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China launched the first of a pair of radar satellites that will provide important geological data following earthquakes and landslides.

The first animals reached space in 1947, but it wasn't until 1960 that animals orbited Earth and landed safely.

NASA released a new video today (Jan. 27) to remember the three crews and other fallen astronauts who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration.

New evidence finds substantial water on Mars flowed as recently as 2 billion years ago.

Astroscale has suspended its ELSA-d demonstration mission in Earth orbit after detecting "anomalous spacecraft conditions," the Japanese startup announced on Twitter Wednesday (Jan. 26).

The particle was found by smashing billions of lead atoms into each other at extreme speeds.

Three months after launch, a new NASA asteroid spacecraft is still getting settled into its life beyond Earth.

Many sci-fi movie monsters have tried to end the human race, but which ones should we really be worried about?

Inside the latest issue of All About Space is our complete guide to exoplanets where we peer into the most extreme alien worlds and hunt for Earth 2.0.

Sirius, also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A, is the brightest star in Earth's night sky. The name means "glowing" in Greek — a fitting description, as only a few planets and the International Space Station outshine this star.

On the 55th anniversary of NASA's fatal Apollo 1 fire, the agency's lessons learned live on as Orion aims for the moon.

Keep this list of the best space movies handy for the next time you feel the need to escape from the reality of Earth.

A two-stage SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with the CSG-2 radar satellite is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Thursday (Jan. 27) at 6:11 p.m. EST (2311 GMT).

A big kit with big fun – the Lego NASA Space Shuttle Discovery set is an enjoyable build that it out of this world.

What is the sun made of? In several layers, hot gases are converted into energy and released as heat and light.

This year's edition includes a live panel on safety practices.

The Chinese company Space Transportation is developing a "rocket with wings" for space tourism and point-to-point travel.

Have you ever wanted to look down the throat of a Sarlacc? Then this show is for you!

The upper stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that launched the DSCOVR satellite in 2015 will arrive violently on the lunar surface just five weeks from now.

An artificial intelligence program suggests there may be hundreds of thousands of meteorites left for scientists to discover in Antarctica and reveals what may be the most likely places to unearth them.

Scientists have found "compelling evidence" that Saturn's "Death Star" moon is hiding an ocean just beneath its surface, furthering the search for possible life in our solar system.