing and passionate call for preserving radio silence on the far side of the moon in order to protect the possibility of conducting valuable radio astronomy.

SpaceX hopes to launch the fourth test flight of its Starship megarocket just six weeks or so from now, according to the company's president and COO.

To the unaided human eye, the night sky is resplendent with over 9,000 individual points of light, but that perspective covers only a bare fraction of the universe.

Astronomers have discovered a treasure trove of 662 new galactic superclusters, the most prominent of which, the Einasto Supercluster, contains a staggering mass equivalent to 26 quadrillion suns.

NASA engineers just delivered a Mars instrument to Japan for a future mission. New NASA astronaut Andre Douglas helped get the Martian Moons Exploration mission ready for liftoff.

The penultimate episode of 'Constellation' runs in circles before finding its way towards an emotional and satisfying ending.

This versatile beginner's telescope is suitable for astronomy and wildlife viewing. It has nice-quality traditional optics but is limited by its tripod and mount.

Rocket Lab will launch a mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office early Thursday morning (March 21), and you can watch the action live.

The forthcoming total solar eclipse promises to be the most watched and imaged for decades.

A new gameplay trailer for the upcoming indie real-time strategy game "Falling Frontier," which tasks players with managing a fleet of starships throughout a solar system.

SpaceX has given us an astronaut's-eye view of the company's new emergency-escape slide in action at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

A new study suggests that stars may chomp on planets way more often than you'd expect.

China launched a relay satellite towards the moon atop a Long March 8 rocket this week after a previous launch this month failed to reach lunar orbit.

As the total solar eclipse on April 8 approaches, we take a look at some alternative methods of viewing the eclipse.

Disney and Lucasfilm have finally unveiled the first-ever public trailer for the upcoming Disney Plus series "Star Wars: The Acolyte."

Nearly 1.3 million quasars are included in a vast cosmic map, with the most distant having existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang.

With the help of artificial intelligence, amateur scientists have discovered more than 400,000 new galaxies.