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China is considering adding a mission to Venus to its plans for planetary exploration, according to a senior Chinese space official.

All about NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, the first Black woman to embark on a long-duration space mission.

The World Central Kitchen founder says the mission invokes "the spirit of eating paella from the same pan."

In a long-awaited moment, NASA scientists have unsealed an extraterrestrial time capsule 50 years after astronauts collected the rock and dust from the moon.

North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday (March 24), its first test of a long-range weapon-delivery system since 2017, according to media reports.

The best travel tripods can be a worthwhile addition for photographers on the move. Here’s our rundown of some of the best on the market.

The European sun-chasing spacecraft Solar Orbiter has snapped the closest image of the sun ever taken, revealing the finest details of our star's outer atmosphere, the corona.

The fine-structure constant is a seemingly random number with no units or dimensions, which has cropped up in so many places in physics, and seems to control one of the most fundamental interactions in the universe.

Paramount Plus will finally debut their ambitious new "Halo" series today based on the iconic video game franchise from Microsoft/Bungie.

Paramount’s take on the Chief is finally due to hit select streaming services next week – as a primer, here’s everything we know about the Halo TV series.

The dino-killing asteroid lofted huge amounts of sulfur into Earth's atmosphere 66 million years ago, leading to rapid climate change.

SpaceX's next new spacecraft to carry astronauts now shares a name with the first capsule to fly an American into space. Crew Dragon "Freedom" will make its debut with the launch of SpaceX's Crew-4.

A circular shape on the seafloor visible on Google Earth is raising cries of "UFO," but chances are … it's not aliens.

Astronomers imaged a weird circle in space in high-definition for the first time as they try to find out how these mysterious structures form.

The uncrewed Artemis 1 round-the-moon mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than May.

Multiple private spacecraft will be ferrying NASA astronauts to the surface of the moon just a few years from now, if all goes according to plan.

Space lettuce could help astronauts maintain good bone health on long trips, a new study suggests.

Astronomers in the future might not be allowed to build large complex power-hungry observatories if they want to reduce their carbon footprint in line with greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.

Astronauts Raja Chari and Matthias Maurer finished several maintenance tasks on a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station

SpaceX just raised prices for its launch and Starlink internet services, citing the inflationary pinch that the rest of us are feeling as well.

SpaceX's Crew-4 mission will launch toward the International Space Station on April 19. And the mission's Dragon capsule just got a name: Freedom.