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Arianespace plans to bring three satellites aloft from French Guiana on Tuesday (Dec. 13), and the nearly two-hour launch window opens at 3:30 p.m. EST.

On Thursday (Dec. 15), an asteroid that could be as large as the Great Pyramid of Giza will pass Earth. Amateur astronomers are challenged to spot the asteroid.

2002's "Star Trek: Nemesis" blows out the candles on its big 20th birthday today.

The time-flipped photon can't be used to restage "Back to the Future," but it could help us figure out some of the universe's most mysterious phenomena.

Ride to space and back again in the Artemis 1 footage, which showcases views of Earth, the moon and NASA's new Space Launch System rocket.

After eight years of science missions, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft has found permanent residence at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Arizona.

The United States Air Force has successfully tested its first prototype hypersonic missile, the AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW.

A newly developed algorithm is helping astronomers search through massive amounts of data from Zwicky Transient Facility categorizing powerful cosmic explosions called supernovas.

An international group of experts has voted to retire the leap second by 2035.

Astronomers have for the first time studied the elusive faint glow emanated by stars that have been ripped from their homes and now exist as cosmic orphans between galaxies.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell was reassuring during a recent conversation.

If you're looking to bag a bargain this holiday season, then saving over $60 on this Celestron 70AZ telescope kit could be right for you.

There was something familiar about the hat Derrol Nail wore as he described NASA's Orion spacecraft splashing down from the moon. Not by accident, his ballcap evoked images of Apollo astronauts.

The antimatter counterparts of light atomic nuclei can travel vast distances through the Milky Way before being absorbed, new findings have revealed.

How does a stunning photo from Artemis 1 compare to other iconic views of Earth from the outside?

NASA is moving ahead with the development of a spacecraft to hunt for potentially hazardous asteroids and aims to launch by June 2028.

Someday, you may be able to see fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope as soon as the scientists who proposed gathering it do.

With Artemis 1 now in the books, the focus is quickly shifting to the Artemis program's next phase: crewed flight. But that can't happen until several pieces fall into place.

Stars aren't supposed to simply disappear, yet countless bright objects that once appeared in the sky in the 1950s no longer do.

NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission wrapped up with a Pacific Ocean splashdown on Sunday (Dec. 11), and NASA couldn't be happier with how everything went.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, who also chairs the National Space Council, congratulated NASA for completing the Artemis 1 uncrewed mission around the moon Sunday (Dec. 11).