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A Long March 2F rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert today (Oct. 25), carrying the Shenzhou 17 spacecraft and its crew into orbit.

A new climate report finds humanity is pushing Earth's systems into "dangerous instability."

Watch the partial lunar eclipse on Oct. 28 live here on Space.com. We've also rounded up some of the best livestreams for watching the moon enter Earth's shadow.

Images released by the European Southern Observatory may reveal why Betelgeuse dimmed in 2019.

A best-case projection that meets ambitious Paris Accord targets suggests the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will melt three times faster in the 21st century than it did in the 20th.

Scientists used the new Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA) in California to capture radio images of October's annular eclipse.

NASA's ILLUMA-T demonstration terminal is set to launch to the International Space Station to complete the space agency's first two-way laser communication relay system.

China has revealed its latest crew of astronauts set for a six-month-long mission to the Tiangong space station today.

A Long March 2D rocket launched into the night sky above the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China on Oct. 23, carrying three more Yaogan 39 satellites to orbit.

SpaceX loaded its latest Starship prototype with supercold propellant on Tuesday (Oct. 24), notching a key milestone ahead of the vehicle's upcoming test flight.

Scientists have wondered why Mars' core can be so big and light at the same time. Two new studies might have an explanation.

SpaceX has asked the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to correct a report warning that components from reentering Starlink constellation satellites could injure or even kill people on the ground.

NASA and electric car maker Canoo revealed the interior of the vehicle that will ferry Artemis moon astronauts to the launch pad.

Two Russian cosmonauts will go outside the International Space Station today (Oct. 25) to investigate the source of a coolant leak that sprang up on Oct. 9. You can watch the webcast live.

The U.S. Postal Service is granting priority status to the James Webb Space Telescope with two 2024 Priority Mail postage stamps, each featuring a cosmic image captured by the deep-space observatory.

Thanks to NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, geologists have discovered evidence for ancient rivers on the Red Planet hiding in plain sight, suggesting the planet once had the right conditions for life.

The first efforts toward simulating all components of the universe fail to resolve the S8 tension. Is the standard theory of cosmology in trouble?

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter traveled 1,901 feet (579 meters) during its 63rd Mars flight, which took place last Thursday (Oct. 19).

United States Space Operations Command revealed its first official painting, which depicts a "futuristic intercept vehicle" engaging an adversary satellite in orbit above Earth.

SpaceX has signed a deal to loft up to four of Europe's Galileo navigation satellites over two launches in 2024, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa was indeed ejected from the moon, a new study confirms, suggesting more lunar fragments dwell among near-Earth asteroids.