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Keisha S., a health and energy coach from the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda, just won a free trip to suborbital space with Virgin Galactic.

Both National Geographic science kits include an erupting volcano.

Have a star party and introduce your guests to the night sky to make this year's Thanksgiving stand out.

China continued its record-breaking year of launches by sending two satellites into orbit in recent days.

A new release from the Hubble telescope's vast archive shares an incredible space "snowman" filled with glowing gas.

Several retailers are offering Black Friday space board game deals.

Save $150 on the Macbook Air and $320 on the Dell XPS 13 in the Black Friday sales - two amazing photo editing laptops.

Celestron's beginner-friendly 114AZ-SR model has been reduced to just $84.99.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with NASA’s DART asteroid deflection mission. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

A small NASA space probe blasted off from California early Wednesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a first-of-its-kind mission to change the orbit of an asteroid, pioneering a technique that may one day be used to divert an asteroid off of a collision course with Earth.

The first-ever planetary defense mission is now on its way to the asteroid Didymos and its moon, Dimorphos.

Data from ESA’s Gaia mission is re-writing the history of our galaxy, the Milky Way. What had traditionally been thought of as satellite galaxies to the Milky Way are now revealed to be mostly newcomers to our galactic environment.

This early Black Friday deal on the Sky-Watcher telescope is perfect for beginners who are serious about astronomy.

Russia's Prichal docking module launched toward the International Space Station Wednesday morning (Nov. 24).

What to do about orbital debris is now a daily topic of conversation and concern within the space community. But is it all too little, too late?

The DART spacecraft's camera will take its first photos eight days after launch, if all goes according to plan.

Each year, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope photographs the outer planets of the solar system — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — allowing astronomers to monitor how the gas giants change over time.

Rocket Lab plans to pluck the falling first stage of one of its Electron launchers out of the sky with a helicopter on its next recovery mission.

Tachyons are hypothetical particles that move faster than the speed of light and travel backward through time. Whether they exist is still up for debate.

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