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Watch European astronaut make history during space...
On Aug. 18, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot will become the first French woman ever to...
How an ancient collision with another galaxy trans...
The Milky Way has a secret history of galaxy mergers that we are only now starting to uncover.
China bounces back from Long March rocket explosio...
China's space program has returned to flight after an Aug. 10 Long March 7A rocket explosion, launch...
The best Ruko drone to date is half-price at Amazo...
Looking to take to the skies? This beginner-friendly Ruko F11 PRO 2 is a mind-blowing $280 off, but ...
Scientists find dead star that predicts our sun's ...
A composite image of data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Kitt Peak four-meter telescope and MO...
The 1st 'Star Wars: Ahsoka' season 2 trailer final...
Our first look at 'Star Wars: Ahsoka' season 2 promises huge space battles, Clone Wars flashbacks, a...
Scientists find 3 supermassive black holes on the ...
A greedy galaxy that existed less than 1.3 billion years after the Big Bang is hoarding supermassive...
On this day in space! Aug. 17, 1877: Asaph Hall Di...
On this day in space, Aug. 17, 1877: American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Mars's moon Phobos.
Wildfire smoke blankets volcanoes across the Pacif...
The wildfires ripping across North America have created massive plumes of smoke.
These eight Lego Star Wars Smart Play sets are out...
From all-in-one to compatible sets, these are the eight Lego Star Wars Smart Play sets you won't wan...
A 'river' of cosmic gas 1 trillion miles long sent...
A river of gas over a trillion miles long is streaming onto a young planet-forming system and is tip...
Blue Origin adding second pad to Cape Canaveral la...
As Blue Origin continues to repair its New Glenn launch pad following the rocket's explosion in May,...
'This is unprecedented': Why the Pentagon's recent...
The Pentagon's recent spate of UFO releases represent a big shift and are of great benefit to the co...
How to watch 'Lanterns' — HBO's gritty new Green L...
Hal Jordan and John Stewart don the classic green in this new hardboiled space cop mystery
NASA funds spherical 'Aerobots' that could explore...
An early-stage grant is offering a look at spherical 'Aerobots' that could zoom around the caves of ...
On this day in space! Aug. 16, 1963: Wingless M2-F...
On this day in space Aug. 16, 1963: NASA's M2-F1 aircraft prototype makes its first glide flight.
Artemis II pilot thanks NASA for letting him fly O...
The Artemis II crew thanked NASA and its contractors in front of a crowd of over 8,000 on on Aug. 3,...
'This goes beyond showcasing technological soft po...
New chronology, data about the moon's far side and a homegrown cartographic standard signal China's ...
Stomp Rockets: The perfect start to model rocketry...
Stomp Rockets can open up the world of model rocketry to your kids.
When Friedrich Miescher isolated a strange phospho...
In 1869, Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher isolated a phosphorus-rich substance from pus-soaked banda...
Roman concrete piers built two thousand years ago ...
Roman piers along the Mediterranean have stood for two thousand years while modern reinforced concre...
We tend to picture the Sahara as an eternal desert...
Sediment cores, ancient DNA, and 15,000 rock paintings at Tassili n'Ajjer confirm the Sahara was a g...
Quote by Viktor Frankl: Between stimulus and respo...
What neuroscience reveals about our most beloved quote on human agency—and whether the freedom it pr...
A coastal redwood named Hyperion stands 115.9 metr...
The world's tallest living tree, a 115.9-metre coast redwood in California's Redwood National Park, ...
New record! SpaceX launches 2 Falcon 9 rockets jus...
SpaceX launched two of its Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart on Saturday evening (Aug. 15), set...
The Paradoxical Politics of Climate
The science was right all along, but which side suppresses inconvenient climate findings has fundame...
On this day in space! Aug. 15, 1977: Mysterious 'W...
On Aug. 15, 1977, astronomers using Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope detected the fam...
'Lanterns': Who's who in HBO's Green Lantern show?...
In brightest day, in blackest night, no Lanterns character shall escape our sight!
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 223 — The Luna...
On Episode 223 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Dale Skran are joined by Dr. Scott ...
We think these Nikon binoculars are excellent for ...
Get everything between 10x and 22x with Nikon’s new Action Zoom 10-22x50 binoculars
'Strap yourself in and feel the Gs': NASA announce...
NASA announced today (Aug. 14) that it will hold a two-day aerospace expo this November — an event w...
Is empty space really empty? This magnetic star ma...
"We're not just studying astronomical objects anymore; we're using them to test the laws of nature."...
Cards Against Humanity wants to erect a monument t...
Cards Against Humanity isn't done with its scorched-Earth campaign against SpaceX and Elon Musk, and...
6 space board games to channel the political drama...
“Whoever controls space will control the Earth.”
Will the new moon race turn Earth's nearest neighb...
We need rules to prevent space companies from dumping their old rockets onto the moon's surface in t...
US Space Force gives Rocket Lab $397 million to bu...
The U.S. Space Force has awarded Rocket Lab $397 million to manufacture a new fleet of "Flatellites"...
Can Venus cast a shadow? Here's how to see it for ...
As Venus gets close to its greatest brilliancy in the evening sky, it’s a good time to test one of a...
Water can survive surprisingly close to the Milky ...
Water and cosmic dust can survive in the harsh environment near Sagittarius A*, new observations rev...
On this day in space! Aug. 14, 1992: Meteorite sho...
On Aug. 14, 1992, a space rock entered the atmosphere over Mbale, Uganda and exploded into hundreds ...
The ISS photobombs the sun during the total solar ...
The silhouette of the ISS transiting across the sun's face during the Aug. 12, 2026 total solar ecli...
India-US space ties deepen as NASA invites ISRO to...
NASA has invited the Indian Space Research Organisation to collaborate on its Moon Base program, whi...
SpaceX rocket's moon crash highlights 'a tangible ...
A SpaceX rocket body slammed into the moon earlier this month, showcasing a risk that will increase ...
Our expert thinks this portable Celestron telescop...
The perfect instrument for introducing beginner astronomers to the moon and stars
Every year, roughly 27.7 million tonnes of dust li...
A dried lakebed in Chad exhales roughly 27.7 million tonnes of phosphorus-rich dust each year. Trade...
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke retires after 30 years ...
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke has retired from NASA after 30 years of public service, leaving behind a ...
Supermassive black hole spews energy 300,000 light...
That's three times longer than the Milky Way galaxy.
NASA's canceled lunar space station tech will help...
Northrop Grumman plans to take technology built into the HALO module for NASA's canceled lunar space...
'The X-Files' creator Chris Carter says new direct...
Chris Carter, creator of "The X-Files", is revisiting the 2008 film "The X-Files: I Want to Believe"...
How to image the planets with a telescope and came...
Follow our step-by-step tutorial to photographing Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and Venus
Virgin Galactic delays next commercial spaceflight...
Virgin Galactic has pushed the resumption of its commercial flights back by a few months, to Februar...
