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NASA has pushed back the resumption of the Artemis 1 moon mission's critical "wet dress rehearsal" by two days, to Tuesday (April 12).

A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying the four Ax-1 astronauts docked with the International Space Station at 8:29 a.m. EDT (1229 GMT) today (April 9), ending a 21.5-hour orbital chase.

The astronauts of the first-ever fully private crewed mission to the International Space Station will commemorate their groundbreaking flight with some digital artwork.

Scientists have crafted a new message for intelligent extraterrestrials

A spinning orb of light that slowly moved across the sky in Alaska on March 29 was actually frozen fuel left by a Chinese rocket, according to experts.

We round up the best stargazing tents for all situations, from solitary travelers to hosting parties.

The planets Venus, Mars and Saturn appear close together in the southeast predawn sky, while the moon passes near the bright stars Castor and Pollux on April 9.

A longed-eared toy dog was mistaken for a famous Disney rabbit when it was revealed as the "zero-g indicator" on the first private mission to the International Space Station.

Look up at the sky before sunrise Saturday (April 9) to see a trio of planets, twin stars and the moon entering its next phase.

With the private Ax-1 astronaut mission safely on its way to the space station, NASA plans to resume the "wet dress rehearsal" of its Artemis 1 moon mission this weekend.

Four private astronauts left Earth this morning (April 8), riding a SpaceX capsule toward the International Space Station on a history-making liftoff that wowed observers.

A tiny subatomic particle called the W boson may be heavier than scientists have previously thought and it could shake up physics' grand theory of everything.

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Heliocentrism places the sun at the center of the Solar System. This is the history of how scientists discovered our place and in the Solar System.

This morning (April 8), a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off, launching the first fully private crewed mission to the International Space Station.

The James Webb Space Telescope's MIRI instrument needs to cool down almost to absolute zero, the temperature where the motion of atoms stops, before it can start observing the universe.

Perihelion is the point at which an orbiting body is closest to the sun. The word comes from Greek and literally means around (peri) the sun (helios).

The sun's atmosphere has three layers: The photosphere, the chromosphere and the corona.

The upcoming Ax-1 mission is perhaps the beginning of a new era in human spaceflight — not because of the identity of the private astronauts, but because of the ecosystem that's emerging around them.

Earth is made up of several layers: the lithosphere, asthenosphere, lower mantle (also known as mesospheric mantle), outer core and inner core.