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An independent researcher found that noise recorded miles away from the site of a recent test flight was equal to standing 200 feet from a Boeing 747 during takeoff.

For a century, exoplanet hunters have "discovered" planets around a nearby star, only to retract the claims. But the latest find is for real.

The agency's top medical official was responding to rumors that Suni Williams had lost an unusual amount of weight during an extended stay in orbit.

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event.

The president-elect's decision to witness the liftoff is another example of his close ties to the world's wealthiest entrepreneur.

The event produces some of the year's fastest meteors, although the nearly full moon may make them challenging to spot.

The cube-shaped satellite was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket late Monday to test if timber will work as a more sustainable material in space.

This short trivia quiz tests your knowledge of fiction and nonfiction works that were made into popular films about space exploration and the quest to connect with other worlds.