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The billionaire commander of the first "all-civilian" space mission has now filed a new flight plan, underwriting a series of three SpaceX launches to rapidly advance human spaceflight capabilities.

Large galaxies may steal dark matter from smaller galaxies they nearly collide with, new research suggests.

A newly established group called the Moon Farside Protection Permanent Committee has begun framing issues and solutions to guard against RFI corruption of the moon's far side.

It's not terrible; it's just not as good as it could've been. And it could've been really good

As mysterious as they are dangerous, black holes in games allow us to reach the unreachable and teach us something along the way.

The hottest commodity in astronomy these days is time — specifically, time using NASA's brand-new, ultra-powerful observatory.

Scientists argue that we need to build better monitoring systems to spot earthquakes of this type.

A new Russian cargo ship will blast off Monday (Feb. 14) with tons of supplies and equipment for the Expedition 66 crew. Here's how you can watch it live.

A rocket set to hit the moon March 4 might not be from SpaceX after all, astronomers now say. It may be a Chinese rocket stage.

In a new video from NBCLX, United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno and NBC sports producer Brad Fosler explain what Super Bowl LVI would look like on Mars.

India's first launch of 2022 will send a new Earth observation satellite to space after a sibling satellite was lost last year.

One of China's newest launch startups has been raising serious amounts of money for its range of increasingly complex "Gravity" launch vehicles.

It’s not often that the sudden appearance of a new impact crater on the Moon can be predicted, but it’s going to happen on March 4, when a derelict SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will crash into it.

Hulu will air a new "Futurama" animated series from creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen.

A newly released time-lapse video shows the stacking of the huge Space Launch System rocket that will launch NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission in the coming months.

The Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet is officially the largest ever observed, according to new measurements.

A special lens shows the telescope getting ready for work in the coming months.

The full moon of February, called the Snow Moon, will arrive Wednesday (Feb. 16) at 11:57 a.m. EST (0457 GMT).

The Big Bounce theory was once thought impossible. But recent research is keeping it alive.

A stunning SpaceX animation released Thursday (Feb. 10) shows the Starship system on a future voyage to Mars.

The nonprofit Space for Humanity is accepting applications through Feb. 15 for its Citizen Astronaut Program, which trains folks for spaceflight and will foot the bill for their trip to the final frontier.