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A robotic spacecraft will crash into the asteroid Dimorphos in an attempt to alter its trajectory.

The central region of the Milky Way is densely packed with stars and difficult to observe. New findings reveal how stars in this area formed and then drifted apart as star birth traveled outwards.

A U.S. appeals court Aug. 26 upheld the Federal Communications Commission's year-old decision to let SpaceX deploy more satellites at lower altitudes to improve the Starlink broadband constellation's performance. The pos...

The head of NASA's science program told Space.com how the agency hopes to pivot the human work to Mars exploration.

The first phase of NASA's Artemis mission, an uncrewed test flight around the moon, was scheduled to launch this Monday (29 August 2022). The third phase, scheduled for 2025, will see humans land on the moon for the firs...

An experiment prepared by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will launch as part of NASA's scheduled Artemis I mission to orbit the moon Aug. 29.

On Monday, Aug. 29, NASA plans to launch its Orion spacecraft from the world's most powerful rocket for a trip around the moon. This launch of the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission is a step toward the goal of landing people on...

How will we grow food in space? That's one question Michigan State University's Federica Brandizzi has been particularly interested in solving.

The Allen Telescope Array in California detected signal from the Voyager 1 probe, a NASA satellite launched 45 year ago that is currently speeding toward the outer edges of the solar system.

Krispy Kreme is celebrating NASA's Artemis 1 launch with a doughnut inspired by the mission's destination. The "Artemis Moon Doughnut" goes on sale the same day NASA lifts off for the moon.

The Artemis I mission, set to launch on 29 August, will mark a significant step in humankind's return to the moon.

Earendel started shining just 900 million years after the Big Bang and is only observable because of an extraordinary cosmic coincidence.

Because of the orbiters and landers that have studied Mars over the years, scientists have learned that water ice is very likely locked away just under the surface throughout the planet’s mid-latitudes. These regions -...

NASA's mega moon mission continues pushing for a Monday (Aug. 29) launch opportunity, as the lunar spacecraft gets buttoned up for liftoff.

NASA's Artemis 1 SLS rocket launch to the moon is scheduled to launch on Aug. 29, but could slip to Sept. 2 or Sept. 5 due to weather or glitches.

Next Monday's Artemis launch will be an uncrewed first flight, headed into orbit around the moon. Yet technology previously worn by ESA astronauts on the International Space Station has also been hard-mounted aboard the ...

Save the date: this year's 11th annual ESA Open Day at ESTEC in the Netherlands is confirmed to take place on Sunday 2 October. One of a string of 'ESA Days' across Member States, this is the day when the gates of the Ag...

Nichelle Nichols, who blazed a trail for Black actors as Lieutenant Uhura on the original "Star Trek," never got to go to space while she was alive--but her ashes and her DNA are due to reach the final frontier as early ...

Week in images: 22-26 August 2022 Discover our week through the lens

Russia's only active female cosmonaut, Anna Kikina, said Friday she was ready for her upcoming flight to the International Space Station aboard Space X's Crew Dragon.

Image: The Orion spacecraft with integrated European Service Module sit atop the Space Launch System, imaged at sunrise at historic Launchpad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. The Flight Readiness Review has d...

The first flight of the Space Launch System will carry along with the Orion spacecraft 10 cubesats intended to carry out missions from prospecting for lunar ice to flying by an asteroid -- if they're not dead on arrival....