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Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping shows how she kept her hair clean while aboard the Tianhe space station module.

A study of a sample of galaxies that existed up to 12.5 billion years ago has provided further evidence that radiation from active supermassive black holes suppresses star formation.

A monument now stands at Arlington National Cemetery in memory of the Apollo 1 crew, the first astronauts to die in their spacecraft, 55 years after the fire took their lives.

Hang on tight as you watch this new footage of Jupiter. This sped-up view shows the perspective of NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew above the gas giant on April 9.

NASA plans to buy five more SpaceX crewed flights to the International Space Station.

'Remote work is no longer acceptable,' the SpaceX and Tesla CEO reportedly said in memos to both companies.

NASA is hailing the Perseverance rover's improved ability to pick its own targets as a way of speeding up science on Mars.

Russia will launch a robotic cargo mission to the International Space Station early Friday morning (June 3), and you can watch the action live.

Just a few months ago, we were confidently expecting to launch our rover, Rosalind Franklin, to Mars in September as part of the ExoMars mission, a collaboration between Europe and Russia.

An asteroid up to three times the size of a blue whale will sail past Earth on June 6, 2022.

New research calculates the odds that humans will contact a 'malicious' alien civilization that wants to invade our planet. Don't worry, the chances are incredibly small.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a dazzling new view of a busy star birth factory.

The Nikon Z7 II is a powerhouse of all-round full-frame mirrorless performance, but it’s especially adept at astrophotography and low light shooting.

A proposed Chinese mission would look for nearby habitable alien worlds by launching a spacecraft to make ultraprecise measurements of how orbiting planets make a star wobble.

A "planet parade" will see all five naked-eye worlds line up in their proper orbital order from the sun in Earth's sky this month.

By employing a new technique to make it easier to see faint gas next to the brilliant glare of a quasar, astronomers have discovered that the quasar is ionizing vast amounts of gas.

NASA has selected two companies to make spacesuits for its Artemis moon program and future International Space Station missions.

We now have a date for our first real images from NASA's next-generation observatory.

It is a sight that gave astronauts a reason to pause, and soon it will be one that the public can see for themselves at the California Science Center: a space shuttle standing poised for launch.

In February, one of NASA's Mars spacecraft slipped into a safe mode that nearly ended the mission.

Both Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, carry little pieces of humanity in the form of their Golden Records.