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A Japanese company that plans to put a robotic lander on the surface of the moon later this year had to postpone its second planned mission by at least 12 months.

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is primeval radiation emitted shortly after the Big Bang. Regarded as an 'echo' of the Big Bang, CMB fills the universe.

The successes notched by Webb, the biggest and most complex space telescope ever launched, reflect the grit and unity of thousands of people who worked together to place it in the heavens.

As Comet Leonard bid farewell to Earth and flew past Venus, a sun-studying spacecraft flew through the comet's long tail, giving humans a new perspective on the icy wanderer.

The country is already testing a radiation vest on Artemis 1, the first uncrewed mission of the program.

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious, flickering object in the Milky Way that belches enormous amounts of energy toward Earth three times an hour.

The Higgs boson particle could have kept our universe from collapsing within a larger multiverse, physicists say.

China launched the first of a pair of radar satellites that will provide important geological data following earthquakes and landslides.

SpaceX has won a contract, worth over $102 million, to transport military supplies and humanitarian aid around the world using a rocket.

The first animals reached space in 1947, but it wasn't until 1960 that animals orbited Earth and landed safely.

New evidence finds substantial water on Mars flowed as recently as 2 billion years ago.

NASA released a new video today (Jan. 27) to remember the three crews and other fallen astronauts who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration.

Astroscale has suspended its ELSA-d demonstration mission in Earth orbit after detecting "anomalous spacecraft conditions," the Japanese startup announced on Twitter Wednesday (Jan. 26).

Three months after launch, a new NASA asteroid spacecraft is still getting settled into its life beyond Earth.

The particle was found by smashing billions of lead atoms into each other at extreme speeds.

Many sci-fi movie monsters have tried to end the human race, but which ones should we really be worried about?

Sirius, also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A, is the brightest star in Earth's night sky. The name means "glowing" in Greek — a fitting description, as only a few planets and the International Space Station outshine this star.

Inside the latest issue of All About Space is our complete guide to exoplanets where we peer into the most extreme alien worlds and hunt for Earth 2.0.

On the 55th anniversary of NASA's fatal Apollo 1 fire, the agency's lessons learned live on as Orion aims for the moon.

Keep this list of the best space movies handy for the next time you feel the need to escape from the reality of Earth.

What is the sun made of? In several layers, hot gases are converted into energy and released as heat and light.