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A Russian Soyuz crew capsule that suffered a major coolant leak in December departed from the International Space Station on Tuesday (March 28).

The Hakuto-R spacecraft operated by the Japanese company ispace snapped the image of a sunlit section of the moon following its arrival in lunar orbit on March 20.

Russia's leaky Soyuz spacecraft will depart the space station for the trip to Earth on March 28 and you can watch it live. Here's how.

NASA will kickstart human moon exploration again with the announcement of the Artemis 2 crew of four astronauts on April 3. Three Americans and a Canadian will fly.

The Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander will be one of NASA's most diversely capable planetary exploration craft that will be used to search for signs of life on Saturn's moon Titan.

At least 25 people are dead across the state after a deadly tornado on Sunday (March 26).

A pioneering new experiment uses rockets to study hurricane-like swirls near where Earth's atmosphere meets space.

New measurements by the James Webb Space Telescope found that a rocky exoplanet orbiting a star known as TRAPPIST-1 most likely has no atmosphere.

On March 27, a cosmic parade of five planets, the moon and a star cluster will line up in the night sky. Here's how to see the special event.

Snoopy and NASA's plans for exploring the moon received a "go" to launch as "All Systems Are Go," a new stage show featuring life-size puppets, debuted at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

Mill Creek Entertainment is releasing "The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek" on DVD on April 25.

On March 27, 1989, the Soviet Union's Phobos 2 mission to Mars' moons ended in failure.

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Scientists watched as two stars slowed in their orbits around black holes, concluding it was the result of "drag" generated by dark matter.

Mercury is so strange that astronomers have not been able to explain its properties with simulations of the solar system's formation. But now, researchers have found an important clue.

Cyclone Freddy, which is finally dissipating after battering Southeast Africa, has crossed the entire Indian Ocean and made landfall three separate times.

The universe may be flat, but could still be shaped like a doughnut, weird patterns in leftover light from the Big Bang suggest.

Jean-Jacques Favier, who in 1996 became the sixth astronaut and first scientist from France to launch into space, has died at the age of 73. Favier flew as an STS-78 payload specialist.

Data returns to Trek in "Star Trek: Picard" in episode 6, but didn't he die in Star Trek: Nemesis? Here's how he lives again.