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The Apollo program put humans on the moon in 1969. So why haven't we sent any more since?

As a planetary scientist and astrobiologist who studies ice grains from Enceladus, '’m interested in whether there is life on this or other icy moons. I also want to understand how scientists like me could detect it.

The Feb. 28 encounter between NASA's TIMED satellite and a dead Russian spacecraft was even closer than first thought — a mere 33 feet (10 meters) or so, NASA officials said.

After several years in development and pre-production at Marvel Studios, The Fantastic Four is finally coming to the big screen in 2025. Here's all we know.

As a TV reporter and meteorologist, I experienced some pretty incredible things in my career. But the 2024 total solar eclipse in Dallas left me in awe and with unforgettable emotions like I've never seen or felt before.

Lego's latest Millennium Falcon model certainly isn't a hunk of junk, as Luke Skywalker famously called the ship in 'Star Wars: A New Hope.'

On Episode 107 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with journalist Leonard David about NASA's troubled Mars sample return mission.

Muhammed Faris, who was the first cosmonaut from Syria and second Arab to fly into space, has died at the age of 72.

NASA's Juno probe continues to give us more insight into Jupiter and the giant planet's moons, including Io, the most volcanically active object in the solar system.

The annual Lyrid meteor shower peaks overnight on April 21-22, but unfortunately a bright moon will make it difficult to spot any 'shooting stars' this year.

The quest to bring samples back to Earth from Mars has been met with controversy in some quarters as the threat that ecologically-hungry Martian microbes might pose to our biosphere continues to be a topic of concern.

A review of Zack Snyder's "Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver."

The U.S. could lose its decades-old leadership in space exploration and technology to China.

A pair of small experimental satellites have begun tests related to future lunar communication and navigation services for China's moon ambitions.

Japan will test solar power transmission from space in 2025 with a miniature space-based photoelectric plant that will wirelessly transmit energy from low Earth orbit to Earth.

This NASA space-based observatory video shows 'Devil Comet' 12P/Pons-Brooks passing past bright Jupiter while the sun explodes in the distance.

The mission aims to assist the later removal of spunk junk, an issue that threatens the sustainable use of orbital space above the Earth.

NASA's history-making Ingenuity helicopter covered a lot of ground on Mars over the past three years, as a new video shows.

NASA is building a moonquake detector for its upcoming Artemis 3 mission, in hopes of learning more about lunar tremors and the internal structure of the moon.

Rocket Lab has put a recovered Electron first stage back into its production line, a big step toward the company's first-ever rocket reflight.

Apple TV+ is headed back to the past, and the future, with a fifth season of "For All Mankind" and new spinoff "Star City." Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi are returning to lead both.