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Research in space could help humanity to tackle our big plastic problem here on Earth.

Venus is the first planet you'll spot these days — maybe even before sunset, if you know where to look in the south-southwest sky.

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft emerges from the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing facility in July, during preparations before Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission. Credit: Alex Polimeni / Spaceflight Now

Boeing said Wednesday it will take on a $185 million charge in its third quarter earnings to pay for the latest setback on the Starliner crew capsule, bringing the company’s out-of-pocket costs on the troubled program to $595 million since 2019.

Human-made interference, not extraterrestrial technology, is responsible for the first candidate "signal of interest" detected by the project Breakthrough Listen.



'Star Trek: Prodigy' warps onto Paramount+ tonight and takes the franchise where no one has taken it before.

The AAS is honored to be continuing the legacy of Willmann-Bell, Inc. by selling and publishing their robust catalog of astronomy books as an imprint of AAS Sky Publishing, LLC.

The Great Red Spot extends as much as 310 miles (500 kilometers) beneath Jupiter's cloud tops, data from NASA's Juno Jupiter probe shows.

The new animated series, 'Star Trek: Prodigy' is coming to Paramount Plus and later Nickelodeon.

SpaceX has fired up the rocket that will launch its next crew of astronauts toward the International Space Station this weekend.

Two NASA astronauts in space right now have some ideas about what the future may hold in low-Earth orbit (LEO), and what they hope to see in a commercial space station.

A major solar flare erupted from the sun on Thursday (Oct. 28) in the strongest storm yet of our star's current weather cycle.

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ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet from France began Alpha - his second mission to the International Space Station - on 23 April 2021. Launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, on the second operational flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon, he has now spent around six months in orbit on mission Alpha. In addition to science experiments, he has taken part in four spacewalks and countless scientific investigations. On 4 October Thomas became the fourth European International Space Station Commander. He is now the ESA astronaut with the most total time spent in space and on spacewalks.

A Moscow-based automotive and industrial designer has come up with a novel, new way of navigating the lunar surface.

With a number of upcoming Star Wars TV shows heading your way soon, the Force will be with you. Always.

Facebook Connect will take place on Oct. 28 and a new Oculus VR headset may have been leaked.

Here are our top five picks for who we think will play the next Doctor Who.

These are the best cameras you can buy for photography or videography, for beginners or professionals.

Solar eclipses are one of nature's most spectacular events.