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The dark skies of the new moon will offer skywatchers the chance to spot Ceres tonight (March 21), as the dwarf planet reaches opposition.

Rocket Lab plans to launch two satellites early Wednesday morning (March 22), on a mission that includes a booster recovery at sea. Watch it live here.

On March 21, 1965, NASA launched the Ranger 9 spacecraft on a mission to crash into a lunar crater.

The 212-foot-tall core stage of NASA's Space Launch System rocket that will send the first human crew since the Apollo era to the moon next year has been put together.

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First hibernation studies with human subjects could be feasible within a decade, a European Space Agency (ESA) researcher thinks.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured what might be 'the tallest tornado' in the solar system swirling across the north pole of the sun.

A stricken Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) instrument is back online, but NASA officials did not disclose a cause for the issue during commissioning.

The Uranus moons Ariel and Miranda may have active oceans blasting plumes of particles into space, a new look at data collected by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft suggests.

Space.com and Paramount are teaming together to offer a chance to win a free Blu-Ray Steelbook edition of the critically-acclaimed first season.

A new method could allow astronomers to assess exoplanets' likely subsurface water stores, aiding the search for worlds capable of supporting life as we know it.

Astronomers have completed the first map of water distribution on the moon, including that more water is found in shaded lunar regions than in sunlit ones.

Launch company Virgin Orbit is engaging companies for discussions after furloughing most of its staff last week, according to media reports.

Even quiet red dwarfs are prone to extreme outbursts that put our sun to shame, with significant implications on the search for alien life.

Variety interviewed William Shatner for his new life-spanning documentary 'You Can Call Me Bill.'

An image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures an irregular spiral galaxy known as NGC 5486, which lies close to the much larger and well-known Pinwheel Galaxy.

New James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal that the galaxy GS-9209 had its star-forming power abruptly “quenched” by mysterious forces after millions of years of productivity.

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On March 20 at 5:24 p.m. EDT (2:24 p.m. PDT) the spring (or vernal) equinox occurs as the sun's rays shine directly down on the equator.