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SpaceX's CRS-35 cargo Dragon will rendezvous with the International Space Station today (Oct. 15) after a two-day chase. Here's how to watch it live.

NASA's DART mission made a cosmic mess four years ago - and now a new spacecraft is ready to scout out exactly what the first-of-its-kind collision accomplished.

A citizen science project is seeking volunteers to comb through NASA telescope data for telltale signs of the galaxy's hidden black holes.

Looking for biosignatures across the solar system requires looking for asymmetry. Amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, are famously either left-handed (L) or right-handed (D). We know abiotic processes (i.e. tho...

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The ESA's Euclid space telescope was launched in July, 2026, and its mission is to observe billions of galaxies. The goal is to measure their redshifts over 10 billion years of Universal expansion, to better understa...

Japan just launched an epic mission to Mars' moons that could make history as the first spacecraft to return to Earth from the Red Planet - and it plans to come back with samples onboard.

On Oct. 19, 2016, the European Space Agency's ExoMars orbiter and Schiaparelli arrived at Mars! Here's why it mattered.

One new study shows how much the moon has diminished over time.

Research teams at the NASA Glenn Research Center perform experiments in world-class facilities such as the 9- by 15-Foot Low-Speed Wind Tunnel (9 x15 LSWT), the Aero-Acoustic Propulsion Laboratory (AAPL), the Small Hot J...

The four crew members in NASAs simulated Mars mission have spent the past year living and working in isolation in a confined habitat at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Supermassive black holes power tremendous jets that extend far beyond their galaxy. A new study finds how they can also warm material at the outer edge of a galaxy and reduce the rate of star production over time.

Researchers have confirmed the existence of the first microblazar. Unlike blazars, which are extragalctic and powered by supermassive black holes, microblazars are inside the Milky Way, and are powered by stellar mass bl...

SAN FRANCISCO -Spanish startup UARX Space is remedying anomalies identified during the maiden flight of OSSIE-D, an orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) launched Oct. 1 aboard SpaceXs Transporter-18 mission. At least [] The po...

NASAs Curiosity captures the dawn on Mars - as well as elongated ridges formed by wind erosion, or yardangs - in this close-up from a panorama released on Oct. 6, 2026. This is the most detailed view yet of distant, wind...

Using NASAs SPHEREx spacecraft, astronomers have studied a horde of mysterious "failed stars," or brown dwarfs, not-so-stellar loners that wander the darkness of space alone.

The aurora is among nature's most visually striking phenomena. It occurs when charged particles from the sun are funneled by Earth's magnetic field into the upper atmosphere, where they collide with atoms and mol...

The European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite mission captured a close-up of West Antarctica from its perch high above Earth.

The European Space Agencys Euclid space telescope has discovered its first previously unknown comet, in images taken between 16 and 24 September 2026.

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has discovered its first previously unknown comet in images taken between Sept. 16 and 24, 2026.

Known as the giant-impact hypothesis, this proposed event involves a collision between Earth and a hypothetical Mars-sized protoplanet astronomers call Theia.

Japan will launch its audacious MMX sample-return mission to Mars today (Oct. 19), and you can watch the historic action live.