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A Long March 2F rocket blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China at 5:17 pm, carrying the ...

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NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

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A new microscope just arrived at the International Space Station to help study life's adaptability under extreme conditions ...

This Gareth Evans-directed movie is easily my top pick of the week (heck, it's my top pick of the entire month). The Welsh filmmaker is a master of the action genre, as he proved across both “The Raid ...

Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes. [...] ...

Photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit is about to return to Earth following a seven-month stay aboard the space station. Take a moment to enjoy his best work.