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The strong material found in stadium roofs across the globe originated in Apollo spacesuits.

Everything you wanted to know about the basics of galaxies.

The Senegal River valley that marks the border between the Atlantic coast nations of Senegal and Mauritania is pictured as the International Space Station orbited 252 miles above the African continent....

There are more than 3,900 confirmed planets beyond our solar system. Most of them have been detected because of their "transits"--instances when a planet crosses its star, momentarily blocking its light. These dips in st...

NASA launched several small rockets in December 2018, resulting in gorgeous nighttime launch photos and promising interesting insight into the makeup of particles coming and going from Earth's atmosphere.

Before NASA's Mars 2020 mission is ready to launch toward the Red Planet, they have to paint the new rover -- a task more challenging than it sounds.

The landing site of China's Chang'e 4 lunar mission is a special region that could reveal clues about the moon's formation and the history of the solar system.

A new study conducted by a team of astronomers from Poland and South Africa provides more insights into the nature of Hen 3-160, a symbiotic binary system in the southern Milky Way. The research, presented in a paper pub...

China became the third country to land a probe on the Moon on Jan. 2. But, more importantly, it became the first to do so on the far side of the moon, often called the dark side. The ability to land on the far side of th...

The most distant celestial object ever explored may well have moons, and astronomers are trying hard to find them.

Eclipse season kicks off with a partial solar eclipse this weekend.

The House of Representatives, now under Democratic leadership, passed spending bills Jan. 3 that would fund government agencies that have been shut down for nearly two weeks, but the bills face a presidential veto threat...

Comet ISON, discovered by two amateur astronomers in Russia, arrived in Earth's neighborhood in November 2013 and apparently broke up as it rounded the sun.

China's far-side moon rover is already busy exploring its exotic new home.

After multiple sexual misconduct allegations against famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson arose, National Geographic Channel has put "StarTalk" on hiatus.

Our Milky Way galaxy will endure more than one dramatic collision in the foreseeable future, new research suggests.

China just became the first country to land a probe on the far side of the moon. It's a technological achievement and another sign of China's capabilities and ambitions in space.

"The Orville" episode "Primal Urges" fell short of the show's second season premiere.

China's space agency has posted a photo of a lunar rover making tracks on the surface shortly after leaving a spacecraft that had made the first-ever landing on the moon's far side.

New research led by astrophysicists at Durham University, UK, predicts that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) could hit the Milky Way in two billion years' time.

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Researchers design CubeSats with lasers to provide steady reference light for telescopes investigating distant planets.

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Travelling to Mars will require astronauts to grow their own food. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is creating the planters for cultivating veggi...