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Chinese astronauts return from successful Tiangong space station mission, showcasing China's advancements in space exploration.

Nasa says Taurids will be ‘more active’ than usual, producing unusually bright shooting stars

Over 100 astronomers from leading U.S. universities have signed an open letter calling for an assessment of potential impacts of satellite megaconstellations on Earth's environment.

Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after a six-month stay on China’s Tiangong space station

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did this process begin?

Liftoff of the mission, which was for a "confidential commercial customer," took place at 5:56 a.m. ET on Tuesday (Nov. 5).

Japan launched the Kirameki 3 military communications satellite Monday morning (Nov. 4), on the fourth-ever flight of the country's H3 rocket.

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors and landslides that totally change the asteroid's surface.

If you want to touch history, book a trip to Italy. Here, past and present are neighbors. Ancient relics and modern marvels dance cheek-to-cheek, reminding us that so much of what we cherish today was first discovered, cultivated and enshrined by societies that walked this earth ages ago. In a…

We take our timekeeping rules for granted, but the history of these rules is long and complex.

Duff Goldman, the host of the Food Network show "Ace of Cakes," has for a third year brought a space-themed cake to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.