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Suborbital space tourism provider Virgin Galactic announced a deal Wednesday (July 6) to build a new set of carrier planes.

Mercury is a rather weird planet that constantly intrigues scientists. Learn more about the planet closest to the sun with these 10 interesting facts.

The moon is covered by impact craters large and small, evidence of a violent history of bombardment by celestial bodies like comets and asteroids. But these craters only record some of lunar history.

The operation tested a new waste-disposal system for the International Space Station, echoing techniques used during the 1980s and 1990s.

The latest version of the Olympus E-M10 mirrorless camera looks to capture the entry-level market with affordability and versatility, we find out if it's up to the job.

Find Lego deals on Marvel, Star Wars, DC or space sets over the Amazon Prime Day event.

Comet K2 might be visible next week: here's how to take stunning astrophotographs of it using camera gear you likely already own.

Two sounding rockets are launching with experiments to assess the habitability of Alpha Centauri while also teaching us about how normal the sun is.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will fly for a record-tying 13th time on Thursday morning (July 7), and you can watch the action live.

Fast radio bursts are blasts of energy that emerge from unknown sources millions to billions of light-years away that can be used to probe the characteristics of galaxies closer to home.

The stars of the Summer Triangle asterism — Vega, Deneb and Altair — will be well-placed throughout July, rising above the eastern horizon after dusk.

Space is filled with a variety of objects, some blisteringly hot, some tremendously cold, but areas with little to nothing at all never drop to absolute zero thanks to a fossil relic left over from its earliest moments.

We may not have to wait too much longer for the first-ever orbital test flight of SpaceX's Starship deep-space transportation system.

The massive eruption from the underwater Tonga volcano earlier this year generated a blast so powerful, it sent the fastest pressure waves ever observed in our atmosphere rippling around the globe.

Astrophysicists are puzzled by the discovery of a star whipping around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way in close proximity and faster than any star previously found.

An early-stage Martian sailplane soared aloft, tethered to a balloon, as engineers ponder the possibilities to expand Red Planet flight.

A space rock at least the size of a bus will safely whiz by our planet today, and you can watch the event on a free livestream.

NASA's tiny CAPSTONE moon probe is back in touch with its handlers, ending a short but spooky silent period.

When a tiny space rock hit the asteroid Bennu, it caused a landslide across the space rock and a massive crater.

Earth's magnetic field originates in the outer core and extends out into the magnetosphere — a region of space that helps protect Earth from space weather.

Operators lost contact with the moon-bound CAPSTONE satellite yesterday (July 5) after initially completing a set of tasks following its separation from the rocket upper stage.