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Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over El Oued, in northeast Algeria, about 80 km west of the border with Tunisia.

Mission team members may stop trying to fix a stuck valve on the LunaH-Map cubesat at the end of the month, according to reports.

A crew of celebrities are set to go where none have gone before. "Well, sort of," says William Shatner, the actor-turned-astronaut who serves in Mission Control for "Stars on Mars," June 5 on Fox.

Astronomers comparing maps of the universe uncovered the nearest example of a black hole devouring a star ever detected.

After the previous launch target date changed due to weather conditions in New Zealand, NASA and Rocket Lab are now targeting 9 p.m. EDT Sunday, May 7, (1 p.m. Monday, May 8, New Zealand Standard Time), to launch two sto...

NASA's ShadowCam instrument has imaged the lunar south pole in great detail, helping shed light on the region where astronauts will land as part of the Artemis 3 mission.

Media accreditation is open for SpaceX's 28th commercial resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station. Liftoff of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft on the company's Falcon 9 rocket is targeted no earlier...

A new NASA animation shows the tremendous scales of supermassive black holes, which have masses millions to billions of times that of the sun and dominate the centers of most galaxies.

Stargazers in Asia and Australia had the best seats for the year's first lunar eclipse.

The four biggest moons of Uranus -- Titania, Oberon, Ariel and Umbriel -- may harbor salty oceans beneath their frozen surfaces, a new study suggests.

As humans contemplate life on other planets, we are immediately confronted with two choices. One is a journey to another solar system that would take tens of thousands of years (with current technology), requiring around...

The story of how Alan Shepard became the first American in space, causing an anxious nation to collectively exhale a sigh of relief.

The annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks on Saturday (May 6) offering skywatchers the chance to see debris from Halley's Comet burn up in Earth's atmosphere.

A small team of astronomers at Université Côte d'Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, working with a colleague from MCCE, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Université, has found more evidence that the moon has an inne...

An interview with director Paul Young on his short film in "Star Wars: Visions Vol. 2"

Pentagon officials have called attention to DoD's need to access commercial space industry services. However, very little of the Space Force's budget is being allocated to these types of services, analyst Mike Tierney sa...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over El Oued, in northeast Algeria, about 80 km west of the border with Tunisia.

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Scientists studying a star system in Orion witnessed one of the most powerful stellar eruptions ever seen -- and it could be devastating to nearby planets.

Find out how SpaceX and NASA have brought back splashdowns in a big way.

Scientific spacecraft programs are too important to the United States' welfare and our leadership in the world to ever shortchange or undervalue them through poor policy decisions The post Society and Technology: The Spa...

The third Guardians of the Galaxy movie is a raw, dark, and sentimental last adventure for James Gunn's endearing band of misfits.