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SpaceX's futuristic Starship exploded after what looked to be a successful touchdown. SpaceX had live-streamed the launch and landing and ended its feed before the explosion.

A national panel of vaccine experts in Canada recommended Wednesday that provinces extend the interval between the two doses of a COVID-19 shot to four months to quickly inoculate more people amid a shortage of doses in Canada.

Eccentric Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is looking for eight civilian volunteers to blast off to the Moon with him on the first-ever private commercial space trip.

For the first time in history, astronomers have detected what they've deemed a "space hurricane" in Earth's upper atmosphere.

It’s a segment of the population that accounts for roughly 13% of the total cases of COVID-19 in the United States: children. Now, the National Institutes of Health is launching a new research effort to better understand how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, affects adolescents.

Sky-watchers have a chance to observe another astronomical event — the conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury.

The COVID-19 pandemic has canceled airshows around the country, but that doesn’t mean that the military’s precision flying teams have been grounded. Now they’re debuting a dramatic new aerial display.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of the U.S. government’s pandemic response, has donated his personal 3D model of the COVID-19 virus to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

The director of the CDC is pleading with Americans not to get too comfortable amid easing COVID-19 restrictions and mass vaccination rollouts.

UK residents were treated to an astronomical show Sunday when a meteor lit up the night sky.

Just a few days later, the space company hopes to launch its next batch of Starlink satellites. 

Gray wolves were eradicated in California early in the last century because of their perceived threat to livestock. Their reappearance in the state has riled ranchers, who say wolves have preyed on their livestock on public or private land.

A massive iceberg, 20 times the size of Manhattan, broke off in the Antarctic according to the British Antarctic Survey.

The 12-0 vote, with one recusal for a potential conflict of interest, comes following an official emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday.

NASA's Kate Rubins and Victor Glover ventured out Sunday to install support frames for new, high-efficiency solar panels arriving at the International Space Station later this year.

Wildlife photographer Konstantine 'Gus' Mamalis talks about his search for the elusive snowy owl on Maryland's Assateague Island!

The study found a significant decrease in asymptomatic infections among healthcare workers who had gotten their first shot of the Pfizer vaccine at least 12 days ago.

Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.