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NASA's newest Mars rover has just left the nest.

Venus, Jupiter's supervolcanic moon Io and Neptune's big satellite Triton are in NASA's crosshairs.

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane arrived at the company's spaceport in New Mexico Feb. 13, ready for a final series of test flights before the company starts commercial operations. SpaceNews.com

Northrop Grumman's Valentine's Day cargo launch to the International Space Station has been delayed by at least 24 hours due to high winds, NASA says.

The promotion for Pearl Jam's new record "Gigaton" is full of cosmic visuals and a "Superblood Wolfmoon" AR Experience.

NASA has selected Rocket Lab of Huntington Beach, California, to provide launch services for the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) CubeSat.

The company's newest SpaceShipTwo vehicle, VSS Unity, arrived yesterday (Feb. 13) at Spaceport America in New Mexico, the hub of Virgin Galactic's commercial operations.

Media accreditation is open for an opportunity to view the Artemis I Orion spacecraft following completion of testing at NASA's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio.

The more astronomers consider the advent of satellite megaconstellations, the more anxious they get.

With its selection of four candidates for its coveted Discovery class of interplanetary missions, the space agency seeks to handle some unfinished business --

The nearby red supergiant has been dimming for a while now, but its exact fate is still unknown.

For Valentine's Day, we bring you this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image capturing a beautiful heart-shaped geographical formation in the dramatic landscape of the southern highlands of Bolivia....

One of the most pressing problems when it comes to keeping our planet safe from space threats is data, which sounds so simple to address. It's not.

Astronomers simulated what humans will see on Earth when the star Betelgeuse explodes as a supernova sometime in the next 100,000 years.

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. The stunning new images of the star's surface show not only ...

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft safely executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of the backup sample collection site Osprey as part of the mission's Reconnaissance B phase activities. Preliminary telemetry, however, indicates th...

Planetary scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the secrets of the atmosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. The team found a chemical footprint in Titan's atmosphere in...

NASA has selected four Discovery Program investigations to develop concept studies for new missions. Although they're not official missions yet and some ultimately may not be chosen to move forward, the selections focus ...

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Stars generate energy through nuclear fusion. Here's an easy explanation into how the process works.

China has quietly begun preparations to launch a new range of Long March rockets to boost its space capabilities and carry out major projects.