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Thanks to 26 teams of observers, spotting a star blink out showed that asteroid Polymele has a moon.

Artemis 3 is a planned landing mission that will put humans on the surface of the moon. It is scheduled to touch down in 2025, assuming previous missions go to plan.

The Japanese company Sky Perfect JSat has chosen Starship to launch its Superbird-9 communications satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit in 2024.

Disney/Lucasfilm brings back "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" in IMAX this month for select screenings

NASA will unveil potential future landing sites for human return on the surface of the moon and you can watch the briefing on Space.com tomorrow (Aug. 19), or directly on the space agency's website.

NASA's Space Flight Awareness program has a created a new Snoopy poster based on an old design.

Artemis 2 will launch a crew of astronauts to the moon's orbit in a system using the Space Launch System megarocket and Orion spacecraft.

NASA's twin probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have been exploring the cosmos for 45 years. Here, we take a look at some of their best images.

Save over $13 on a 1:200 scale model rocket that's easy-to-assemble and perfect for beginners.

Three mannequins and several biological and radiation experiments will assess the radiation environment near the moon during Artemis 1.

NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission is the first-ever space mission designed to test planetary defense technologies in asteroid deflection.

The OMOTENASHI mission is the only secondary payload on Artemis 1 that will have a controlled landing on the surface of the moon.

NASA's Europa Clipper probe, which will look for traces of life on Jupiter's ice-covered moon Europa, is coming together at an assembly lab that saw the birth of some of the space agency's most iconic missions.

NASA has already identified its top candidate panelists for the UFO study, which is expected to begin this fall and last about nine months.

Astronomers are looking for clouds made of vaporized gems and metals on faraway exoplanets.

On the morning of Friday (Aug. 18), the moon and Mars will both be visible in the eastern sky.

A 66 million-year-old impact crater has been discovered off the coast of West Africa, raising questions about just how many deadly space rocks the dinosaurs had to deal with.

New research suggests that the expansion of the universe could be measured using colliding black holes as 'spectral sirens.'

China is continuing to boost its options for launching small satellites with a new rocket called the Smart Dragon 3, which is expected to fly for the first time soon.

A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule will leave the International Space Station Thursday morning (Aug. 18), and you can watch the departure live.

A Russian spacewalk outside the International Space Station ended early today (Aug. 17) after a cosmonaut suffered a problem with his suit.