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The planet Venus has returned to the early morning sky and has established itself as a dazzling morning lantern, emerging into view from beyond the east-southeast horizon before 5 a.m. local standard time.

Earth and even the sun are puny compared to a mighty, hulking source of gamma-rays.

The rocket stage helped heft the Echostar 23 satellite to orbit in 2017.

A SpaceX rocket's upper stage was caught on camera careening toward a collision course with the moon.

The first-stage engines of Astra's Launch Vehicle 0008 fired up as planned today (Feb. 7), but the rocket aborted the liftoff try shortly thereafter due to a telemetry issue.

Our universe was born 13.7 billion years ago in a massive expansion that blew space up like a giant balloon.

In life, Mary Golda Ross helped develop a rocket stage that served as a rendezvous and docking target for astronauts preparing to go to the moon. A new statue, donated by Olay, honors her legacy.

Elon Musk will give a big Starship update — his first since the fall of 2019 — on Thursday (Feb. 10) at 9 p.m. EST (0200 GMT on Feb. 11).

It will soon be time to bid a fond adieu to an object that has been a fixture in our evening sky since late last summer: the planet Jupiter.

A new SpaceX video has captured a striking view of two critical moments in any rocket launch: stage separation for its booster and nose cone jettison.

Could we mine Earth's newly discovered companion?

These wild myths about space that just won't go away.

Scientists spotted two space rocks that may be Earth's freshest asteroid neighbors, but have to wait until 2033 to see them again.

Satellite data shows that Greenland’s ice sheet has lost enough water over 20 years to submerge the entire United States.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has launched a new center to fight the threat of satellite megaconstellations, which it now describes as worse than urban light pollution.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster will crash into the moon on March 4, and you can track the rogue rocket during live webcasts on Feb. 7 and Feb.

Astronomers may have for the first time detected and measured the mass of an isolated stellar-mass black hole, a new study finds.

A stunning new video from SpaceX captures what it's like to watch a rocket launch and then witness the booster return to Earth, all from mid-air.

IDW Publishing rolls out a turbulent new "Transformers: War's End" miniseries in February.

Dynamite Entertainment is releasing a new “John Carter of Mars” comic book title in spring 2022.

A new U.S. Space Force video "demands action" on space debris and asks the private sector for their help cleaning up the growing space mess.