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One month before SpaceX launches the Ax-3 astronaut mission toward the ISS, Axiom Space's president said he hopes similar missions will become less expensive in the future.

A seamount sitting on a subducting tectonic plate off the coast of Japan and plowing its way into Earth's mantle may be at the root of several magnitude 7 earthquakes in the past 40 years.

Ireland has joined the space club with the launch of Eirsat-1, a tiny brick-sized satellite with a big future.

Rare but explosive solar eruptions may cause train signals to switch the wrong way, affecting train safety, a new study finds.

Despite the seemingly boundless expanse of the universe, which implies there’s potential for abundant life, the vast distances between stars render the search akin to locating a needle in a cosmic haystack.

While hunting for dark matter, astronomers accidentally discovered the first known stellar stream stretching between galaxies. The trail of stars is also the longest ever seen.

By the looks of the new cast photograph, everyone in "Star Trek: Discovery" has returned for this, the fifth and final season.

The video game "Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora" presents a stunning recreation of Pandora as seen in the movies. But how does it expand on what we already know?

What happens when emotional support pets have to rescue their owners? Find out in Boom! Studios' "Man's Best" comic book miniseries arriving in 2024.

Blue Origin plans to end its 15-month spaceflight hiatus with an uncrewed mission of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on Dec. 18.

The new moon of December 2023 offers skywatchers dark skies for catching the Geminid meteor shower, one of the year's best celestial spectacles.

A fifth group of three Yaogan-39 satellites launched over the weekend, on a mission that marked the 500th liftoff for China's Long March family of rockets.

Just over a year ago, NASA's Artemis 1 Orion capsule returned to Earth in a blaze of glory, which the spacecraft captured on video.

Voyager 1 is currently unable to transmit any scientific or systems data back to Earth. The 46-year-old NASA spacecraft is capable of receiving commands, but a problem seems to have arisen with the probe's computers.

SpaceX plans to launch 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites on Tuesday night (Dec. 12), possibly just hours after the launch of the U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane.

A retrospective of "Star Trek: Insurrection" on the occasion of its 25th anniversary

A quantum experiment, based on a Nobel Prize work, is mounted outside the International Space Station. The new Nobel laureate called the ISS to talk about it all.

SpaceX scrubbed Monday's (Dec. 11) planned Falcon Heavy launch of the US military's X-37B space plane, citing a 'ground side issue.'

A strange type of glass that was discovered in 1933 in the Libyan desert may come from a meteorite, an analysis shows, but impact crater is still missing.

Mirroring the Earth's Anthropocene, which describes the age in which humans altered our planet, scientists argue moon advancements place us in a Lunar Anthropocene.

A glitch with a dress rehearsal will push off Vulcan Centaur's 1st launch to the beginning of 2024, United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno said.