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A half-ton spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is peaking. Experts say expect to see 10 to 15 meteors per hour in ideal viewing conditions early Tuesday.

An astronaut who missed out on the first all-female spacewalk because of a spacesuit sizing issue got her chance six years later.

Amazon’s first internet satellites are in orbit. United Launch Alliance’s Atlas rocket blasted off Monday from Florida, carrying 27 of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites. It’s the latest entry in the mega constellation market currently dominated by SpaceX’s Starlinks. Amazon launched two test satellites in 2023. These upgraded new ones are coated with mirror film to scatter reflecting sunlight in an...

Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto, may not have survived its recent trip past the sun and is fading fast.

Spring’s first meteor shower is reaching its peak. The Lyrids have surprised skygazers in the past with as many as 100 meteors per hour, but it’s not predicted to be as active this time around.

Cambridge researchers using the James Webb space telescope say they have detected two gases in the atmosphere of the planet K2-18b that hint at alien life.

After Wendy’s appeared to troll Katy Perry for participating in the Blue Origin space expedition, the brand issued a statement addressing the matter.

Finding evidence of life in the cosmos is the “holy grail” of exoplanet science, one of the scientists said, but there is still a 0.3% chance that the observation is a statistical fluke.

Scientists may have found a new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system that orbits two failed stars.

Blue Origin’s flight features the first all-female crew since 1963 and includes big names like pop star Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez.

As Blue Origin prepares for its NS-31 mission, learn more about the spaceflight and all-female crew that includes Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, Kerianne Flynn, Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen.

The planet famous for its rovers went roving itself, departing the Kennedy Center’s REACH plaza and rolling east onto the roadway.

Discovered late last year, the asteroid 2024 YR4 was predicted at one point to have a 3% chance of smacking Earth in 2032.

The astronaut from Needham, Massachusetts, spoke Monday in Houston after returning from a mission that unexpectedly kept her in space for nine months

After her return from her extended stay in space, Needham native Suni Williams sat down with NBC10 Boston for an interview in Houston.

Many of us here in New England might catch a glimpse of a partial solar eclipse Saturday — if Mother Nature doesn’t rain on our parade.

Our temperatures are warmer than usual, even if they aren’t as warm as we’ve seen in Boston lately. But the weekend will be colder. 

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President Donald Trump said if he had to, he’d pay Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore “out of my own pocket” after their return from space

The 279 extra days Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spent in space does not leave them eligible for overtime pay.