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China continued its run of moon missions today (May 3), launching its bold Chang'e 6 sample-return effort to the lunar far side.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft serendipitously found a small moonlet orbiting the mission's asteroid target Dinkinesh. Scientists named it Selam, and have now learned that Selam is a cosmic toddler.

Scientists suggest lunar astronauts can stay fit by running sideways within a Wheel of Death.

China's Chang'e 6 sample return mission to the moon's far side is scheduled to launch early Friday morning (May 3), and you can watch the action live.

United Launch Alliance's new video highlight's how the Atlas V launch vehicle for Boeing's Starliner was stacked and mated to the spacecraft.

Both the Hubble Telescope and TESS exoplanet hunter went into safe mode on April 23. Hubble is back on, but TESS remains off.

NASA's PREFIRE mission will deploy a pair of satellites from twin launches aboard Rocket Lab's Electron rockets that will contribute to climate change studies in the Arctic and Antarctica.

SpaceX is scheduled to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (May 2), on the second half of a planned spaceflight doubleheader.

WASP-12b is a planet on a date with a fiery destiny, doomed to plunge into its sun-like star. Scientists may finally know why some hot Jupiters eventually death spiral into their stars.

NASA's inspector general writes that the Artemis 1 test flight of the Orion spacecraft revealed anomalies that "pose significant risks to the safety of the crew."

Sixty-one years after it stood ready to send NASA's last one-man mission into orbit, the Mercury-Atlas 9 rocket is standing again. A replica is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force.

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-8 mission will move their Dragon capsule to a different port at the ISS on Thursday morning (May 2), and you can watch it live.

Two experienced NASA astronauts will take Boeing Starliner on its first human excursion on May 6. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams bring test pilot and spaceflight experience to bear.

As the sun reaches solar maximum, Mars spacecraft are preparing to study the effects of increased radiation bombardment and how solar storms may impact future crewed missions to the Red Planet.

The JWST has performed a weather report for a distant hot Jupiter exoplanet, finding winds three times as fast as a jet fighter, clouds made of rock and temperatures hot enough to melt lead.

During the winters of 2016 and 2017, a hole the size of Switzerland opened in the middle of Antarctica's sea ice. And scientists just figured out how it came to be.

Having a spider on your wall has never looked so good thanks to Lego's The Amazing Spider-Man set.

Want to know more about solar maximum and how it affects us? Read our complete guide on what solar maximum is and when it might occur.

Yellowstone's lake's ice cover has remained unaffected by increasing temperatures due to increased snowfall. But this could make it vulnerable to a sudden shift.

Here are the top 15 sci-fi movies boasting over 90% scores on Rotten Tomatoes from both critics and audiences alike.

An erupting star system in Orion has finally provided an answer to the mystery of how stars fed for over 100 years, something that has puzzled astronomers for almost as long.