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It was on Independence Day 25 years ago that a little rover named after a Civil War abolitionist parachuted and tumbled to the Red Planet's surface on airbags.

The 55-pound (25 kilograms) CAPSTONE moon probe ceased communicating with its handlers shortly after it deployed successfully from Rocket Lab's Photon spacecraft bus yesterday (July 4).

The James Webb Space Telescope will investigate a stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula, promising to reveal the earliest stages of star formation.

"For All Mankind" is heading to Mars by way of San Diego Comic Con. Between a pair of panels and a set of mission patches, the Apple TV+ alternate space history series will be well represented.

The eVscope 2 telescope is a telescope and astrocamera-in-one that is easy to use, automatically navigates to night sky objects and is easily controlled via an app.

Luke's Landspeeder is one of the best (and most reasonably-priced) UCS Lego sets of recent years.

As Australia's space program begins to take off, parabolic flights like these will be in high demand.

Switched back on for its third observing run, the LHC will chase down sterile neutrinos, dark matter and deviations from the Standard Model of particle physics.

The newly released image was part of a 2006 survey to learn more about stellar populations in the galaxy.

Amazon Prime Day runs from Tuesday July 12 to Wednesday July 13 but how do you know what to look for in a telescope deal?

Everyone onboard the Orville faces some tough decisions this week, not least of whom is young Topa

Data from NASA's Cassini mission revealed rare, elliptical craters on Saturn's moons Tethys and Dione, which may help researchers better understand the satellites' age and formation.

Writer/artist Liam Sharp delivers his fantastic new sci-fi series for Image Comics, "Starhenge."

Following two years of upgrades, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is almost ready for its next operating run, which is set to begin in March 2023.

Save up to $380 on some top-quality 3D printers but you'll have to hurry as these deals end July 10.

Researchers have discovered tiny, never-before-seen carbon crystals in meteorite dust left over from the explosion of the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has selected candidates for its next round of space missions, which are projected to launch between 2026 and 2030.

The blobs are irregular groups of young blue stars thought to have formed in a galactic collision that scientists liken to a belly flop.

Explore the eight (or nine) planets of the solar system in order from nearest to the sun and discover the many wonders of our solar system along the way.

Here's where to watch Independence Day on the day itself.

Solar eclipses are one of nature's most spectacular events. Here we explore what they are and the different types of solar eclipses.