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The Philippine Space Agency announced Thursday that it was recommending "precautionary measures related to expected unburned debris" from a Chinese rocket launch.

From the scientific discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope to the operation of the Perseverance rover, here are the year's most out-of-this-world space stories.

The Coolidge Dam in eastern Arizona has reported recorded its highest water level in five years and, per the U.S. Geological Survey, the highest December total ever.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured two strikingly different images of the cluster NGC 1850, located 160,000 light years away in the constellation Dorado.

NASA's Mars rover deposited the first sample of rocks on the Red Planet's surface so that they could eventually return to Earth for further analysis.

NASA's InSight Mars lander mission officially ended on Wednesday after four years of studying the Red Planet's interior layers and measuring seismic activity.

NASA's InSight Mars Lander, which is expected to soon power down after four years on the red planet, has reportedly recorded its biggest quake on Mars ever.

In a historic deal reached early Monday in Montreal, the U.N. Biodiversity Conference stated that it would finance significant efforts to protect the world's lands and oceans

NASA said that the James Webb Space Telescope team had discovered dozens of previously hidden energetic jets and outflows from young stars in the Cosmic Cliffs.

NASA scientists said this week that they would continue to focus on Io, Jupiter's volcano-laced moon, with multiple close flybys of their Juno spacecraft.

An official said a coolant leak, likely due to a micrometeorite strike, was detected from the Russian space capsule docked to the International Space Station.

The Geminids Meteor Shower is peaking Wednesday morning, with most of the more than 100 bright fragments visible over the Northern Hemisphere, according to NASA.

Energy officials announced Tuesday that scientists at a California laboratory had produced the first successful nuclear fusion reaction resulting in net energy gain.

NASA's Orion spacecraft splashed down west of Baja California Sunday, completing a 25-day mission that clears the way for astronauts to be on the next lunar flyby.

A group of international astronomers used data from the James Webb Space Telescope's observations to report the discoveries of the earliest known galaxies.

The leader of U.S. military operations in space cautioned Friday that China is continuing to build capabilities that potentially threaten American assets in space.

Scientists analyzed environmental DNA from soil samples to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in northern Greenland, finding traces of mastodons.

The National Park Service said Tuesday that the endangered ʻakēʻakē seabird had been documented emerging from its burrow on the Mauna Loa volcano for the first time.

NASA's Orion spacecraft showed stunning footage of the dark side of the moon and the Earth ahead of its Dec. 11 splashdown this weekend off the California coast.

Jonathan the tortoise arrived on the Island of Saint Helena in 1882 at the alleged age of 50 and has lived on the governor's plantation house ever since.