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The new phase was made by firing lasers at 10 ytterbium ions inside a quantum computer.

The Haughton-Mars Project is planting flags and leaving footprints, but in a very different way than Apollo astronauts did on the moon.

Hard science fiction author Eric Choi talks about the inspiration behind the stories in his new collection, "Just Like Being There", which draws from many real-life space stories.

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a star-studded cluster in the constellation Sagittarius.

Exoplanet images might be contaminated by the light from their neighbors, a new study suggests, but scientists are learning how to remove the effects of these photobombers.

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship returned to Earth with an ocean splashdown on Saturday (Aug. 20).

The twin probes, launched in 1977, made groundbreaking discoveries about the solar system and inspired future space missions.

Firefly Aerospace is ready to get back to space, the company said, after completing a static fire test before sending its Alpha rocket into space again next month.

The European Space Agency will ask its member states to fund a preparatory space-based solar power program at a major meeting later this year.

China launched three classified remote sensing satellites on Friday (Aug. 19), which are joining three earlier sets of Yaogan 35 series reconnaissance satellites in orbit.

A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission is all set to make a short trip to space to test new technologies and collect new information from remains of an exploded star.

Debris from the most spectacular comet outburst ever is visible from Earth this month and astronomers hope the observations might shed light on the puzzling event that brightened up the sky in 2007.

We now know where on the moon NASA astronauts will set foot after more than 50 years' absence.

A loud explosion heard Saturday (Aug. 13) in Utah may have been an exploding Perseid meteor.

Rocket Lab aims to send a probe to Venus soon, and a new paper lays out the details of the ambitious mission.

British rocket startup Skyrora completed a static fire engine test of the second stage of its orbital rocket, paving the way for a debut launch in 2023.

Being in an environment such as the simulated Martian landscape of the Haughton-Mars Project in the Arctic magnifies what would normally be small problems.

Four astrophysics mission proposals to study stars, galaxies and some of the most violent explosions in the universe have been selected for further study by NASA.

The most massive known star in the universe has been photographed in the greatest detail to date and it might be smaller than astronomers previously thought.

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Donald Edward Machholz was an American amateur astronomer who was the leading visual comet discoverer, credited with the visual discovery of 12 comets that bear his name.