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SpaceX will lose 40 Starlink satellites to a geomagnetic storm as solar activity ramps up. But does this spell disaster for the future of satellites in space?

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has to stay super cool to observe the cosmos. How does it beat the heat? Black paint.

A streak of purple "lightning" sprawls across the cosmos in a gorgeous new image from NASA.

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins is preparing to make history as the first Black woman to embark on an extended mission in space.

NASA's first Artemis moon mission will have to wait to launch.

A powerful solar flare has been traveling through space and it will arrive at planet Earth Wednesday (Feb. 2).

In 2020, astronomers thought they'd found something incredible: the second so-called Earth Trojan asteroid ever seen. Now, a new team of researchers has confirmed that it's real.

The Hubble Space Telescope snapped a stellar look at a strange cosmic starburst.

A Mars probe has snapped a peculiar image of the Red Planet's surface that looks like a giant tree stump, rings and all.

SpaceX has won a contract, worth over $102 million, to transport military supplies and humanitarian aid around the world using a rocket.

Could we send a spacecraft to the giant, cigar-shaped interstellar interloper 'Oumuamua? Should we?

Sci-fi fan-favorite Alan Tudyk is here to save humankind with pizza.

It's been a month since the James Webb Space Telescope launched to space. Revisit its last days on Earth in a stunning new timelapse video.

After traveling almost a million miles, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reached its final destination today (Jan. 24).

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has temporarily stopped its science observations while the mission team investigates an issue.

A SpaceX resupply ship will have to wait at least one more day before returning to Earth.

Tonga's volcanic eruption has left behind damage so severe that satellites can see it from space.

Satellites orbiting Earth captured a powerful undersea eruption in Tonga from space on Thursday (Jan. 13).

2021 was another record-setting year, ranking as the sixth hottest year on record. Following a trend, these past eight years have also been the eight hottest years on record.

A rare type of white dwarf star has been erupting in the most extreme superflares of its kind ever seen, researchers find in a new study.

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is leaking.

A newly discovered "mini" supermassive black hole could help reveal some of the secrets behind the biggest black holes in the cosmos.

Stretching thousands of light-years across the Milky Way, a newly discovered filament of hydrogen named Maggie is one of the biggest structures ever discovered in our galaxy.

A meteor hurtling through Earth's atmosphere exploded over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on New Year's Day (Jan. 1).

Thanks to images from a robotic Earth telescope, you can now watch the James Webb Space Telescope travel through space.