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Six years after the exploration game debuted, No Man's Sky is on the hunt for a larger fan base and has a few new features to reel new and returning players back to its massive universe.

The timeline below covers major vehicle and crew activities during the Crew-5 countdown and rendezvous with the International Space Station. All times assume liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 12:00:57 p.m. EDT (1600:57 GMT) on Oct. 5. All times in Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4).

Four of the first science-quality images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have received a boost from X-ray vision.

The Draconid meteor shower peaks around Oct. 8 and Oct. 9. Here we explore what the Draconids are, where they are found and how you can see them.

The Encalife Ambience Galaxy Star Projector is now less than $60 for a huge discount of 50% off and features in our best star projectors guide.

The upcoming Hunter's Moon reminds us of the many ways we can enjoy observing our humble satellite.

Image: Interacting galaxies VV 191 (Webb and Hubble composite image)

A robotic arm softened up metal in space in an aim to address the growing space debris problem.

Live coverage of the countdown and flight of SpaceX’s Crew-5 mission carrying NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina on a flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.

Across the United States, the moon and Saturn will appear to be close neighbors for a good portion of the night.

Space applications, technologies and data are ready to accelerate the green transformation of the energy industry.

A new astronaut photo shows the Carrizozo Malpaís lava flow in New Mexico in stunning detail.

Mars may be a freeze-dried planet now, but once, it was supposedly (almost) another Earth, with flowing water that froze into hulking mountains of ice.

NASA's Perseverance rover snagged its 13th rock sample recently, part of a collection that could come to Earth as early as 2033.

United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket climbs off pad 41 Tuesday at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with the SES 20 and SES 21 television broadcasting satellites. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography

Running a few days late after a delay caused by Hurricane Ian, an Atlas 5 rocket built by United Launch Alliance thundered off a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Tuesday and soared to an altitude of nearly 22,000 miles to deploy two commercial television broadcasting satellites for the commercial operator SES.

Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina during training at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX

Cosmonaut Anna Kikina will become the first Russian crew member to launch on a U.S. spacecraft since 2002 when she straps into a seat aboard SpaceX’s Dragon Endurance capsule Wednesday for a flight to the International Space Station, opening a new chapter in the U.S.-Russian partnership in orbit that a senior Russian space agency official hopes can be extended past the current end date of 2024, despite souring relations on Earth.

SpaceX has delayed the liftoff of its next Starlink satellite fleet in order to launch four Crew-5 astronauts for NASA on Oct. 5.

Elon Musk has proposed proceeding with his purchase of Twitter at the original price of $54.20 per share, according to media reports.

Watch what the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has observed (galaxies galore and swarms of asteroids) and then see what goes on behind the scenes.

China’s human spaceflight agency has begun the search for a new batch of astronauts to join its ranks as the country moves to complete its orbiting space station.