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Lightsabers are the most iconic Star Wars weapons, but their mechanics and complete history aren’t crystal clear. Here’s everything you need to know about them.

NASA held a flag-raising ceremony on Thursday (June 15) to recognize the Juneteenth holiday.

Europe's Mercury probe BepiColombo will take a close look at its target planet on Monday(June 19), and we can expect some exciting new images soon after that.

The crescent moon joins Mars, Venus and some of the brightest stars to kick off the summer 2024 skywatching season.

The U.S. Space Force recently opened the COSMIC center, a new office aimed at taking advantage of a thriving commercial space industry.

The way humans pump groundwater from the planet's interior has changed Earth's tilt by 31.5 inches (80 centimeters) between 1993 and 2010.

Space.com experienced the Tron: Lightcycle Run ride at Walt Disney World. Here's what you can expect from this high-speed cyberpunk adventure.

Sally Ride's journey to space not only continues to inspire young students 4 decades later, but shows the value of diversity and respect, a woman engineering dean argues.

SpaceX will launch an Indonesian communications satellite to orbit and land the returning rocket at sea this evening (June 18), and you can watch it live.

A Long March 2D rocket lifted off from China on June 15, carrying 41 satellites to orbit. China's previous single-launch record, set just a few days earlier, was 26 satellites.

NASA's Juno spacecraft snapped a photo of a lightning strike high in the swirling clouds near Jupiter's north pole.

After months of warning, experts have confirmed that the ocean-warming event El Niño is here and will gradually strengthen into the winter, with a potential worldwide climate impact.

A new parachute system could reduce the risk posed by Chinese satellite launches from inland spaceports.

New research suggests our planet was born from a rapid accumulation of tiny pebbles and icy fragments in just a few million years.

Saturn enters retrograde on June 17, shifting from its usual eastward movement to travel westwards through the constellations until early November.

The new moon phase officially occurs on June 18 at 12:38 a.m. EDT (0438 GMT). During this phase, the moon will not be visible, making it a great night for skywatching.

A new viral video by a NASA astrobiologist explains the space agency's efforts to find out whether we are alone in the universe.

The core of Jupiter's ocean moon Europa might have formed billions of years after the rest of it did, if indeed it has formed at all, a new study finds.

Two of six newly discovered runaway stars launched by supernovas have broken the record for the fastest objects of this type ever discovered.

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider are closing in on an explanation for why we live in a universe of matter and not antimatter.

United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi shared a video clip from the International Space Station of Cyclone Biparjoy swirling over the Arabian Sea.