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United Launch Alliance rolled an Atlas 5 rocket to its launch pad Friday at Cape Canaveral in preparation for liftoff before dawn Sunday on a mission to carry two U.S. Space Force technology demonstration satellites into orbit.

So much happens in Star Trek: Discovery's season 4 episode "Choose To Live" that it can be overwhelming.

The goal is to speed up solar system communications.

The only total solar eclipse of 2021 was only visible across a remote stretch of Antarctica. See photos of what scientists saw.

The Kardashev scale classifies hypothetical alien civilizations by how much energy they use.

Black holes are mysterious objects of extreme density, with such strong gravitational attraction that even light cannot escape from their grasp if it comes near enough.

The only total solar eclipse of 2021 took place under especially isolated circumstances today, sweeping over sparsely populated Antarctica in a dazzling sight.

The two-stage Atlas V is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 4:04 a.m. EDT (0904 GMT) on Sunday, carrying a mix of payloads for the U.S. Space Force. Watch it live here.

The picture book paints Edwin Hubble's biography in a way that teaches and entertains.

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with two more Galileo navigation satellites for the European Commission and the European Space Agency. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.

SpaceX has started building a pad for its Starship Mars rocket at Launch Complex 39A, part of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Elon Musk announced on Friday (Dec. 3).

The big problem might not be time zone, but accessibility of the prime Antarctic site.

The year's brightest comet is now on display in the predawn sky this week and next. Here's how to find it.

The Milky Way is our galactic home, but studying it has been notoriously difficult. Thanks to the European Gaia mission, astronomers are finally unravelling the galaxy's fascinating evolution.

A tiny galaxy orbiting at the outskirts of the Milky Way appears to have a giant black hole at its center, comparable to that of the much larger Milky Way itself, and scientists don't know why.

Early Saturday morning, a total solar eclipse will darken skies at the bottom of the world.

The International Space Station dodged a fragment of a decades-old rocket body early Friday morning, continuing a stretch of space debris threats to the orbiting laboratory.

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Atlas 5 rocket with the U.S. Space Force’s STP-3 mission, carrying two satellites hosting technology demonstration experiments to geosynchronous orbit. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.

Week in images: 29 November - 3 December 2021

Giving aliens directions to Earth might be tricky, but scientists have some ideas for how to do it.

Before NASA deploys its Artemis Gateway in orbit around the moon, the agency will launch a different, but related "Gateway" at its Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.