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The BepiColombo spacecraft - a joint project by the European and Japanese space agencies - swung by its destination planet Mercury in the early hours of Oct. 2.

NASA's next asteroid-bound mission to explore the earliest days of our solar system is nearly ready to launch.

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Klaus Hasselmann helped to shape a ground-breaking Earth-observation space mission that paved the way for the modern study of our planet's environment.

Blue Origin announced Sunday it was delaying an upcoming flight set to carry actor William Shatner to space due to anticipated winds.

The Great Red Spot of Jupiter – the largest storm in the solar system – has been raging for centuries. Over the past 100 years however, the cyclone has been dwindling, but recent observations with Hubble show that th...

Blue Origin has pushed the next launch of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle, which will carry Shatner and three other people, from Tuesday (Oct. 12) to Wednesday (Oct. 13) due to weather concerns.

SpaceCast Weekly is a NASA Television broadcast from the Johnson Space Center in Houston featuring stories about NASA's work in human spaceflight....

In the short time since NASA's Perseverance rover landed in Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021, it's already made history.