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The analog dials used to fly a 40-year-old NASA space shuttle have inspired the look of a new, avant-garde timepiece. The UR-100V P.02 wristwatch combines Urwerk's unique approach to displaying time with the aesthetics of Enterprise's flight deck.

Blue Origin sent its billionaire founder Jeff Bezos and three crewmates to suborbital space today (July 20) on the first crewed mission of its New Shepard vehicle.

For people who are disabled and have always dreamed of training to fly to space, the SciAccess Initiative has opened up applications to disabled crew participants for a Zero-G parabolic flight.

An amateur astronomer has discovered a previously unknown moon around Jupiter after poring over old telescope images, a major first.

An attempt to figure out how much emission Jeff Bezos' jaunt into space will produce and whether we should be concerned about it

The world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, will blast into space in his first-ever suborbital flight. But what does that mean, and does it even matter?

Blue Origin will launch its founder Jeff Bezos, his brother and both the oldest and youngest people to fly in space in a historic spaceflight today (July 20).

SpaceX fired up the massive booster rocket for its new Starship spacecraft for the first time Monday night (July 19).

After more than a month offline in orbit, the famed Hubble Space Telescope is back in action and snapping photos of the cosmos.

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and three crewmates received 14 hours of training over the last two days for their launch into space on July 20.

The Perseid meteor shower burst into light this July and will escalate into August as Earth passes through the long trail left by Comet Swift-Tuttle. This month, though, the moon may interfere with the show. Here's how and when to see the Perseids.

After more than a month in safe mode, the Hubble Space Telescope is back online. A wonky power regulator circuit may be to blame.

Here's a look at where the hunt for aliens has been and where it's headed.

The first Asian American to reach space, Ellison Onizuka, who made the ultimate sacrifice in pursuit of NASA's goals, is the namesake for Northrop Grumman's next cargo spacecraft set to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.

The first Blue Origin crew will not wear spacesuits during their 11-minute journey to space and back Tuesday (July 20), according to founder and flight crew member Jeff Bezos.

When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos offered her a seat on the first crewed flight of his space tourism enterprise Blue Origin, it was an invitation aviator Wally Funk had waited six decades to receive.

New images obtained by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) reveal a powerful jet ejected from a supermassive black hole in unprecedented detail.

For Blue Origin, this coming moment has been more than two decades in the making.

Why is the universe the way it is? Over the years, scientists have explored many ways to explain the cosmos, leading to some crazy-sounding ideas.

Despite numerous attempts, astronomers have not yet confirmed the detection of an exomoon, a moon orbiting a planet around a distant star.