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With many new Star Wars games in the works, Star Wars Eclipse promises to be a different type of action-adventure experience.

Western Europe's first vertical spaceport receives a launch license, paving the way for the continent's debut rocket flight next year.

Just four days after being launched on its third mission, China's mysterious reusable space plane seems to have placed six unknown objects in orbit around it.

A month after its latest liftoff, SpaceX's giant Starship rocket is getting ready to fly again.

The observations are vital for piecing together the science objectives for a future mission to Uranus.

After more than a decade of hunting for asteroids and comets, the days of NASA's NEOWISE mission are officially numbered, thanks to our increasingly active sun.

Blue Origin plans to launch its first mission since September 2022 this morning (Dec. 18), and you can watch the action live.

The moon and Saturn will have a pre-Christmas meet-up on Sunday (Dec. 17) as the two bodies make a close approach to each other in the night sky.

Gaze into the colorful remnants of a long-dead star in this image of the Veil Nebula captured by astrophotographer Miguel Claro.

We worked out how many trips each of the solar system's eight planets has taken around the sun over the past 4.6 billion years.

The Smithsonian would love to display the first vehicle to achieve powered flight on another world, but with Ingenuity still busy on Mars, the institution has accepted the next best thing.

In this battle of the mirrorless heavyweights, we're comparing three of the best cameras to help you decide which one you should spend your hard-earned cash on.

The United States Congress passed legislation that orders the release of governmental records pertaining to UFOs dating back 25 years.

A preview of the upcoming 'Star Wars' novel, 'Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss.'

On Episode 91 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod discuss the year in review with Leonard David.

The Artemis 2 moon astronauts met Dec. 14 with U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris to discuss science and other goals of the round-the-moon mission in 2024.

True Anomaly just raised $100 million in funding, which the company will use to continue developing its space security technology.

The world's most accurate space-based thermometer has suffered a mission-critical anomaly only two months after the release of its first images.

By listening to "music" played by shaking stars, astronomers could use asteroseismology as a new type of cosmic distance ruler, perfecting the 3D map of two billion stars being built by Gaia.

SpaceX is now targeting Dec. 28 for the launch of the U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane atop a Falcon Heavy rocket, after a delay of more than two weeks.