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Watch Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti and Russia's Oleg Artemyev deploy nanosatellites and do maintenance work during their spacewalk Thursday (July 21).

The Comedy Central host talks about how the new images from NASA's deep-space telescope blew his mind.

Early Friday morning the moon will be conveniently placed to guide you to Uranus. The pair will be close enough to share the same field of view in a pair of binoculars.

The inner solar system spins much more slowly than modern physics would expect, and a new study may help to explain why.

SpaceX will launch another batch of Starlink satellites aloft from California on July 21, and you can watch it live.

Mattel has entered into a multi-year agreement with SpaceX to create and market toys based on SpaceX rockets and spacecraft.

NASA is considering sending "hyper-specialized" scientists to the International Space Station to work alongside career astronauts.

Solar wind is blowing from the sun with unusual intensity these days, and space weather forecasters think it might make polar lights brighter.

China launched the SuperView Neo 2 (01) and (02) commercial sensing satellites into near-polar orbit with its 24th orbital launch of 2022.

NASA chose SpaceX's heavy-lift rocket to send a wide-field telescope into space that will search for dark matter.

NASA officials say the Artemis 1 moon rocket may be ready to launch as soon as late August, but that timeline depends on tweaks at the Vehicle Assembly Building and on the pad.

A new statue of an Apollo astronaut now stands near NASA in Houston, just in time for the anniversary of the first moon landing. To find it, just follow the Golden Arches.

Scientists who study exoplanets explain how the James Webb Space Telescope will study exoplanet atmospheres.

In the early hours of Thursday (July 21) morning, the waning crescent moon will pass close to Mars. They will be close enough to share the view in binoculars.

The companies plan to deliver variants of Boom's Overture aircraft for military and emergency response missions.

Looking for all the Star Wars movies in chronological order? Found them, you have!

Abrams ComicArts releasing the next volume in Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's "Dune: The Graphic Novel" project.

Earth is no stranger to the sun's wrath. From solar flares to coronal mass ejections, we take a look at some of the worst solar storms in history.

"Escaping Gravity" tells the story of Lori Garver's rise to be NASA's second in command, and how she brought one of the agency's most successful programs to reality.

Landsat is a fleet of Earth-observing satellites that have been monitoring our planet's climate and land use patterns since 1972.

Landsat 1 launched 50 years ago on July 23, 1972. We celebrate the work of Landsat with a gallery of some of the best images captured by the satellite fleet.