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Before the April 2024 total eclipse that will cross North America, there are almost two dozen lunar and solar eclipses appearing in skies across the world.

It's probably around 1 billion years old.

A stunning new video captures the dramatic and surprisingly colorful descent of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy payload fairing during the huge rocket's launch on June 25.

Skywatcher and satellite tracker Ralf Vandebergh recently caught a rare glimpse of the U.S. Air Force's secretive vehicle doing its thing in orbit.

NASA recently conducted their second test of the Orion's Abort Launch System (ALS), bringing them one step closer to returning to the Moon in 2024. The post Orion Capsule Passes Key Launch Abort Test. Next Stop: The Moon...

A joint NASA/NOAA spacecraft that monitors space weather and provides imagery of Earth has been offline for more than a week because of a problem with its positioning system. SpaceNews.com

President Trump just honored the United States' crowning spaceflight achievement, and stressed that the nation will make an even bigger leap in the coming years.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The InSight lander has been on Mars for 213 Sols on its mission to understand the interior of the red planet. It's armed with a seismometer, a temperature and wind sensor, and other instruments. But it's primary instrume...

A satellite built by the National University of Singapore (NUS) entered orbit in June carrying both a high-tech quantum device from the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) and a quotation from a play written for the NU...

A determined bunch of scientists set out to map the moon in preparation of the Apollo landings, but that was only the beginning. A new field of science blossomed, and UA scientists have been involved in nearly every U.S....

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over a swirl of sea ice off the east coast of Greenland in the Irminger Sea, which is just south of the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland....

The Expedition 60 crew explored space biology and radiation exposure aboard the International Space Station today. The orbital residents also filmed a virtual reality experience and oversaw the deployment of a set micros...

The faraway world’s demotion more than a decade ago opened a celestial can of worms --

The first-ever artificial intelligence simulation of the universe seems to work like the real thing -- and is almost as mysterious.

NASA selected eight new research teams to study the moon, near-Earth asteroids and the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos.

An upgrade to the optic technology on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been used to improve the eyesight of humans on Earth.

For the first time, PBS has released rare interviews with the team of astronauts and NASA personnel who brought America to the moon in the 1960s.

Earth observation image of the week: the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over fragments of swirling sea ice off the coast of Greenland

In this week's edition, explore a swirl of sea ice off the east coast of Greenland with Copernicus Sentinel-2

ESA's Mars Express has been keeping an eye on local and regional dust storms brewing at the north pole of the Red Planet over the last month, watching as they disperse towards the equator....

This image was combined of many exposures and captures 'totality' during the 2 July 2019 total solar eclipse....