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The Artemis 1 mission will end nearly a month in space with a series of wild landing steps, from skipping off of Earth's atmosphere to splashing down in the ocean.

As Orion quickly closes the gap between the moon and Earth ahead of its Pacific Ocean splashdown on Sunday (Dec. 11), we're looking back at the epic launch that got us here.

The James Webb Space Telescope has granted astronomers a look at the faint almost ghostly light emitted from stars that exist between galaxies packed into galactic clusters.

The commercial launch company Rocket Lab will have to wait a few more days for its first-ever launch from U.S. soil due to bad weather.

NASA is deep into planning the first crewed excursion of the Artemis program as Artemis 1, which surpassed expectations, targets a splashdown and end of mission Sunday (Dec. 11).

Is it easier to land on the moon for a sixth time, as Apollo 17 did, or to enter Earth's atmosphere with a new approach, like Artemis 1's Orion capsule will do?

Part of a Chinese rocket that launched the Yunhai 3 satellite last month is now a debris cloud of around 350 pieces.

The Geminid meteor shower is predicted to reach its peak before dawn next Wednesday morning (Dec. 14).

China continued its rapid pace of space launches with a mission to add new capabilities to the country's Earth observation system.

Astronomers used 200,000 Hubble Space Telescope images to discover an eerie glow surrounding the solar system even after all other light sources have been eliminated.

New fund would aid responses to floods, fires and storms. But a failure to address warming and greenhouse gas emissions undercuts the funding success, critics say.

Walmart have knocked 25% off the popular 1254-piece Lego Icons Galaxy Explorer set this holiday season.

If NASA can send Lego minifigures to the moon, then you can assemble your own set at home. The agency and Lego Education launched a crew of four diminutive astronauts on its Artemis 1 mission.

The U.S. Navy has been training for years to recover NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft after it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday (Dec. 11).

Astronomers confirmed that four ancient galaxies detected by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early months of its operations are the oldest ever seen, nearly as old as the universe itself.

Amazon has festive stargazing discounts as you can save over 30% on the Celestron 70mm Travel Scope and 76mm FirstScope.

China may end up enlarging its Tiangong space station and perhaps use it to evaluate technologies needed for possible human exploration of the moon.

A long-lasting rivalry that first reached into outer space almost 60 years ago is bringing NASA's history onto the football field as part of this year's Army-Navy Game.

NASA has built a new rocket and spacecraft to get Artemis astronauts to the moon, and it's developing a new toolkit for them to use on the lunar surface as well.

The super-Earth exoplanet Janssen is so close to its star, a year is only 18 hours long.

Artemis 1's Orion capsule is scheduled to return to Earth on Sunday afternoon (Dec. 11), wrapping up its historic mission with a Pacific Ocean splashdown.