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The growing strength of Tropical Storm Ian has forced NASA to call off its Artemis 1 moon rocket launch on Sept. 27 and prepare to leave the launch pad.

A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 52 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Saturday at 7:32 p.m. EDT (2332 GMT). Watch it live here.

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket will launch a U.S. spy satellite on Saturday (Sept. 24), and you can watch it live. Liftoff is scheduled for 5:53 p.m. EDT (2153 GMT).

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team of researchers led by Monash University in Australia have verified the existence of a rare hexagonal structure of ...

A NASA spacecraft will soon make history when it crashes into an asteroid in the world's first planetary defense test. Here's what time it will happen and how to watch.

This next week will mark a scientifically valuable achievement for NASA's Juno mission, as the pioneering spacecraft is slated to fly within 358 kilometers (222 miles) of Jupiter's icy moon Europa on September 29 at 5:36...

James Webb is currently experiencing problems with its MIRI instrument. The problem is due to increased friction in one of MIRI’s mechanisms in the Medium-Resolution Spectroscopy (MRS) mode. The observatory is otherwis...

NASA has called off the scheduled Tuesday launch of its historic uncrewed mission to the Moon due to a tropical storm that is forecast to strengthen as it approaches Florida.

NASA has called off plans to attempt to launch the Artemis 1 mission on Sept. 27 as a tropical storm, with the potential to become a major hurricane, heads for Florida. The post NASA postpones Artemis 1 launch because of...

Neptune and its rings haven't looked this good in decades.

The Pythagorean Theorem troubled the devoted followers of the Greek philosopher, who built a worldview based on numbers.

For NASA's DART spacecraft, the drama happens in space, but mission success relies on telescopes back on Earth.

The Virtual Telescope Project will attempt to show DART's impact through its network of ground-based telescopes.

This app-enabled telescope comes with the usual Celestron quality and is a handy £50 off on Wex Photo Video with a discount for US-based astronomers, too.