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SpaceX will launch another big batch of its Starlink broadband satellites and land a rocket on a ship at sea Thursday (Oct. 27), and you can watch it live.

Uranus is a strange world, knocked on its side and with a lopsided magnetic field. Its moons may be even stranger.

Leiden University and the European Southern Observatory have cut ties with the astronomer.

Marvel Studios releases the first trailer for "The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special."

Is it two galaxies, or two star clusters? Astronomers aren't yet sure what the James Webb Space Telescope spotted in an image of the early universe.

Ed Stone has retired as the project scientist of NASA's Voyager mission, which sent twin probes on a historic "grand tour" of the solar system's giant planets and, much later, out to interstellar space.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft took some amazing photos of Earth and the moon as it prepares to slingshot towards Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

The partial solar eclipse on Oct. 25 delighted skywatchers around the world with a stunning display. We have rounded up some of the best photos here.

The detection of a toxin that makes humans and pigs vomit could solve the lingering 100-year-old mystery surrounding the pristine Martian meteorite nicknamed "Lafayette."

"The Last Man on the Moon" is returning for the 50th anniversary of NASA's last lunar landing. The filmmakers behind the award-winning documentary have announced a new edition focusing on Apollo 17.

The Orionid meteor shower lit up the skies around the world in 2022, and luckily many of our readers were able to catch wonderful images of the "shooting stars."

The BioLite HeadLamp 425 is a USB-C rechargeable, no slip, no bounce headlamp full of features for astrophotographers.

Astronomers have captured the shadow of the space rock Didymos, target of NASA's asteroid-smashing mission, as it passed in front of distant stars.

This telescope deal gives 27% discount on Celestron's easy-to-use refractor and save over $40.

A private space mission will study how solar flares generated by nearby stars can affect habitability of exoplanets in their orbit.

Explore Jupiter's 57 official moons including the infamous Galilean satellites and the largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede.

Watch all the Predator movies in order, both chronological and release. From Predator to Prey, and including the Alien vs. Predator crossovers.

A Long March 5B heavy-lift rocket rolled out to the pad at Wenchang spaceport on Hainan island early Tuesday (Oct. 25) ahead of a launch expected on or around Oct. 31.

A newly processed image, comprising 41 observations by NASA's retired Cassini mission, provides insights into the origins of Saturn's rings.

The Orionid meteor shower lit up the skies around the world in 2022, and luckily many of our readers were able to catch wonderful images of the "shooting stars."

Steve Squyres, the principal investigator of the Opportunity mission, could have switched to Saturn. But learning about water on Mars kept him going on one mission for 30 years.