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Image: Juice’s first taste of science from space

This rechargeable star projector emits bright, colorful and sharp imagery that gives the best star projectors we've tested a run for their money.

It's Alien Day 2023, and to celebrate the arrival of the xenomorphs on Earth, Marvel Comics has released a freshly spawned "Alien" comic book title.

When one thinks of the damage that climate change is doing, it’s probable that what comes to mind is a vision of huge lumps of ice dropping off one of the polar ice sheets and crashing into the ocean. While Greenland and Antarctica are losing masses of ice, so too are most of the glaciers around the world, but it’s tricky to measure how much ice they are shedding.

SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will launch for the sixth time ever today (April 26), and you can watch the action live.

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the Starlink 3-5 mission with 46 Starlink internet satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

"It's Quieter in the Twilight" spotlights the engineers still on the job for NASA's Voyager mission, whose twin probes launched in 1977.

After a strong start, Star Trek: Discovery lost its way when it relocated to the 32nd century. Here’s how it can get back on course.

Moon astronauts will touch down on the surface in 2025 or so using SpaceX's Starship. NASA officials are sharing crew information with SpaceX to get ready for Artemis 3.

A massive, cold clump of material in the heart of the "Dragon cloud" is ready to form a single giant star, and astronomers got a rare glimpse of the event.

The European Space Agency is currently looking for a new Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications and new Director of Internal Services to join its executive board and support the Director General, with responsibility for relevant ESA activities and overall objectives.

Executives from ispace (lower left) watch animation of the Hakuto-R landing sequence Tuesday in Tokyo. Credit: ispace

A small spacecraft attempting to become the first privately-funded probe to accomplish a controlled landing on the moon likely fell to the lunar surface after running out of fuel Tuesday, according to the Japanese company ispace, which managed the mission.

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket for the ViaSat 3 Americas mission inside the hangar at Launch Complex 39A. The three Falcon Heavy boosters will be powered by 27 kerosene-fueled Merlin engines. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX rolled a Falcon Heavy rocket back to its launch pad in Florida Tuesday night for liftoff Wednesday with a high-power Viasat broadband satellite, following an eight-day delay for a launch vehicle engine swap.

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity captured an incredible aerial photo of the Perseverance rover amidst the desolate Red Planet plains on April 22, 2023.

NASA has spent several years focusing on diversity and inclusion, but the agency agrees with results of a recent audit showing that more improvement is needed.

The Pillars of Creation is a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the Eagle Nebula, a star-forming region located in the constellation Serpens. The image shows a towering column of gas and dust, over 7,000 light-years away from Earth, that is being sculpted by the intense radiation and winds from nearby young stars.

The U.S. government has published an updated action plan for how to deal with potentially dangerous asteroids.

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope revealed the chemical composition of dusty planet-birthing disks of material around distant stars.

The Hakuto R lander, built by Tokyo-based iSpace, was to be a commercial mission to the Moon, but it has yet to phone home on landing day.