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Karina Rykman talks to Space.com about her new music, "Spacecase," "Riverside Drive," and "Zoom Out," escaping everyday life and finding transcendence through live music.

On Oct. 3, 1942, Nazi Germany conducted the first successful test launch of its V-2 rocket, a weapon of war that helped set the stage for the space age.

On Episode 230 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with Dr. Laura Schaefer, ,who explains how molten lava worlds defy the odds.

A new look at ancient rocks suggests that a self-sustaining nutrient cycle in ancient oceans helped keep Earth's atmosphere rich in oxygen for millions of years.

MEGATRON is a good guy!?! Well, at least to cosmologists who are using this simulation to transform our understanding of the universe's first stars.

On Oct. 2, 2015, the United Launch Alliance launched its 100th rocket! Here's why one company's rocket milestone mattered.

Now this is pod racing… evolved.

Klaatu barada nikto! Three-quarters of a century on, Robert Wise's tale of alien visitation still has plenty to say.

A waning crescent moon will pass directly in front of Jupiter before dawn on Oct. 6, hiding the giant planet from view across parts of North America.

Astronomers have caught a white dwarf in a rare stage of its evolution as it orbits a "cosmic lighthouse" in the form of a rapidly spinning neutron star pulsar.