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The moon will be half illuminated by the sun on Tuesday, Aug. 8, during its last quarter phase, exactly midway between the completely lit full moon and the fully dark new moon.

A lightweight version of the International Space Station's robotic arm will help Astroscale remove decades-old space junk from Earth's orbit in the first mission of its kind.

China has added a new satellite to its fleet of meteorological spacecraft.

SpaceX plans to launch 15 more of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (Aug. 7), and you can watch the action live.

The writer's strike is now beginning to impact conventions and organized events, which is a damn shame

Boeing has delayed the first-ever astronaut launch of its Starliner capsule to March 2024 at the earliest as it continues to work several issues.

Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers on the genesis of 'Subspace Rhapsody,' a musical episode of 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.'

Paramount+ releases a new featurette for "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'" incredible crossover

Being a fan of "Strange New Worlds" at the moment feels a little like being at the end of long piece of emotional elastic

Scientists have mapped the fiery descent of the Aeolus spacecraft back to Earth from its reentry over Antarctica to its wrekage strewn path over the Atlantic.

The world's largest single-dish radio telescope can be a pain to maintain, so Chinese astronomers are using smart robots to make the job easier.

Mission scientists and engineers took on the tricky task of targeting a remote stretch of the Atlantic Ocean for the reentry of Europe's Aeolus satellite.

Artemis 2's moon astronauts will need a big team of people to bring them home after arriving on Earth. The ambitious goal: To bring the astronauts from spacecraft to med bay in 2 hours.

India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander has returned images from the moon after entering orbit around our nearest neighbor.

USB-C charging, a red LED, simple operation and a reflective headband make this affordable headlamp a great choice for skywatchers.

NASA announced the end of the LunaH-Map satellite that was supposed to map ice at the south pole of the moon. While the mission missed its mark, a key instrument performed well.

A new study uses terrestrial and Martian data to investigate how river paths change depending on environmental conditions.

Chinese launch company Galactic Energy announced in late July that it used a small test vehicle propelled by a jet engine to test software for landing rockets.

The moon and Jupiter will be just under the feet of Aires the Ram, in the night sky on the evening of Monday, Aug. 7. With the right binoculars, you could see five moons at once.

The modern scientific fields of astronomy and physics stretch back for centuries, and so naturally they've accumulated a lot of interesting names for objects, ideas, and phenomena.

SpaceX fired up its huge new Starship Super Heavy booster today (Aug. 6), notching an important milestone on the path to flight.