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A Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle successfully lifted off from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Māhia Peninsula at 04:30 UTC, Saturday 29 June 2019 (16:30 NZST). The Make It Rain mission launched seven satellites to...

A reusable suborbital rocket developed by Exos Aerospace suffered a loss of attitude control seconds after liftoff on a test flight June 29, but the rocket was still able to glide safely back to Earth. SpaceNews.com

Super-Massive Black Holes (SMBH) are hard to explain. These gargantuan singularities are thought to be at the center of every large galaxy (our Milky Way has one) but their presence there sometimes defies easy explanatio...

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Onlookers adorned the shoreline of Florida's Port Canaveral on Thursday (June 27) as SpaceX's net-equipped ship returned home with the space hardware that it plucked from the sky two days earlier.

Cosmic marvels dazzle in the U.K.'s 'Astronomy Photographer of the Year' contest.

More than 4,000 photographers shot for the moon (and beyond) for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition in the U.K.

Lying on a workshop counter that is closed to the public at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's annex near Washington Dulles airport, Neil Armstrong's gloves look almost as good as new.

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched an Earth imaging satellite and several smaller satellites on a mission for rideshare services company Spaceflight June 29. SpaceNews.com

Spaceflight startup Rocket Lab launched seven small satellites to low-Earth orbit early this morning (June 29) on the company's seventh flight, a mission dubbed "Make It Rain."

If you stop a random person on the sidewalk and ask them what their favorite planet is, chances are their answer will be Saturn....

Utah's Great Salt Lake is pictured as the International Space Station orbited 255 miles above the southwestern United States....