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China's Shenzhou 14 astronauts have opened up and entered the Tianzhou 5 cargo spacecraft after its docking at the country's newly completed space station.

NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket is standing on a launch pad (again) ready for its debut flight, and if you can't make it there in person, you can experience it with Space.com's Brett Tingley.

NASA's Lunar Flashlight mission will deploy a small satellite to skim the moon's surface and use lasers to search for water ice in lunar craters.

Artemis 1 is continuing the long tradition of delayed NASA launches, and there are good reasons for the high level of caution that underlies these delays.

The European Solar Orbiter spacecraft watched an odd snake-like filament crawl across the sun's surface just before a massive plasma eruption.

If seeing is believing, then a new space-themed attraction has something to show you. Ripley's Believe It or Not! is displaying "The Lost Tapes" from the Apollo 11 moon landing.

NASA's MAVEN mission spotted two different types of auroras glowing in ultraviolet light as charged particles riding the solar storm streamed into the Martian atmosphere.

Yes, the Canon RF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens is a good all-rounder, but how does it fare under low light and astro conditions?

Two NASA astronauts will float outside the International Space Station today to prepare the orbiting lab for new solar wings and you can watch it live online.

The Artemis 1 moon mission has seen its share of setbacks, but is still set to launch on Nov. 16 during a two-hour window beginning at 1:04 a.m. EST (0604 GMT). Watch it live on Space.com courtesy of NASA.

Most of us get to see a rocket launch up close just one or twice in our lives, if ever, so capturing the moment in detail is a high priority. Here's how you can do it.

The support hardware of Sidus Space will help NASA's Artemis 1 mission get off the ground for its epic uncrewed mission around the moon on Wednesday (Nov. 16).

Artemis 1 mission managers have determined that the Space Launch System rocket is still ready for a Nov. 16 launch attempt despite suffering slight damage during Hurricane Nicole.

A Chinese rocket body broke up in orbit after launching on Friday (Nov. 11) and is now in more than 50 pieces, adding to the threat of space debris in Earth orbit.

NASA aerospace engineer Sabrina Thompson's "Girl in Space" organization is building an in-vehicle flight suit designed for women first. It will be tested in a Mars analog next year.

AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 satellite unveiled an array that is about the same size as a small apartment, to provide high-speed communications from orbit.

SpaceX just conducted its most ambitious and powerful Starship test to date, firing up 14 engines on one of its Super Heavy booster prototypes.

Last week's Blood Moon total lunar eclipse was visible over the Artemis 1 rocket on Nov. 8, making for an epic view of the mission's eventual destination.

New research suggests that a wandering companion may have played a role in Betelgeuse's antics of late 2019.

Scientists studying "polluted" white dwarf stars find new insights into how planets are made — and it turns out, stars and planets grow up at the same time.

Fossils called stromatolites from Western Australia were created by microbes 3.48 billion years ago.