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The clouds were so faint that NASA employed special imaging techniques to spot them.

A Cygnus cargo ship launching toward the International Space Station this weekend will carry an experiment designed to improve fire safety on moon and Mars missions.

The team tested images and sensors ahead of flying to the moon of Saturn.

Astronomers have discovered the largest radio galaxy ever, stretching at least 16 million light-years through space, new research shows.

The fine-guidance instrument is key to keeping the space telescope pointed in the right direction.

The Sicilian volcano is 'smoking' and 'spitting lava,' one astronaut reports.

Space is the zone above and around our planet where there is no air to breathe or to scatter light. Space is a vacuum, but it is far from empty.

NASA's InSight Mars lander has shaken off the effects of a recent dust storm, likely allowing the spacecraft to collect science data for a few more months.

These tunes are out of this world.

If a super-advanced civilization had to ability to engineer the solar system from scratch, how many planets could they squeeze around the sun?

Scientists watching the skies for asteroids that may threaten Earth have hit a new milestone, spotting the 10,000th sizable space rock that circles the sun near Earth's orbit.

A Russian cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station early Thursday morning (Feb. 17), delivering nearly 3 tons of supplies and equipment to the orbiting lab.

A prolific NASA space telescope has closed its camera eye for now due to a power issue that has stalled the observatory's science work.

China has achieved a great deal in the final frontier recently, and the new document makes clear that the country plans to build aggressively on those successes.

A group of physicists has announced one of the highest performance atomic clocks ever made.

The water that Earth has may have been here since the planet formed, and not delivered later by collisions with icy comets, a new study finds.

An astronaut who launched on the first space shuttle to fly with a full crew and two crew members who flew on the last space shuttle to launch will be inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

A group of students has confirmed that a rocket stage poised to hit the moon next month is from a Chinese Long March launcher, not a SpaceX Falcon 9 as originally thought.

Hunt down the Mandalorian with the Lego Star Wars Imperial Light Cruiser.

A supermassive black hole masked by a cloud of cosmic dust was found at the center of an active galaxy in new images from the European Southern Observatory.

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