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The picture book paints Edwin Hubble's biography in a way that teaches and entertains.

SpaceX has started building a pad for its Starship Mars rocket at Launch Complex 39A, part of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Elon Musk announced on Friday (Dec. 3).

The big problem might not be time zone, but accessibility of the prime Antarctic site.

Early Saturday morning, a total solar eclipse will darken skies at the bottom of the world.

A tiny galaxy orbiting at the outskirts of the Milky Way appears to have a giant black hole at its center, comparable to that of the much larger Milky Way itself, and scientists don't know why.

The Milky Way is our galactic home, but studying it has been notoriously difficult. Thanks to the European Gaia mission, astronomers are finally unravelling the galaxy's fascinating evolution.

The International Space Station dodged a fragment of a decades-old rocket body early Friday morning, continuing a stretch of space debris threats to the orbiting laboratory.

Before NASA deploys its Artemis Gateway in orbit around the moon, the agency will launch a different, but related "Gateway" at its Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

Giving aliens directions to Earth might be tricky, but scientists have some ideas for how to do it.

What would humanity do if a giant space rock were hurtling directly towards Earth? According to director Adam McKay ("The Big Short," "Anchorman," "Step Brothers"), we might not even care.

Three companies snagged a total of $415 million to develop their private space station designs.

There were 48 Starlink satellites on board, plus two Earth observation satellites for BlackSky Global.

Antarctica will see nearly two minutes of totality at most, with surrounding regions getting a partial view.

A newfound alien world could shed some light on one of the darkest and strangest corners of the exoplanet family tree.

A live webcast will track a newly found bright Comet Leonard star cluster in the Earth's sky and you can watch it live.

Two NASA astronauts on a spacewalk replaced a faulty antenna outside the International Space Station Thursday (Dec. 2), restoring one of the ways the orbiting outpost communicates with Earth.

SpaceX will launch its next stack of Starlink satellites from the East Coast tonight (Dec. 2) as part of a rideshare mission, and you can watch the action live online.

RocketLab's next-generation reusable Neutron rocket will operate like an aircraft.

An Arianespace Soyuz rocket is scheduled to lift off Thursday night to grow the Galileo constellation.

NASA's Curiosity rover snapped a stunning new selfie surrounded by expansive, rocky terrain on Mars.

Sky Tonight, from the people behind Star Walk, gives an AR look at the best bits of the night sky you can see tonight