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A newly launched Russian spy satellite may be tasked with stalking one of its American counterparts.

On Aug. 1, a group of eight researchers and their associates headed to the high Arctic to spend a month at the Haughton-Mars Project base on Devon Island.

A new hypothesis proposes that a large fraction of dark matter may be bound up inside tight balls the size of Neptune — so-called dark matter planets.

Set to blast off on Aug. 4, South Korea's pathfinding Danuri mission will measure magnetic anomalies and scan the lunar surface.

NASA is weeks away from launching its first Artemis flight to the moon and you can learn all about it in free webcasts this week.

Russia won't rush its exit from the International Space Station, but the nation is planning ahead for when that day arrives.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover bagged its 11th sample on Mars, targeting a sedimentary rock that may preserve "biosignatures" of ancient life on the Red Planet.

The countdown is now on for the launch of the first reimagined galleries in the National Air and Space Museum. The Smithsonian announced that it will reopen half of the flagship building on Oct. 14.

The James Webb Space Telescope peered through dust and gas to reveal star formation in a rare wheel-shaped galaxy that formed in a long-ago galactic crash.

The ISS can't fly forever, and NASA officials envision a diverse market of commercial space stations taking its place as demand for access to low Earth orbit continues to increase.

Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead, according to a recent report. Here's what that means.

Frank White's "overview effect" has increasingly become iconic for explaining a very human condition attached to the space travel experience.

Virgin Galactic has acquired land for a new astronaut campus and training facility in New Mexico close to Spaceport America.

NASA's Curiosity rover is still exploring the Martian surface and looking for signs of life on Mars. We explore the rover in more detail here.

Holes in the sun can beam out solar material at 500 miles per second.

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a glimpse of the most distant star known in the universe, which had been announced by scientists using Webb's predecessor Hubble only a few months ago.

Russia's announcement, while not a breach of any agreement or an immediate threat to the station's daily operation, does mark the culmination of months of political tensions involving the ISS.

We’ve now seen the first data from the James Webb Space Telescope. It has observed the atmospheres of distant planets, groups of nearby galaxies, galaxy light bent by unseen dark matter, and clouds of gas and dust in stellar nurseries.

A rare Corvette is to be restored, 51 years after its one-time owner launched with the first car to be driven on the moon. Project AstroVette Endeavour aims to return the car to its 1971 condition.

The launch adds to China's growing Earth observation and reconnaissance capabilities.

Using a cosmic relic from the universe's earliest moments researchers have made the earliest detection of a mysterious form of matter that makes up 85% of the universe's mass.