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“The Predator” is an absolutely wild action film that provides a great theater experience. But does it live up to the original?

SpaceX’s giant BFR rocket has a sleek new look for an audacious private passenger flight around the moon. If an early rendering is anything to go by, the BFR is going to have some wild fins.

After delaying a shipment of crucial cargo to the International Space Station on account of a major typhoon near the spacecraft’s launch site, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has rescheduled the shipment.

SpaceX’s giant BFR rocket has a sleek new look for an audacious private passenger flight around the moon. If an early rendering is anything to go by, the BFR is going to have some wild fins.

Just four days before the Cassini spacecraft’s dramatic dive into Saturn’s atmosphere last year, cameras aboard the spacecraft captured the mission’s last image of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.

Already delayed by almost a week due to a typhoon, the International Space Station’s next cargo delivery has unexpectedly been postponed again.

For the first time, researchers have calculated the impact of climate change on a hurricane before it actually hits land.

A monster storm is poised to hit the Philippines.

The storm’s winds are no longer as strong as they once were, but the rainfall is already approaching ‘catastrophic.’

It’s been more than a week, and a National Solar Observatory (NSO) facility in New Mexico is still closed for an undisclosed “security issue.”

One of the most storied rockets in history is taking its last journey Saturday morning (Sept. 15) in a launch you won’t want to miss.

Hurricane Florence, now a Category 2 storm, is slowly approaching the U.S. coast, and the storm’s massive fury is on full display in video footage taken from the International Space Station.

Ewine van Dishoeck, the 2018 Kavli Prize laureate, discusses her personal and professional journey into the field of astrochemistry.

The first crewed launch of the program proved that the Apollo spacecraft could get astronauts to the moon.

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will mark the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission with a week-long “First Moon Landing Celebration” and with a series of events leading up to the July 2019 commemoration.

A “private passenger” has signed up for a circumlunar flight aboard SpaceX’s BFR rocket-spaceship combo, company representatives announced via Twitter this evening (Sept. 13).

A “private passenger” has signed up for a circumlunar flight aboard SpaceX’s BFR rocket-spaceship combo, company representatives announced via Twitter this evening (Sept. 13).

Hurricane Florence, downgraded to a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of up to 110 mph (175 km/h), is getting closer to the coast of North Carolina.

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen is the class supervisor for the 2017 class of astronaut candidates, who are expected to be the ones eventually exiting low Earth orbit for missions to the moon — and perhaps even to Mars, if NASA predictions of today ho…

Delta rockets have been launching to space for almost six decades now, carrying some hallmark NASA missions into orbit.

The water sloshing in Earth’s oceans and coursing through its canyons may have been with the planet since it first started taking shape, new research suggests.

This weekend, NASA is planning to launch a spacecraft that will use half a dozen bright-green laser beams to measure seasonal and annual changes to Earth’s icy poles.

A global, liquid-water ocean could exist under range of conditions on Proxima Centauri b, the closest known exoplanet to Earth.

NASA’s new ice-monitoring satellite ICESat-2 can watch ice thickness change to within the width of a No. 2 pencil every year. It took a decade to develop the technology to yield such precision, but it will help scientists better predict how melting ice wi

A laser-firing, ice-monitoring NASA spacecraft has been cleared for liftoff.

With the long-awaited release of the latest foray into the “Predator” franchise, we look back at all the movies starring cinema’s favorite space-faring safari hunter.

With calls to set aside more space for nature, what comes next for space exploration and what does our history in space teach us about the wisdom of such an effort?

Two weeks after astronauts and cosmonauts repaired an air leak at the International Space Station, investigators are still trying to figure out how the tiny hole got there.

A remarkable new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a close-up view of some of the most distant galaxies in the universe.

We’re back into the weird science of black holes in this week’s installment of “Ask a Spaceman.” In this episode, astrophysicist and Space.com columnist Paul Sutter explains why a black hole is doomed to die from the moment of its birth.

While Polaris is far from being the brightest star in the sky, finding it is not as hard as it may seem!

