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NASA's Space Launch System megarocket aced its first-ever liftoff late last year and appears ready to take the next big step — launching astronauts.

The first-ever satellite designed to detect major emitters of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is set to launch to space this year.

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The icy Saturn moon Mimas may have a geologically young internal ocean surrounded by a thinning ice shell, new research suggests.

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Magnetic properties of coronal holes in the sun's atmosphere can help forecast the severity of geomagnetic storms that hit Earth.

Scientists think it may have come from another solar system.

Find out what's going on at the International Space Station.

On Feb. 2, 1967, the U.S. Air Force launched a top-secret surveillance satellite called Keyhole 7-36 (KH-7)

Marvel Comics has released a first fearful look at a new "Alien" comic coming this spring.

British start-up Gravitilab has performed a first microgravity experiment with its customized quadcopter and specially designed microgravity capsule.

At the moment, the European Space Agency doesn't have the money or the political "green light" for crewed missions to China's Tiangong space station.

Even as the James Webb Space Telescope is allowing astronomers to see inside vast, distant galaxies, it's also studying some tiny, nearby objects, albeit inadvertently.

SpaceX launched 53 of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit early Thursday morning (Feb. 2).

NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and Japan's Koichi Wakata are scheduled to make the second spacewalk of 2023 on Thursday morning (Feb. 2), and you can watch it live.

SYFY's new space survival series "The Ark" launches tonight with a spaceship disaster waking passengers from cryogenic hibernation.

The full moon of February, called the Snow Moon, will arrive Wednesday (Feb. 16) at 11:57 a.m. EST (0457 GMT).

A newly released image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows a crowded field of galaxies and stars, with a distant spiral galaxy standing out in stunning detail.

Astronomers have figured out how a massive star fizzled out like a dud firecracker.

Collins, who died in 2021 at age 90, was the first person to orbit the moon solo during Apollo 11 in 1969.