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SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket has flexed its muscles ahead of a planned liftoff this weekend.

China's first space station is now complete in Earth orbit — and on a new set of coins. The People's Bank of China has issued gold and silver coins in celebration of China's Tiangong space station.

NASA's leading planet-hunting spacecraft has spotted its second planet that matches Earth's size and may be able to retain liquid water — and both worlds orbit the same star.

The first-ever orbital rocket launch from British soil failed on Monday (Jan. 9) in a disappointing setback to the country's sovereign space ambitions.

An observer captured the fiery return to Earth of a failed Virgin Orbit rocket on Monday evening (Jan. 9).

A nearby galaxy merger harbors two black holes locked in a cosmic dance, according to new research.

Spacelines From The Far Out is a new video game that simulates commercial space travel, but how realistic is its portrayal? We spoke to space historian and author Rod Pyle to find out.

Virgin Orbit and the United Kingdom Space Agency announced they will investigate the loss of the Launcher One rocket during its first United Kingdom launch attempt.

Kang the Conqueror arrives in the MCU through Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which is kicking off Phase 5. Here’s everything we know about it so far.

French firm's solar sail launched on SpaceX mission last week.

Results shared Jan. 9 at the "Super Bowl of astronomy" highlight how the James Webb Space Telescope is living up to its potential — and how much more is waiting to be unveiled.

Located around 4,000 light years away the massive "oddball" star MWC 349A is ejecting a jet of material at mind-boggling speeds of over a million miles per hour.

NASA and SpaceX are targeting mid-February for the launch of the next commercial crew mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

SpaceX's next Falcon Heavy rocket is in the hangar at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, prepping for a launch in the coming days.

Virgin Orbit suffered an anomaly on its highly anticipated "Start Me Up" launch, the first-ever orbital mission from the U.K.

A massive explosion on the sun unleashed a powerful solar flare from a new sunspot on Monday (Jan. 9), one that is slowly turning to face the Earth.

SpaceX's huge Starship vehicle could go orbital for the first time next month, if all goes according to plan.

SpaceX plans to launch another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Monday night (Jan. 9), and you can watch the action live.

The institution's annual photography competition seeks to find "the most striking images of our cosmos."

A tremendous shockwave several times the size of the Milky Way, launched by a "galactic intruder" forcing its way into the collection of galaxies has kickstarted several mysterious processes.

A vintage NASA satellite launched in the 1980s and long-since turned to space junk met a fiery fate late Sunday as it fell back to Earth, NASA says.