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NASA’s second attempt to fuel up its Artemis 2 moon rocket appeared to go well on Thursday (Feb. 19), potentially keeping the mission on track to launch as soon as

Since astronomers discovered the first world outside the solar system in the mid-1990s, these extra-solar planets or “exoplanets” have astounded us with their strange characteristics. A new discovery, made using

There’s a saying: no one hates “Star Wars” more than “Star Wars” fans. While the river of abhorrence flows freely through the deluge of online forums and social media now,

One of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband internet satellites suffered an anomaly in orbit on Wednesday (Dec. 17) and is now plunging toward Earth. The mishap led to a loss of communication

Astronomers may have discovered the first example of an explosive cosmic event called a “superkilonova,” in the form of a gravitational wave signal detected on Aug. 18, 2025. A kilonova

2025 was a very busy year in spaceflight. Over the past 12 months, we saw multiple spaceflight records broken, the debut of a powerful new reusable rocket and the first-ever

It started on Christmas Eve in 1955, when an eager child picked up the phone to call Santa Claus and instead accidentally called a U.S. military air defense facility. That

2025 has seen stargazers look on in awe as a trio of magnificent comets barreled headlong into the inner solar system to survive a close brush with the sun, only

Christmas is a wonderful time for those who celebrate and once the turkey dinner is done and the wrapping paper has been tidied away, there’s always one last treat that

Quite a bit has happened in the space sector this year, out in the cosmos as well as on Earth — and actually, in Earth orbit, too. For instance, U.S.