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NASA's CAPSTONE mission successfully executed a spacecraft burn Monday (July 4) and started its solo journey to the moon.

Solar eclipses are one of nature's most spectacular events. Here we explore what they are and the different types of solar eclipses.

NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Bob Hines sent a message from the International Space Station wishing their compatriots on Earth a happy Independence Day.

German engineers have tested a team of cute autonomous lunar robots on the volcanic moon-like slopes of Italy's Mount Etna.

We’re over half way into the year but there’s plenty more on offer when it comes to upcoming sci-fi movies in 2022.

Stars appear to twinkle because the light from these distant objects passes through wobbly air in the atmosphere.

It's an early-stage project, but researchers say a new biofuel holds potential for low-carbon rocket launches.

The moon and several planets will join the fireworks on the Fourth.

In 2012, jubilant physicists working on the world's most powerful science experiment announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, a particle scientists had been searching for since 1964.

The James Webb Space Telescope's powerful infrared instruments will be trained on three types of comets, potentially providing insight into the solar system's early life.

Earth will be the farthest from the sun on Monday (July 4) as it reaches aphelion at 3 a.m. EDT (0700 GMT).

The Perseverance team says the rover can still take key weather measurements after pebbles struck a wind sensor amid strong Red Planet gusts.

By studying how flat Earthers talk about their beliefs, we can learn how they make their arguments engaging to their audience, and in turn, learn what makes disinformation spread online.

One of the instrument's early programs includes performing spectroscopy on stellar nursery NGC 133 to spot the small, dark celestial bodies.

For its last international deployment, the aircraft returns to Christchurch for a seventh and final time.

A stubborn solar array on the NASA Lucy mission might yield enough to allow the mission to continue its asteroid-hunting mandate with few issues, NASA reports.

It's clear that space weather can cause blackouts, but scientists are still working to predict extreme events and forecast their potentially devastating effects.

Virgin Orbit just aced its fourth mission in a row, launching seven small satellites in the company's first-ever night flight.

A missile-warning satellite and another spacecraft are on their way to orbit to help the U.S. military get better at tracking fast-moving threats.

China's first successful interplanetary mission has completed mapping the Red Planet more than a year after its arrival.

Capable of both destruction and creation, space volcanoes are common on planets and moons throughout the solar system and beyond.