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California residents spent an anxious weekend tracking the path of a wildfire through Sonoma County north of San Francisco Bay -- and satellites have been watching along with locals.

Virgin Galactic has landed on Wall Street. The private spaceflight company went public on the New York Stock Exchange today (Oct. 28) after completing a merger with the investment firm Social Capital Hedosophia last week...

You can catch Uranus, one of the solar system's most distant planets, at its brightest tonight.

Jessica Meir, Christina Koch and Drew Morgan played a little baseball aboard the International Space Station recently to celebrate the ongoing Fall Classic, which pits the Washington Nationals against the Houston Astros.

The mole's up-and-down Mars saga has taken yet another turn.

Samsung's outer space selfie device has crash-landed in Michigan.

The history of our Solar System is punctuated with collisions. Collisions helped create the terrestrial planets and end the reign of the dinosaurs. And a massive collision between Earth and an ancient body named Theia li...

The service, called Eutelsat IoT First, precedes a low-Earth-orbit constellation of 25 smallsats and hosted payloads Eutelsat plans to begin launching next year. SpaceNews.com

"This series is an alternate history." So begins the disclaimer at the end of each episode of "For All Mankind," a space race drama debuting with Apple TV+.

NASA will broadcast the departure of a Japanese cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station beginning at 1 p.m. EDT Friday, Nov. 1, on NASA Television and the agency's website.

The long-sought, elusive ultra-high-energy neutrinos--ghost-like particles that travel cosmological-scale distances--are key to understanding the Universe at the highest energies. Detecting them is challenging, but the G...

The asteroid Hygiea may qualify as a dwarf planet -- and it could steal the title of the smallest dwarf planet in the solar system!

Astronomers are getting closer to figuring out where the dividing line lies between neutron stars and black holes --

An exclusive clip from PBS shows the difficult conversations that took place before the fatal Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986, which killed seven astronauts during launch.

In celebration of Halloween, this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures two galaxies of equal size in a collision that appears to resemble a ghostly face....

After making progress over the past several weeks digging into the surface of Mars, InSight's mole has backed about halfway out of its hole this past weekend....

Astronomers using ESO's SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the asteroid Hygiea could be classified as a dwarf planet. The object is the fourth largest in the asteroid belt after Ceres,...

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A new space telescope will open up an unprecedented view of the universe in ultraviolet light. The ULTRASAT satellite will provide fundamental new insights into high-energy phenomena such as supernova explosions, collidi...

A new instrument on the 4-m Mayall telescope has opened its array of thousands of fiber-optic "eyes" to the cosmos and successfully captured the light from distant galaxies. The milestone marks the beginning of final tes...

A previously unobserved mechanism is at work in the Sun's rotating plasma: a magnetic instability, which scientists had thought was physically impossible under these conditions. The effect might even play a crucial role ...

In celebration of Halloween, this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures two galaxies of equal size in a collision that appears to resemble a ghostly face. This observation was made on 19 June 2019 i...