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NASA called off a critical fueling test of its Artemis 1 moon rocket Sunday due to safety concerns with ground equipment.

Space-based solar power is one of the technologies to feature in the government's Net Zero Innovation Portfolio.

Lightning struck the launch pad home of NASA's giant Artemis 1 moon rocket several times on Saturday (April 2), but the rocket is in good health and on track for a critical test. 

Learn about the spacecraft's interior and its key role in lunar missions during the 2020s, including planned moon landings.

Venus, Saturn and Mars will be visible and very close together this week in the predawn sky. Here's how to see it.

The first all-private mission to the International Space Station by Axiom Space will launch no earlier than April 6.

Observations from the Hayabusa2 mission have astronomers questioning the true origin of asteroid Ryugu, a new study shows.

A Rocket Lab Electron launcher lifted off Saturday (April 2) from the company's New Zealand site, carrying two BlackSky Earth-observing satellites to orbit.

As the planets rise in April we're given stunning views, if you know where to look.

On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. What would the same storm do today?

A red giant star in the final stages of its existence has been caught emitting strange smoke-like rings for the first time.

On Wednesday, March 30, residents in Bloomington, Indiana, and surrounding counties were literally shaken to attention by the sound of an exploding meteor.

Before launching Apollo 11 to land astronauts on the moon, NASA secretly sent a fourth grader there first. That is one of the stories in Richard Linklater's "Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood."

Axiom Space and its crew are ready to make history.

The commissioning stages of the James Webb Space Telescope just ticked off yet another phase.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 40 spacecraft to orbit for a variety of customers — and the rocket's first stage came down for a landing on a ship at sea.

A series of solar storms aimed at Earth this week have supercharged the Earth's auroras, creating dazzling displays for skywatchers.

Four people are scheduled to go to space during Axiom Space's debut mission, and you can watch many of the events live.

A fresh assessment of a distantly risky asteroid brings good news: it's even less of a threat than astronomers had feared.

A brain 'headset' aims to provide a high-resolution view of neural changes that happen in the brain while space, and it will fly aboard Axiom Space's first crewed launch, Ax-1.

NASA isn't done evaluating the career of telescope namesake James Webb, officials said after controversy surrounding the flagship observatory's name has continued since last summer.