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A Tianzhou 3 cargo spacecraft has undocked from China’s Tiangong space station and is now ready to be deorbited in the near future.

China is all set to launch the Wentian module for its crewed space station after rolling out a Long March 5B heavy rocket to the pad at Wenchang spaceport.

Rocket Lab says its National Reconnaissance Office mission will stand down for now, with new launch date 'to come.'

We also get our first look at the "builders" who originally constructed the Kaylon artificial lifeforms

Here's how to observe these solar system worlds overnight Wednesday (July 20) and Thursday (July 21).

Two major U.S. defense contractors announced the successful test flight of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, or HAWC, on Monday (July 18).

In space, no one wants to deal with the cleanup from liquids, flames or other messy science experiments.

The James Webb Space Telescope could reveal hints about exoplanet surfaces by studying the planets' atmospheric temperatures and moisture levels.

New research motivated by string theory suggests possible, and equally strange, fates for evaporating black holes.

Two private companies, Relativity Space and Impulse Space, unveiled plans for the first commercial flight to Mars in 2024 using reusable rockets.

Smashed temperature records, wildfires and broiling soil are revealed in satellite data as Europe swelters in an extreme heatwave that is set to exacerbate a months-long drought.

One argument in favor of space exploration highlights benefits that help study, monitor and address serious concerns on Earth, like climate change and food production.

NASA has delayed to launch of its VIPER moon rover to 2024, a one-year slip, due to the need for tests of its Astrobotic lunar lander.

On July 12, NASA revealed the deepest image of the universe ever taken, courtesy of the James Webb Space Telescope. But what's really happening in this historic image?

Sotheby's is set to auction items from Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 moon landing artifacts collection.

Chinese launch services company CAS Space has signed a cooperation agreement with a giant state-owned travel company in an apparent boost for fledgling space tourism efforts in China.

Massive binary star systems in the galaxy form at the edges of open clusters or the leading edge of a spiral arm, a team of astronomers found.

Among the most spectacular sights in the sky, nebula come in a range of different types.

It's only a matter of time before someone is killed by falling space junk.

Astronomers have found a binary system containing a massive blue star and a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the star-forming Tarantula Nebula of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Ignore Obi-Wan's hand waving, this is the Star Wars movies ranked, worst to best list you’ve been looking for.