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A New Shepard rocket-capsule combo lifted off from Blue Origin's Launch Site One in West Texas on Thursday morning (March 31), carrying six people to suborbital space.

Our picks for the best space books for kids will add science and diverse titles to youngsters' libraries.

New miniaturized instruments will help detect pollutant gas sources, from power plants to volcanoes.

China has established the Tiandu deep-space exploration laboratory to support the development of the country's growing plans for lunar and planetary missions.

Blue Origin will launch 6 passengers on the NS-20 space tourism mission on March 31, 2022. Here are our live updates of the launch.

Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin will launch six people to the final frontier Thursday morning (March 31), and you can watch the action live.

The X-class flare caused a shortwave radio blackout, and it's possible we'll see auroras in the coming days.

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Data from a retired NASA space telescope revealed the disaster scene left behind by a cosmic collision.

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei can't wait to see his wife after landing back on Earth after a record-breaking mission.

Almost 50 years ago, in the midst of the Cold War, American astronauts flew to space alongside cosmonauts as part of NASA's first attempt to forge a partnership between the U.S. and Russia in space.

Humanity is making a giant leap back to the moon and to Mars. But one giant obstacle continues to plague the humans making this progress possible: sexual harassment.

A Long March 6 rocket featuring four solid strap-on boosters successfully launched two satellites to orbit on Tuesday (March 29), according to media reports.

The most distant single star seen yet dates back to less than 1 billion years after the universe's birth in the Big Bang, and may shed light on the earliest stars in the cosmos, a new study finds.

A powerful solar storm is set to hit Earth on Thursday with spectacular aurora displays accompanying it after the sun fired nearly 20 flares from a single sun spot in just two days.

The "Chaos" regions on Jupiter's moon Europa might hold keys to the possible existence of life in the ocean under the moon's icy crust.

Record-setting U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei and his two Russian crewmates Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov landed from the International Space Station, showing that cooperation in space continues.

The newest deep space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, will give us a deeper view into the infrared universe than the iconic Hubble.

NASA has officially greenlit Artemis 1's "wet dress rehearsal," which will take place from Friday through Sunday (April 1 to April 3).

China's three Shenzhou 13 astronauts are preparing to return to Earth after a national record six-month-long mission in orbit aboard the Chinese space station.

An overactive sunspot erupted with 17 different flares since Monday (March 28) and could amp up Earth's auroras.