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NASA's Curiosity rover has found a diverse mix of organic molecules on Mars, including chemicals considered building blocks for the origin of life on Earth.

A Falcon 9 streaks through a sky filled by the Milky Way in this long duration streak shot. It carried a Global Positioning System satellite for the U.S. Space Force. Photo: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now.

The U.S. Space Force launched its final Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellite into medium Earth orbit in the predawn hours of Tuesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

NASA engineers have shut down another instrument on Voyager 1 to preserve the power of the most distant spacecraft ever sent into space.

The ring system of Saturn is one of the most magnificent and recognizable features in our solar system. The rings are not solid, but are made up of billions of small pieces of ice and rock ranging in size from tiny dust particles to chunks as large as mountains. These particles orbit Saturn at different speeds, giving the rings their distinctive appearance.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California on April 19. The mission featured the 600th landing of a Falcon first stage.

A huge geological structure on Mars resembling a bathtub ring may be evidence of an ocean that once covered a third of the Red Planet.

It turns out that living in space can have a lasting impact on how your brain works, researchers have found.

These global night sky cams let you hunt for Lyrids from the comfort of your own home.

Spectators along the beach in Cape Canaveral, Florida, enjoy a spectacular Sunday morning launch, taking in the view of a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket blasting off carrying a next-generation cellular broadband satellite. The company said later the AST SpaceMobile Bluebird 7 satellite ended up in the wrong orbit. Photo: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now.

Blue Origin launched the company’s third New Glenn rocket Sunday, re-flying and successfully recovering a previously used first stage. But the rocket’s payload, a direct-to-cellphone communications satellite, ended up in the wrong orbit, the company said.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope looked at a scene it first captured in 1997 in honour of 36th anniversary: a small portion of a star-forming region about 5000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, known as the Trifid Nebula. The image shows changes over incredibly short timescales and instills a sense of awe and wonder about our ever-changing Universe.

'I'm honored to be a part of the team continuing this adventure for a new generation of Starfighters, both young and old.'

The Lyrid meteor shower peak is almost here, and we may be in store for spectacular fireballs and shooting stars.

State-of-the-art simulations shed light on how galaxies die — and how we can determine the cause of death.

Our universe is full of mysteries, but few are as perplexing as the dark, tiny galaxies that hover around larger ones like the Milky Way.

A remote Antarctic research team became the only people on Earth to witness a rare annular solar eclipse — and one scientist had to improvise to capture it.

SpaceX will launch a new GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force early Tuesday morning (April 21), and you can watch the action live.

Blue Origin, the space launch company founded by Jeff Bezos, achieved a successful recovery of its first reused orbital-class rocket, but the payload it put into space was left in the wrong location.

In space, no one can hear you ask for sun cream