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The National Air and Space Museum's lesser-known second location offers a larger exhibit space with over 200 historic aircraft and spacecraft.

Despite sounding like something out of pulpy '50s sci-fi, 'space lasers' are real – and astrophysicists have now spotted the ...

You know that feeling when you find something hiding right where you've been looking all along? Astronomers just had that moment on a cosmic scale. A galaxy so faint, so nearly invisible that no one ...

The researchers said that the "hydroxyl gigamaser" was generated by the merger of two galaxies some 8 billion light-years away.

MeerKAT telescope discovers most powerful space laser ever found, detecting a hydroxyl gigamaser 8 billion light-years away using gravitational lensing.

Fifteen years ago today, the roar of engines and a pillar of fire lit up the Florida sky as Space Shuttle Discovery began its final journey into space.

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NASA warns that more than 15,000 asteroids capable of destroying cities remain undetected and that Earth has no defense against impact.