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Astronomers have used the Chandra X-ray telescope to observe an exoplanet as it disintegrates because its parent star is bombarding it with radiation.

A lunar eclipse was seen over the U.S. Naval Observatory Deep South Telescope in Chile.

Workers from within NASA will protest the space agency leadership's "preemptive over-compliance" of the White House's proposed budget, gutting science and eliminating jobs.

A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates.

Find out what you can see in the night sky for tonight, from planets and stars to dazzling meteor showers.

Superman is full of awesome sci-fi elements, but the most fascinating one might be Lex Luthor's pocket dimension. How does that even work?

Soil excavated from the moon could be used to produce oxygen and methane, which could be used by lunar settlers for breathing and for rocket fuel.

China has taken a new step in its long-term planning for lunar exploration with the completion of a "simulated moon underground space."

The European Space Agency is funding the development of a hypersonic space plane pathfinder, which will start flying by 2031, if all goes according to plan.

The basaltic meteorite is a piece of lunar rock that formed in a lava flow 2.35 billion years ago, long after volcanism on the moon was supposed to have ended.