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Kombucha cultures riding on the ISS' exterior for 18 months proved resilient to the dangers of outer space.

New electronic devices designed to power antennas of the world's largest radio telescope are so quiet that they'll cause less disturbance than a mobile phone on the moon.

China launched a new classified Yaogan satellite on Sunday (Sept. 10), continuing the country’s recent rapid launch rate.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that an exoplanet around twice the size of Earth that is already suspected of possessing a liquid water ocean has carbon-based molecules in its atmosphere.

Check out a new trailer for Hulu's new alien invasion thriller, 'No One Will Save You.'

China is looking for names for two spacecraft which will deliver astronauts to the surface of the moon.

Celia Rose Gooding reflects on her "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" role as a young Lt. Nyota Uhura in this exclusive excerpt from "Star Trek Explorer" magazine.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will see a sample of an asteroid return to Earth on Sept. 24. Here's how the mission's head scientist feels about the chances of success.

The builders of star trackers need to test their tools before launching them aboard satellites. And that's where star simulators come in handy.

A specific lubricant seems to be a promising solution to mitigate microbial biofilms onboard ISS.

A small, spherical robot will roll and walk across the lunar surface thanks to some children's toy technologies.

Frank Rubio didn't set out to break a record, but today on the International Space Station, he will do just that. Rubio, a NASA astronaut, will have flown the longest mission in U.S. history.

A reanalysis of Apollo 17 seismic data has revealed that the Apollo 17 lunar lander base is creating its own moonquakes.

Felix & Paul Studios announces the release of the VR space trilogy, "Space Explorers: Blue Marble"

A new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a glittering globular cluster deep in our Milky Way galaxy.

European astronaut Andreas Mogensen captured incredible footage of lightning strikes during just 10 days in space in 2015. He plans a deeper study during his new six-month stay on the International Space Station, with a new camera.

India's Chandrayaan-3 moon lander and rover are facing their first lunar night. Their chances of waking up at dawn whittle down to luck.

The United States Space Force has unveiled a concise new mission statement after the service's top officer criticized the previous statement as 'long and cumbersome.'

One researcher hypothesizes that experiments carried out by NASA's Viking landers in 1976 could have inadvertently killed microbes living in Martian rocks. Other experts are skeptical.

The Nightfox 100V is a good budget pair of digital night vision binoculars but it takes a bunch of batteries to power it.

The possible moonquake was detected by India's Chandrayaan-3 mission on its third day on the lunar surface.