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The $9.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope mission has passed a key launch review, keeping it on track to lift off atop an Ariane 5 rocket before the end of the year.

For most people, getting to the stars is nothing more than a dream.

Astra plans to get to Earth orbit for the first time this summer — and to return many times in the ensuing weeks and months.

The Marshall Space Flight Center is a hub for historic and modern-day rocket power in Alabama. Once home to Wernher von Braun's crew of German rocketeers, the facility is now home to work for Artemis and Blue Origin.

A new robotic arm built by the European Space Agency will fly to the International Space Station to service its Russian segment.

NASA's new administrator, Bill Nelson, is a familiar face in the space community, but the agency he has led for nearly two months now has changed a great deal in recent years.

NASA and SpaceX have delayed the departure of the SpaceX CRS-22 Dragon cargo ship from the International Space Station as Tropical Storm Elsa approaches Florida.

How big is Earth? Earth is the fifth-largest planet in the solar system and the densest.

NASA's experimental Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has now flown nine times on the Red Planet, letting mission engineers test a host of capabilities that could pave the way for more Martian choppers.

With its frigid temperatures, remoteness from the sun and general dustiness, changing Mars to be more Earth-like is more challenging than it seems (and it already seems pretty tough).

A new exhibit at the museum of flight is lifting the curtain on the strange-but-true history of aerospace medicine.

Pioneering aviator Wally Funk is set to beat one of John Glenn's spaceflight records.

Scientists are concerned that increasing amounts of meltwater could be finding its way into the ocean.

Space Mysteries: A fast radio burst was detected from within our galaxy for the first time. We may be closer to uncovering its origin.

On July 5, 2021, Earth will be at the farthest point in its orbit around the sun, also known as aphelion.

The planet has been losing 33,000 square miles (87,000 square kilometers) of ice coverage each year since 1979.

The public feedback will help NASA conduct a thorough review of its programs, practices, and policies, according to agency officials.

For the first time, two astronauts have worked outside of China's space station.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a dazzling new view of a distant star cluster, one filled with stars that sparkle in red, white and blue.

The sun erupted with a surprise solar flare on Saturday (July 3), the largest since 2017, in an early explosion of cosmic fireworks ahead of the Fourth of July.

While many Americans will celebrate the Fourth of July with a day off from work, astronauts at the International Space Station are spending their holiday preparing a cargo ship's return to Earth.