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Luna-25, which Russia had hoped would land at the south pole of the moon, crashed into the moon on Aug. 19 after an orbital maneuver went wrong.

Scientists were able to visualize the upper 1,000 feet of the moon's surface for the first time. Their results reveal billions of years of previously hidden lunar history.

Researchers have discovered a pattern where diamonds spew from deep beneath Earth's surface in huge, explosive volcanic eruptions.

Researchers flew NASA's ER-2 aircraft as close to thunderclouds as safely possible and captured 'the most detailed' data of gamma-rays and thunderclouds ever recorded through airborne analysis.

Last year Earth had more than 100 close encounters with large asteroids. What are the odds of a direct hit in the near future?

Russia's Luna-25 moon lander may arrive on the moon as soon as Aug. 21. The mission aims to carry the baton from a previous series of Soviet landers, at the moon's south pole.

The final instrument has been added to NASA's Lunar Trailblazer probe, enabling it to hunt for water on the moon's surface when it launches in early 2024.

Russia's Luna-25 moon lander suffered 'an emergency situation' during a maneuver in lunar orbit today (Aug. 19), putting the fate of the landmark mission in doubt.

Karol 'Bo' Bobko, who was the only NASA astronaut to fly on the first launch of two space shuttle orbiters, has died at the age of 85. In total, Bobko logged 16 days, 2 hours and 3 minutes in space.

An interview with Legacy Effects' J. Alan Scott about his work on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.'

Sizzling ocean temperatures in the east-central tropical Pacific throughout July indicate there is a good chance El Niño conditions will remain strong for the next six months.

Social media post provides rare insight into Blue Origin's work and progress on its New Glenn rocket.

The Canadian Space Agency's Scisat is a valuable hunter of climate change evidence, producing big-name publications in Nature and Science recently despite its advanced age.

Every year, a few Canadian students climb and fall in mid-air for a few precious research moments in microgravity. This is what it's like to fly along.

A new image released by NASA shows-off the galaxies of Abell 3322.

SpaceX has installed a new heat shield and 'vented interstage' on its latest Starship Super Heavy booster, which is being prepped for flight in the near future.

NASA planetary scientist and "Foundation" space advisor Kevin Hand tells Space.com how the series stays rooted in as much actual science and astrophysics as possible.

By modeling the neutrinos from a supernova as an exotic kind of fluid moving at nearly the speed of light, researchers are searching for signs of how neutrinos can interact with each other.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch's assignment to fly around the moon has already given launch to a tasty treat. Good Dough, a bakery in Galveston, Texas, has created the 'Koch it to the Moon' kolache.

Satellites watched as an innocent-looking tropical depression exploded into the powerful Hurricane Hilary in just two days off the Pacific Coast of Central America.

ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) snapped a new photo of the globular cluster NGC 6723 containing hundreds of thousands of gravitationally-bound stars.