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It's very possible to photograph the ISS, but you need to know where the International Space Station is, and how to track it. Our guide explains it all

People have long claimed they can hear the northern lights, saying the sounds include eerie whizzing, crackling and buzzing. Is it just an auditory illusion?

Inside a huge crater in Israel's sun-baked Negev desert, a team wearing space suits ventures forth on a mission to simulate conditions on Mars.

Their delicate galactic dance takes place more than 100 million light-years from Earth. The lower galaxy, NGC 5953, is tugging at NGC 5954, which appears to be extending one spiral arm downward....

"Star Trek: Prodigy," Paramount+'s new animated Trek show, wowed the New York Comic Con crowed with its first full-length episode.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a new inflated, low-density "hot Jupiter" exoplanet. The newly found alien world, designated TIC 257060897b, is about 50 percent larg...

The remains of a V2 rocket fired by Nazi Germany at London during World War II have been unearthed in a field in the southeast of England, where it crashed and exploded before reaching its target.

The new satellite is the first designed and built by the Australian Research Council Training Centre for Cubesats, UAVs, and their Applications (or CUAVA for short).

Untangling all the different space travel methods to move across the Marvel universe.

The Expedition 65 crew focused on a variety of advanced housekeeping activities today aboard the International Space Station....

The Space Development Agency on Oct. 8 issued a draft request for bids for 18 satellites that will carry experimental payloads. SpaceNews

Using the world's most powerful radio antenna, scientists have discovered stars unexpectedly blasting out radio waves, possibly indicating the existence of hidden planets.

Space manufacturing starting Varda Space will launch its first spacecraft on a Falcon 9 in early 2023 to demonstrate the ability to produce a wide range of materials in microgravity. SpaceNews

An international team of astronomers has unveiled the nature of hundreds of gamma-ray emitting sources, discovering that most of them belong to the class of active galaxies known as blazars.

Since the Cumbre Vieja volcano began erupting on 19 September 2021, lava has burned through homes, roads and farmlands causing mass destruction on the west part of the Canary Island of La Palma. Satellite imagery has hel...

Kicking off with a bold flourish, Φ-week 2021 promises to bring space even closer to the forefront of addressing society's biggest challenges, namely issues associated with the climate crisis, while boosting the economy...

Rocket Lab will launch a NASA technology demonstration satellite under an unconventional arrangement as the agency works on a more standardized approach for launching smallsats. SpaceNews

Enter astrophotography competitions to get your work noticed by some of the world's most prestigious photographic institutions

The new heart of ESA's Planetary Defence Office was inaugurated today, heralding a new chapter in the Agency's work to protect Earth from dangerous near-Earth objects, aka asteroids.

Thomas Pesquet Bright orange lava sticks out an night, and drak grey smoke and ash sticks out during the day. The LaPalma volcano in the Canary Islands is making itself known to the world....

Ingenuity and inspiration drive NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge....

Technicians have loaded the last of 10 CubeSats into the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket's five-foot-tall Orion stage adapter at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida....