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The U.S. Space Force has swapped rockets for an upcoming GPS satellite launch, moving to a SpaceX Falcon 9 while the investigation into an anomaly with ULA's Vulcan Centaur continues.

Has Project Hail Mary left you craving more of Andy Weir's work? We've rounded up the best of Andy Weir's sci-fi books, from The Martian to Artemis.

The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. The name "Milky Way" comes from its appearance as a dim glowing band arching across the night sky, in which the unaided eye cannot distinguish individual stars.

'Amaze, amaze, amaze!'

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic moment: a comet breaking apart in real time.

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois tonight and over the weekend as several coronal mass ejections and fast solar wind impact Earth.

Rocket Lab has inked a $190 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense for 20 launches of the company's suborbital HASTE rocket.

NASA's Space Launch System rocket was back on the move overnight ahead of its second mission to the moon, which will be the first time the vehicle carries a crew.

Image: Artemis II rocket back at its launchpad after a second rollout at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Week in images: 16-20 March 2026

NASA's SLS rocket is back at the launch pad as the space agency gears up to launch Artemis 2 astronauts on a mission around the moon next month.

Incoming solar storms could spark auroras this weekend and thanks to the spring equinox, Earth is perfectly aligned to amplify the show.

File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base at sunset. Image: SpaceX

Update March 20, 6:14 p.m. EDT (2214 UTC): SpaceX adjusted the T-0 liftoff time.

NASA has not reestablished contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter since a planned communications blackout ended Jan. 16.

A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught the "echo" of this gamma-ray burst.

The Rubin Observatory has detected thousands of new asteroids, including several that spin a lot faster than expected for typical rubble piles.

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The Smile mission is set to launch on a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on Thursday 9 April at 08:29 CEST/07:29 BST/03:29 local time. Follow along as we communicate on the final preparations for launch. Journalists are invited to join online media briefings in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German.

The spring equinox marks the first day of spring today, but daylight actually lasts several minutes longer than night. Here's why the equinox doesn't appear perfectly equal.