The planet-enveloping dust storm on Mars has settled enough for NASA to start a 45-day active-listening period in which the agency hopes to make contact with the rover Opportunity after three months of silence.

NASA’s gigantic, ultrathin balloon, known as the “Big 60,” broke a sustainable-altitude record when it took to the skies last month.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield wowed the world with his guitar-playing and social media skills. Five years later, a new astronaut, David Saint-Jacques, is poised to launch on to the world stage. Can we expect an encore?

On Sept. 12, 1992, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to go to space. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

A strange pair of space rocks twirling around each other as they orbit the sun has helped scientists pinpoint when our solar system developed its current formation.

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile has a busy observation schedule, but sometimes cloudy or moonlit skies mean a temporary halt to scientific measurements. Then, it grabs images like this.

NASA will run its final parachute test for the Orion spacecraft on Sept. 12 as the agency readies Orion for its first uncrewed mission around the moon.

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile has a busy observation schedule, but sometimes cloudy or moonlit skies mean a temporary halt to scientific measurements. Then, it grabs images like this.

A student who began her master’s degree in May partnered with an international team of researchers to discover a special cosmic neighbor twice the size of Earth.

The leader of the current mission aboard the International Space Station is hitting back against the suggestion that he or one of his crewmates might have caused the orbiting lab’s recent air leak.

As Hurricane Florence makes its way toward the U.S. East Coast, several satellites are monitoring the dangerous storm system with a variety of instruments.

The Spirit rover discovered evidence of the red planet’s history and was a trailblazer for future Mars rovers.

A test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft safely touched down on Earth today (Sept. 12) under three parachutes, completing a crucial test to get the vehicle ready for a journey around the moon and back.

See the latest videos and animated imagery of Hurricane Florence.

Hurricane Florence, on its way across the Atlantic Ocean toward North Carolina, dominates photos and video from the International Space Station, where astronauts are using wide-angle lenses because of how far the storm extends.

On Sept. 11, 1985, the International Cometary Explorer, or “ICE” became the first spacecraft to fly by a comet. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

Researchers have released the most detailed terrain map of Antarctica to date.

Just seven photons in a mirrored trap formed a Bose-Einstein condensate, one of the more exotic particle states — and one usually reserved for matter.

I’m just inches away from capturing a Japanese HTV cargo spacecraft on the International Space Station using the Canadarm2 robotic arm. But things are getting dicey.

Ten years ago, the world’s largest scientific instrument was turned on and the start of a research dynasty began.

NASA’s new mission to the sun may reveal clues about alien worlds, too.

Last year’s mysterious outburst of deep-space light flashes was even more frenzied than previously thought, a new study reports.

As three powerful storms march one by one across the Atlantic Ocean toward the U.S. East Coast and the Caribbean, a fourth is getting ready to roll over the Hawaiian Islands.

OSIRIS-REx, which launched toward the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in September 2016, begins studying the space rock from afar today (Sept. 11), mission team members announced.

The northern lights just got a boost thanks to a big hole in the sun’s atmosphere, and there could be something of a repeat showing tonight (Sept. 11).

Meteorites are key features of many natural history museum collections, but there’s never been an international conference dedicated to taking care of these rocks that fall to Earth from space.

Seventeen years after 9/11, NASA is commemorating the anniversary of the tragic terror attacks with new photos of New York City and Washington taken from space.

In a scene straight out of NASA’s past, a towering gantry was rolled into a large rocket hangar to undergo checks in support of the space agency’s future.

Warnings from military and intelligence agencies about Russia and China threatening to take down or jam U.S. satellites are taken seriously by the Army as forces have grown heavily dependent on satellites.

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson: “We support the president’s proposal.”

On Sept. 10, 2011, NASA’s GRAIL spacecraft launched on a mission to the moon! GRAIL was sent to the moon to map its gravitational fields. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

Japan’s space agency has postponed the launch of its next cargo ship mission to the International Space Station due bad weather from a typhoon.

A giant ring of black holes has been discovered 300 million light-years away, offering new clues about what happens when galaxies collide.

See astronaut photos and satellite images of Hurricane Florence.

