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Humanity's exploration of Mars should be organized around the search for signs of past or present Red Planet life, according to a new report from the U.S. National Academies.

Your guide to January’s full Wolf Moon, from peak times to skywatching highlights.

Two Chinese astronauts installed more debris shielding on the Tiangong space station and assessed the damage to the attached Shenzhou 20 spacecraft during a spacewalk on Tuesday (Dec. 9).

"This is certainly an outburst unlike any other we've seen in the past 50 years."

SpaceX will launch a secret payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office today (Dec. 9), and you can watch the action live.

Aetherflux has focused its efforts on space-based solar power, with the goal of "building an American power grid in space."

Ahead of Terminator 2D: NO FATE, we're going back in time to find some Terminator games that don't suck. Don't worry, we'll be back!

New simulations suggest TRAPPIST-1e's possible methane atmosphere may be a false signal from its star, raising fresh questions about the planet’s habitability.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. It was the record 32nd flight of the Falcon's first stage.

Check out the first findings from the Subaru Telescope.

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky landed on Russia's Soyuz MS-27 on Dec. 9, 2025, after 245 days on the International Space Station.

This rare phenomenon is also called the green rim and it actually happens at every sunset.

Private billionaire SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman appeared before a Senate committee Dec. 3 for consideration as NASA administrator. Here are 5 big takeaways from the hearing.

…Except for Mab, which is even weirder than expected.

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois as an incoming coronal mass ejection is expected to slam into Earth.

The supermoon shines brighter and bolder than usual—discover which dazzling lunar personality matches you.

The U.S. Senate will hold its second hearing to consider billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman's nomination for NASA chief on Wednesday (Dec. 3), and you can watch the action live.

Frequent flares from the nearby star TRAPPIST-1 could offer new clues in the search for habitable planets beyond Earth.

"It’s kind of a jigsaw puzzle where all the different pieces are moving."

NASA's Jonny Kim and two cosmonauts are scheduled to leave the International Space Station tonight (Dec. 8), and you can watch their homecoming live.

The powerful X1.1 solar flare from sunspot region 4298 sparked strong radio blackouts on the sunlit portion of Earth at the time of eruption.