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On March 3, 1969, NASA launched the Apollo 9 mission to test the first crewed Lunar Module spacecraft that would pave the way for future moon landings. See how the mission worked in photos here.

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this stunning image of Jupiter's south pole during a close flyby of the planet on Feb. 7.

A new exhibit at New York's Center for Jewish History chronicles the ties between Jewish culture and exploration of the cosmos, and includes some incredible artifacts from the history of astronomy and space exploration.

. "But it's been hypothesized that there could be black holes that formed in the very early universe before stars existed at all., said said Savvas Koushiappas, an associate professor of physics at Brown University. "The...

New findings by the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope raise hopes of detecting other new millisecond pulsars, e.g., from a predicted large population of such objects towards the center of our Galaxy. Scientists from the Ma...

Heat shield back shell panels are prefitted on the Orion spacecraft at NASA's Kennedy Space Center....

Huge 'mega-colonies' of penguins have been discovered near the Antarctic peninsula, hosting more than 1.5m birds. Researchers say it shows the area is a vital refuge from climate change and human activities and should be...

In the 1980s, scientists started discovering a new class of extremely bright sources of X-rays in galaxies....

This image captures the swirling cloud formations around the south pole of Jupiter, looking up toward the equatorial region.NASA's Juno spacecraft took the color-enhanced image during its eleventh close flyby of the gas ...

Moon-based detritus includes leftover urine-collection kits, an olive branch and tons of robotic equipment from lunar probes.

A research team of multiple institutes, including the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and University of Tokyo, released an unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map based on the newly obtained imaging dat...