Here’s a primer on the Gateway, the moon-orbiting space station that NASA plans to start building in the next half-decade.

The Indian Space Research Organisation showed off the spacesuit it has designed in-house for its first human space missions at an event held on Sept. 6.

As Hurricane Florence intensified into a major Category 4 storm in the Atlantic Ocean today (Sept. 10), astronauts and satellites have spotted the enormous weather system from space.

If you watched the Cassini probe’s spectacular dive into Saturn last September, you weren’t alone — and now its media campaign has earned NASA an Emmy award.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched the Telstar 18 Vantage communications satellite into orbit early Monday morning (Sept. 10) before returning for a spectacular drone-ship landing in the Atlantic Ocean.

Scientists have spent 12 years arguing over how to classify Pluto, and a recently published paper offers a new — but surprisingly old — reason for restoring the object’s planetary status.

Want to see a comet whizzing by Earth? Your best chance to catch one of these celestial visitors is overnight, when Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner will be best visible in binoculars or a telescope.

SpaceX is prepared to loft a hefty communications satellite into orbit tonight (Sept. 9), attempting to land a Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage on a drone ship at sea.

On Sept. 9, 1982, the first private rocket, Conestoga 1 built by Space Services, launched from a Texas cattle ranch. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

Take a walk through Lockheed Martin’s proposed habitat for NASA’s moon-orbiting space station, which the agency plans to start building in 2022.

This month, a periodically returning comet designated 21P/Giacobini-Zinner is bright enough to be seen in binoculars and small telescopes. Here’s how to track it.

“Explorer Academy,” a new seven-book book series from National Geographic, combines real-life science and exploration with fiction to captivate young audiences looking for adventure.

A near-Earth asteroid will safely fly by Earth on Sunday (Sept. 9), and you can watch its approach in a live webcast tonight (Sept. 8).

On Sept. 8, 2004, NASA’s Genesis spacecraft crash-landed in Utah after its parachutes failed to deploy. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

NASA successfully tested a supersonic parachute designed to land the agency’s next rover on Mars today (Sept. 7) during a sounding rocket flight from Wallops Island in Virginia.

NASA successfully tested a supersonic parachute designed to land the agency’s next rover on Mars today (Sept. 7) during a sounding rocket flight from Wallops Island in Virginia.

Just because Jupiter’s moon Europa is coated in ice doesn’t mean all that ice is the same temperature.

Just because Jupiter’s moon Europa is coated in ice doesn’t mean all that ice is the same temperature.

The starry arc of the Milky Way galaxy sprawls across the evening sky on a spring night in this photo captured near the village of Campinho in Portugal’s Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve.

The starry arc of the Milky Way galaxy sprawls across the evening sky on a spring night in this photo captured near the village of Campinho in Portugal’s Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve.

On Sept. 7, 1995, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on mission STS-69. This was the 100th successful crew spaceflight mission for NASA. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

NASA will hold a live “science chat” today (Sept. 7) to showcase the success of the space agency’s Dawn asteroid mission as the spacecraft nears the end of its mission, and you can watch it live online.

Hurricane Florence looks like a giant cotton ball in new photos snapped from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold.

A week after a small depressurization occurred in the International Space Station, the next trio of astronauts to leave Earth expressed their confidence in safety of the spacecraft involved in their journey.

We’re all probably trapped in a “Matrix”-like pseudoexistence, SpaceX chief Elon Musk said early Friday (Sept. 7) during a long, wide-ranging and very entertaining appearance on comedian Joe Rogan’s podcast.

A week after a small depressurization occurred in the International Space Station, a trio of astronauts due to leave Earth in December expressed their confidence in safety of the spacecraft involved in their journey.

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has captured itself and its exotic, colorful Red Planet surroundings in a single glorious 360-degree shot.

“Earthrise,” a new, award-winning short documentary named after the famous photo, centers on the image and the remarkable story behind it.

Appreciate those gorgeous photos of the dwarf planet Ceres that NASA’s Dawn spacecraft keeps beaming home, because that tap will soon run dry.