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Teams monitor the countdown during a dress rehearsal in preparation for the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev onboard, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026, in the control room of SpaceX’s HangarX at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

The launch of the next crew rotation mission to the International Space Station will have to wait at least another day after NASA and SpaceX leadership determined weather along the flight path would be unacceptable.

Just 13 months after declaring the moon "a distraction," Elon Musk has announced that Earth's nearest neighbor is now the focus of SpaceX's settlement plans. What changed?

Mars, often called the "Red Planet," is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury. It is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere, similar to Earth's Moon, but it has distinct surface features like impact craters, valleys, deserts, and polar ice caps.

NASA and SpaceX mission managers have delayed the Falcon 9 launch of the next crew to the International Space Station as they await improved weather conditions.

"Science fiction is all about the imagination. And it can be exploring space or exploring that mysterious organism called our bodies."

'Whatever that thing is, it's hunting us, and it won’t stop.'

Interstellar comets are the original cosmic explorers, and by studying their metallic whispers, we are learning the secrets of worlds we may never see directly.

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For its most powerful flight yet, Ariane 6 lifts off for the first time with four boosters.

A new proposal suggests borrowing the "Conference of the Parties" model from climate diplomacy to update space law before orbital congestion and lunar competition escalate.

There are a lot of moving pieces when it comes to building the world's largest telescope.

Early rises — and late night skywatchers — will get the chance to spot a wealth of spectacular sights on the lunar surface.

Astronomers have discovered three still-growing galaxy clusters in the early universe that point to a faster track of evolution than expected.

Scientists analyzing decades-old NASA's Magellan data have identified only the second reported lava tube on Venus.

The next solar eclipse will be on Feb. 17, 2026. Here's what you need to know.

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