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SpaceX fired up the massive booster rocket for its new Starship spacecraft for the first time Monday night (July 19).

After more than a month offline in orbit, the famed Hubble Space Telescope is back in action and snapping photos of the cosmos.

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and three crewmates received 14 hours of training over the last two days for their launch into space on July 20.

The Perseid meteor shower burst into light this July and will escalate into August as Earth passes through the long trail left by Comet Swift-Tuttle. This month, though, the moon may interfere with the show. Here's how and when to see the Perseids.

After more than a month in safe mode, the Hubble Space Telescope is back online. A wonky power regulator circuit may be to blame.

Here's a look at where the hunt for aliens has been and where it's headed.

The first Asian American to reach space, Ellison Onizuka, who made the ultimate sacrifice in pursuit of NASA's goals, is the namesake for Northrop Grumman's next cargo spacecraft set to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.

The first Blue Origin crew will not wear spacesuits during their 11-minute journey to space and back Tuesday (July 20), according to founder and flight crew member Jeff Bezos.

When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos offered her a seat on the first crewed flight of his space tourism enterprise Blue Origin, it was an invitation aviator Wally Funk had waited six decades to receive.

New images obtained by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) reveal a powerful jet ejected from a supermassive black hole in unprecedented detail.

For Blue Origin, this coming moment has been more than two decades in the making.

Why is the universe the way it is? Over the years, scientists have explored many ways to explain the cosmos, leading to some crazy-sounding ideas.

Despite numerous attempts, astronomers have not yet confirmed the detection of an exomoon, a moon orbiting a planet around a distant star.

Astronomers have discovered a quartet of teenage planets, according to data from NASA's TESS telescope.

Blue Origin has cleared its New Shepard rocket to launch billionaire founder Jeff Bezos and three others on a suborbital trip on July 20.

The crew aboard Blue Origin's first astronaut launch on Tuesday (July 20) will take a giant leap into the unknown when they fly the first automated flight with an all-civilian crew.

Blue Origin is in the final countdown to launch is first crewed flight on Tuesday (July 20) and the company will have an all-civilian crew aboard.

An 82-year-old Mercury 13 aviator and an 18-year-old physics student will fly on the all-civilian crew.

NASA scientists have mapped the dynamic, ever-shifting lakes beneath Antarctica in more detail than ever before.

Atoms are the building blocks of all matter in the universe, but how many are there in the part of it we can see from Earth?

Read live updates of Blue Origin's First Human Flight that will launch Jeff Bezos and three others on July 20, 2021.