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Technicians have opened the hatch of NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft, which aced its epic moon mission late last year.

Virgin Orbit made spaceflight history despite its successful launch from Spaceport Cornwall. See some of the best photos from the event here.

Rocket Lab's debut mission from American soil will lift off from Virginia on Jan. 23, if all goes according to plan.

The strange 7-year dimming of a distant star was caused when its oddball stellar companion eclipsed it. The event was serendipitously caught by astronomers and won’t occur again for centuries.

A 'green pea' galaxy seen in an early James Webb Space Telescope image may be the most chemically primitive galaxy ever discovered.

The magnetic fields swept up on the surface of the Local Bubble influence where star formation occurs in the vicinity of the sun.

Researchers have confirmed the presence of an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our own, clocking in at 99% of Earth’s diameter.

ABL’s RS1 rocket lifts off from Kodiak Island, Alaska, on Wednesday. Credit: ABL Space Systems

ABL Space Systems’ first RS1 rocket fell back on its launch pad at Kodiak Island, Alaska, shortly after liftoff Tuesday on the company’s first orbital launch attempt, destroying the rocket and damaging the ground facility, officials said.

NASA's Jupiter explorer Juno's memory is back online, and most of the precious images of the gas giant and its volcanic moon Io Juno took just before the glitch hit have been salvaged.

Russia’s Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft undergoing launch preparations last year at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Energia

Russian space agency and NASA officials said Wednesday they will accelerate the launch of the next Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station, and fly it to the complex next month without anyone on-board to replace a Soyuz crew ferry ship damaged Dec. 14 by a high-speed impact, likely from a tiny particle from deep space.

A robotic SpaceX capsule splashed down off the coast of Florida on Wednesday morning (Jan. 11), wrapping up its six-week cargo mission.

The sun has fired off its third powerful X-class solar flare in less than a week, scoring an explosive hat trick.

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Russia will launch an empty Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station February to replace a damaged spacecraft that is unsafe to return its crew.

SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule streaks through the atmosphere on the way to splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida. Credit: SpaceX

A SpaceX-owned Dragon cargo capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico early Wednesday, returning 4,400 pounds of science equipment and hardware from the International Space Station after a 45-day resupply mission.

A red giant star thousands of light-years away "blinked," dimming significantly for seven long years, before returning to normal.

Opals, which contain a lot of water, have been found on Mars. They might be an indicator of past life and possibly a source of water for astronauts in the future.

Researchers have discovered more than 200 RR Lyrae stars in our galaxy's stellar halo.

South Korea's first moon mission has delivered a stunning first image from a NASA camera designed to peer into permanently shadowed areas near the lunar poles.

Mirfak, the brightest star in the constellation Perseus, is a yellow supergiant star with an uncertain fate.