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China's Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter is once again delivering stunning imagery, with a new video released to celebrate the lunar New Year.

NASA and SpaceX will hold a joint media teleconference at noon EST Friday, Feb. 4, to provide an update on progress toward the agency's SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station.

Here's how to stay up to date on all of NASA's content for Black History month.

The man who gave us mutant neutrinos that melt the Earth's core hopes his movies will raise awareness over real dangers to our planet.

A streak of purple "lightning" sprawls across the cosmos in a gorgeous new image from NASA.

The parachute system on SpaceX's Dragon capsule hasn't behaved exactly as expected recently, and NASA and SpaceX want to know why.

Students across the country will have three opportunities to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

NASA and SpaceX are studying why parachutes on two consecutive Dragon missions opened late but said they don't believe the issue poses a safety risk. The post NASA and SpaceX say lagging Dragon parachute may be normal ph...

The Standard Model of Cosmology describes how the universe came into being according to the view of most physicists. Researchers at the University of Bonn have now studied the evolution of galaxies within this model, fin...

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei has lived in space continuously for 300 days since launching and docking to the orbiting lab on April 9, 2021....

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Batura Glacier - one of the largest and longest glaciers in the world, outside of the polar regions....

The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is poised to slam into the moon in exactly one month.

NASA will hold a briefing for members of the media to learn more about an airborne science campaign studying snowstorms at 11 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 10. The agency will stream audio of the call live online.

NASA is preparing for the day its astronauts explore the south pole of the moon by heading underwater with the lights out.

NASA and SpaceX will hold announce an update to the agency's next astronaut launch from Florida today (Feb. 4) and you can follow it live online.

Soon, weather scientists will have an even stronger pair of eyes in the sky once a new advanced weather satellite launches this March.

Embark on a mission with ESA astronomers Mark McCaughrean and Giovanna Giardino to learn more about the James Webb Space Telescope and the early Universe.

Life science, robotics and space construction kept the Expedition 66 crew busy aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday....

Research has shown that the Earth trails an asteroid barely a kilometer across in its orbit about the Sun--only the second such body to have ever been spotted. It goes round the Sun on average two months ahead of the Ear...

An international team of researchers has confirmed that a possible microlensing event witnessed in 2011 was due to the presence of a free-floating black hole roaming through interstellar space--the first of its kind ever...

The master of disaster has struck again, and this time our Moon is the ominous villain.   In "Moonfall," film director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012) has created yet another sci-fi disa...

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