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SpaceX launched its third national security flight of the month today (Sept. 26), sending up the USSF-385 mission for the U.S. Space Force.

On Sept. 26, 1983, a Russian Soyuz rocket exploded on the launchpad, triggering the first ever launch abort escape for a human crew. Here's why it mattered.

Star Trek: Enterprise is far from the best in the franchise, but it has aged better than expected.

September's Harvest Moon rises tonight as the first full moon of Autumn.

On Episode 229 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik work through the most important space headlines. At top, SpaceX's upcoming Starship Flight 14.

The Daytime Sextantids meteor shower is approaching maximum activity, but catching one of its elusive meteors won't be easy.

SpaceX will attempt to launch its Starship megarocket to orbit for the first time on Sept. 28. Here's what time Starship Flight 14 will launch.

The devout SpaceX fan in your life might be calling off work on Monday.

Rocket Lab launched a radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective's Strix imaging constellation from New Zealand on Friday night (Sept. 25).

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that just 500 million years after the Big Bang, galaxies were already pumping heavy elements into the infant universe.