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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is ready to perform the most distant flyby ever of a solar system object, an event largely unaffected by the ongoing government shutdown. SpaceNews.com

A NASA spaceship is zooming toward the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever photographed by humankind, a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule some four billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away.

The government agency that prints U.S. money is producing a new set of paper to mark 50 years since the first moon landing. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is offering the "Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Commemorative E...

Elon Musk recently provided updates on the mini-Starship prototype that will making a test flight next year, including the fact that it will be built from a stainless steel alloy. The post Prototype Version of the SpaceX...

Apparently not all supernovas work. And when they fail, they leave behind a half-chewed remnant, still burning from leftover heat but otherwise lifeless: a zombie star. Astronomers aren’t sure how many of these should-...

Novelists have "It was a dark and stormy night." For planetary scientists, the equivalent cliche is, "We expect to be surprised." The story of every new space mission seems to begin that way. No matter how intensely rese...

On the occasion of his passing, we honor a man for all seasons and an astronomer for all wavelengths --

ALMA (Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array): Using observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, researchers have observed, for the first time, a warped disk around an infant...

On Jan. 1, 2019, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will make history with the first close flyby of a Kuiper Belt object: Ultima Thule. See photos of Ultima Thule and the historic encounter here!

On Jan. 1, 2019, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will ring in the New Year by making history: the first flyby of an object in the Kuiper Belt in the extreme outer solar system. See our full coverage of the flyby of Ultima...

The latest New Horizons image of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule reveals its elongated shape.

China's Chang'e 4 mission will soon make a historic touchdown on the far side of the moon.

NASA's asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx probe has begun circling its space-rock target, setting a new record for the smallest body ever orbited by a spacecraft.

(RIKEN) Using observations from the ALMA radio observatory in Chile, researchers have observed, for the first time, a warped disk around an infant protostar that formed just several tens of thousands of years ago. This i...