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Vesta, a massive world in the solar system's asteroid belt, sports two huge trough features that have long puzzled scientists, and it doesn't look like the mystery will be solved anytime soon.

The flight could have ended very badly.

The leak was confirmed by the game's creative director during Gamescom last week.

The Taurid meteor shower is relatively sparse, but may display impressive fireballs.

The Caldor Fire, one of the largest in California's history, has been blazing since Aug. 14, 2021.

NASA's Perseverance rover is on track to collect its first-ever Mars sample in the next few days.

The European-Japanese BepiColombo mission hopes to shed light on many of the unexplored mysteries of Mercury, the least explored planet of the inner solar system.

The European Sentinel 2 satellite has flown over Mount Etna just as the volcano, the most active in Europe, erupted for the 50th time this year on Sunday (Aug 29).

Earth moves around the sun and across the universe on its axis and at an incredible rate.

NASA personnel at the agency's manufacturing facility in Louisiana are continuing to evaluate damage caused by Hurricane Ida, which made landfall on Sunday (Aug. 29).

A rocket-shaped stack of cheese and crackers could now launch your kid on a real-life space adventure.

How rare is our solar system? In the 30 years or so since planets were first discovered orbiting stars other than our sun, we have found that planetary systems are common in the galaxy.

The private astronauts of Inspiration4 will be helping to expand our understanding of how space affects the human body on their mission around Earth.

NASA engineers are building a next-generation supersonic plane that will produce a barely audible thump instead of the infamous boom that can rattle furniture and break glass.

We're getting a bird's-eye view of some of the damage Ida has wrought, thanks to before-and-after photos snapped by Maxar Technologies' WorldView-2 satellite.

Powerful eyes in the sky watched the menacing maelstrom Ida churn through the southern United States, even at night.

Learn all about the U.S. Space Force's robotic X-37B space plane, which has flown six mystery missions to date.

The launch of NASA's Earth-observing Landsat 9 satellite will be delayed a week due to a shortage of liquid nitrogen.

By entangling the motion and quantum properties of a beryllium crystal, scientists have achieved unprecedented precision for measuring electromagnetic waves.

Fans may have had limited access to U.S. Open tennis tournaments over the last year and a half, but at least they can view it from space.

NASA is looking for student teams to enter its TechRise Student Challenge, which tasks students in grades six through 12 with designing experiments to launch on a suborbital spaceflight.