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India is eyeing a 2028 launch for its Chandrayaan-4 moon sample-return mission, followed by an uncrewed lunar lander and rover in collaboration with Japan.

Two of the world's most powerful space telescopes have spied a spooky pair of galaxies in deep space, staring out like a pair of "blood-soaked" eyes  just in time for Halloween.

"Star Trek" has played around with swarms of microscopic robots before, but never quite like this.

Halloween is here, and there is no better way to celebrate than with a blood-curdling image of the Dark Wolf Nebula looking like a cosmic werewolf poised to grab an unwitting victim.

North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday (July 12), shortly after complaining about purported spying activity by the United States.

The extreme qualities of neutron stars could mean these dead stellar remnants gather dense clouds of hypothetical particles called "axions" around them, potentially shedding light on dark matter.

Celebrate Halloween with a cosmic new Google Doodle, featuring an astronaut cat vanquishing creepy creatures across Earth's atmosphere.

A geomagnetic storm, the largest supermoon of the year, a comet and an eerie fireball were among the skywatching treats that haunted the night sky of October 2024.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered brown dwarfs at the heart of planet-forming disks in the Orion nebula. The discovery could help reveal if these "failed stars" can have planets.

The Dragon, named Freedom, is flying SpaceX's Crew-9 mission for NASA.

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second person ever to walk on the moon, endorsed Donald Trump in a statement released today (Oct. 30).

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on Oct. 13, 2024 as the comet was displaying an 'anti-tail.'

SpaceX plans to launch 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites today (Oct. 30), during a four-hour window that opens at 5:10 p.m. ET (2110 GMT).

NASA has refined its list of potential landing sites near the moon's south pole for its Artemis 3 mission, which aims to return astronauts to the lunar surface no earlier than 2026.

NASA's Perseverance rover found strange green spots in Martian rock, potentially indicating a past interaction with liquid water.

Following recent communication issues, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft resorted to a backup radio transmitter that has been inactive since 1981.

Debris from the broken-apart Intelsat 33e telecom satellite is spreading across geosynchronous orbit, threatening spacecraft in this precious region of space, an animation shows.

The two cubesats will assist in the most detailed study ever of a binary asteroid.

A 6-mile-thick shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's vast subsurface ocean.

The famous doughnut-shaped image of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole may not be fully accurate, an independent analysis of EHT data suggests.

NASA's Perseverance rover took a break from its Mars mountaineering expedition recently to survey its old stomping grounds.