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Astrophotographer Joel Martin captured a gorgeous view of the Orion Nebula (M42) shining 1,500 light-years from Earth, revealing spectacular detail in the stellar nursery as it hung in the winter

On Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 14), SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission will perform the first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station (ISS). The quartet — NASA’s Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, Kimiya

NASA is serious about setting up a nuclear power plant on the moon by 2030. For a few years now, the agency has been working to develop a nuclear reactor

Astronomers have used the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to observe a violent cosmic dance between a suspected pair of supermassive black holes at the heart of a distant galaxy. The

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — don’t necessarily behave the same way on our home planet.

Astronomers have discovered that a young galaxy was gradually starved by its central supermassive black hole, in what was effectively a cosmic “death by a thousand cuts.” The James Webb

Paul Giamatti (“Sideways,” “John Adams”) and Holly Hunter (“Raising Arizona,” “The Piano”) — two of the most acclaimed and award-winning actors of our generation — may seem like unlikely choices

Wealthy adventure seekers can now book a vacation on the moon through a California-based start-up, which plans to open a hotel on Earth’s celestial companion by 2032. The aspiring space

Could a star have its own heartbeat? It sounds more like poetry than physics, but in the case of a red giant named R Leonis, the answer is a resounding,

From the ground, the night sky can feel limitless, but it’s also filtered through a blanket of air that softens and scatters starlight. From orbit, that veil drops away, as