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The SpaceX launch of Axiom Space's Ax-3 private astronaut mission to the International Space Station has been delayed by eight days, to Jan. 17.

NASA has published a composite image of UGC 8091, a dwarf irregular galaxy using data captured by the Hubble Space Telescope from 2006 to 2021. It has been compared to Christmas lights or a snow globe.

Chinese launch startup Landspace appears ready to test launching and landing rockets from China's Gobi Desert.

A first teaser trailer for Adam Sandler's new Netflix sci-fi film, "Spaceman," slated to touch down on March 1, 2024.

Scientists know that the vital ingredients needed for life lurk in oceans beneath the icy shell of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, and they may be closer to the surface than we knew.

SpaceX conducted a static fire test today (Dec. 20) with Ship 28, a prototype that's being readied to make the third test flight of the Starship program.

Virgin Galactic plans to launch its sixth operational spaceflight on Jan. 26, 2024 with four passengers, who are yet to be named.

A jaw-dropping ecosystem of crystal-clear lagoons and salt plains in Argentina's Puna de Atacama desert could offer a window onto early life on Earth and Mars.

The Chinese company iSpace's sixth Hyperbola-1 rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center early Sunday (Dec. 17) morning, carrying a recoverable satellite to orbit.

Searching for the best telescope to gift to the astronomer in your life this holiday season? Whether they’re a beginner or a seasoned astronomer, we have options for all budgets.

New trailer and details launch for 'Kerbal Space Program 2's' latest Early Access update, "For Science!"

New details about the Artemis 2 astronauts' White House meetings last week were released Dec. 19, on the eve of the new National Space Council meeting chaired by Vice-President Kamala Harris.

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has imaged the vast lava plains of Elysium Planitia, showing evidence of recent volcanism and proving the Red Planet has a turbulent past.

Jupiter played a key role in life developing on Earth, so to boost the search for life outside the solar system, scientists have built a catalog of small, Earth-like planets with Jupiter-like siblings.

The first-ever TV show in the Alien universe is in development for FX on Hulu. Here's everything we know about the upcoming Alien TV series.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris pledged today (Dec. 20) that NASA's Artemis program will send a non-American to the lunar surface before this decade is done.

Shenzhou 17 commander Tang Hongbo and rookie crewmates Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin recently helped each other get haircuts aboard China's Tiangong space station.

The fascinating patterns of 35 repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) reveal new properties of these mysterious blasts of deep-space radiation that appear and disappear in milliseconds.

The moon reaches its first quarter moon phase on Dec. 19, crossing the sky in the Pisces constellation as the last half-moon of 2023.

The next moon astronauts practiced sliding out of their Orion spacecraft during a simulated emergency splashdown. Artemis 2 aims to fly the four astronauts in 2024.

Astronomers found two planetary systems centered around solar analogs containing mini-Neptune planets and a "super-Jupiter" world 99 times the size of Earth.