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It's not often that the sudden appearance of a new impact crater on the Moon can be predicted, but it's going to happen on March 4, when a derelict SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will crash into it.

One of China's newest launch startups has been raising serious amounts of money for its range of increasingly complex "Gravity" launch vehicles.

On 15 September 2021, the EXI camera system onboard the EMM mission obtained a set of multispectral images of this fully illuminated hemisphere of Mars....

In a case of celestial mistaken identity, a spent upper stage that will crash on the far side of the moon in March is now linked to a Chinese launch in 2014, not a SpaceX launch of an Earth and space science satellite in...

Elon Musk delivered updates on SpaceX's efforts to develop its interplanetary Starship rocket on Thursday night, but stopped short of announcing a firm launch date for an orbital test or new missions, despite considerabl...

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

Fine-tuning the James Webb Space Telescope, a different view of Venus, and the science on an upcoming space station resupply mission ... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA....

In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You'll push the boundaries with today’s topic: the heliosphere! If you want a handy definition of what's "inside" the solar system, th...

Companies create rewards programs to boost employee performance. But scientists know that using social comparisons to motivate behavior can seriously backfire.

India's first launch of 2022 will send a new Earth observation satellite to space after a sibling satellite was lost last year.

When two galaxies are in the process of merging, the gravitational interaction can trigger waves of star formation....

The coast of Turkmenistan and the Turkmenbashi Gulf on the Caspian Sea are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 265 miles above the Central Asian nation....