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The growing problem of space junk poses a risk to future space missions, but the solution isn't going to be easy.

Jupiter may be the bully planet of our solar system because it's the most massive planet, but it's actually a runt compared to many of the giant planets found around other stars....

The following are statements from Margaret Vo Schaus, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy on Friday's U.S. Senate confirmation of Schaus as NASA's chief financial officer:

NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch, launch, and docking activities for the agency's Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission to the International Space Station.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

A staple of mythology, the hero Hercules has a strange celestial story.

Three astronauts on China's new space station have performed the country's first spacewalk and are busy configuring the module for future crews.

A dramatic triplet of galaxies takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which captures a three-way gravitational tug-of-war between interacting galaxies. This system--known as Arp 195--i...

A sophisticated telecommunications satellite that can be completely repurposed while in space has launched.

See photos of Boeing's Orbital Flight Test 2 mission, the second uncrewed test flight of its Starliner astronaut taxi.

An Ariane 5 successfully launched two commercial communications satellites July 30 in the first flight of the rocket in nearly a year, and the first of two missions before it launches a NASA space telescope. SpaceNews