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SpaceX plans to launch two Earth-imaging satellites today (Aug. 15), continuing to build out the WorldView Legion constellation for Maxar.

A private company has received funding from the U.S. government to build the first-ever "streetlights" on the moon — towering, Statue of Liberty-sized structures that could withstand the brutal lunar night.

Watch a colossal X-class solar flare erupt from the sun's highly magnetized 'rule-breaking' sunspot.

Getting a live play-by-play of astronauts on the moon could be possible through laser communications during future Artemis missions.

Measuring wind on Mars with great sensitivity is important if we don't want accidents with vehicles, and maybe even astronauts, on the Red Planet.

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the galaxy Messier 106, which sits in the Canes Venatici constellation.

July is in the books as yet another record-setting month of extreme heat and weather.

SpaceX has strongly refuted a media report claiming the company violated environmental regulations by releasing pollutants related to Starship launches in South Texas.

Machine learning could help scientists quickly sift through data about the Red Planet, and perhaps other aspects of our cosmos someday, too.

SpaceX's Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump for president. Here's what it could mean for US space policy (op-ed)

Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams await a decision from NASA on whether they will fly home aboard Boeing's spacecraft or SpaceX's Crew Dragon.

New research finds why some asteroids have weird, watermelon-shaped moons trapped in orbit around them, contrary to what typical asteroid formation theories predict.

The Chinese commercial space firm CAS Space is making serious progress on a new reusable rocket called Kinetica-2, and is targeting a debut in 2025.

A newly discovered star 30 times as large as the sun has a baffling chemical composition that could provoke a revision to stellar evolution models.

The first trailer for Disney+'s "Star Wars: Skeleton Crew" drops at Lucasfilm's D23 panel.

Commercial airplanes have made strides in reducing carbon emissions, but it turns out the exhaust clouds trailing behind them can have long-term impacts on the environment.

With prolonged space missions on the horizon, scientists are racing to understand how microgravity affects the human body and how drugs could mitigate some of those effects.

"We haven't found any evidence for life on Mars, but at least we have identified a place that should, in principle, be able to sustain life."

NASA recently met with roller coaster experts to talk safety. The braking system used on theme park rides is similar to an emergency system designed for agency moon launches.

Though magnetars and pulsars are two distinct types of neutron stars, astronomers have spotted a magnetar mimicking a pulsar after launching a mysterious blast of intense radiation.

Watch a stunning Perseid fireball blaze over Lake Ohrid, Macedonia in this incredible video.