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Episode by episode, "Discovery" continues to entertain, but the season story arc has utterly flopped.

For over 50 years, Omega has helped astronauts keep track of time as they traveled in space and walked on the moon. Now the watchmaker is lending its time to tracking all of the items in Earth orbit.

The spacesuits and Human Landing System can't be ready before then, NASA's Inspector General told lawmakers.

Scientists will soon have a powerful new set of eyes in the sky to study Earth's weather and climate.

Earth observation companies have been sharing optical satellite imagery of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but radar data are what's needed most, Ukrainian entrepreneur Max Polyakov said.

NASA is continuing to operate the International Space Station with Russia and other partners, but is weighing its options.

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The Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption that shook the South Pacific Ocean in January will not affect Earth's climate despite sending clouds of ash dozens of miles high into the atmosphere, a new study confirmed.

The James Webb Space Telescope will zero in on a massive star-forming region to learn more about how young stars shape their environments.

Our best space mobile games list takes you on intergalactic adventures, across a lonely universe, and even into the captain's chair in more ways than one.

Mars missions have been launching for over 50 years. Humanity has sent orbiters, probes and landers to Mars but not every mission has been successful.

The GOES-T weather satellite is scheduled to lift off today (March 1) during a two-hour window that opens at 4:38 p.m. EST (2138 GMT). Watch it live here.

With a wide variety of people now going to space, and the prospect in the coming years of humans establishing bases on the Moon and beyond, it raises an important question: what happens if someone dies in space?

Europe's ExoMars rover is unlikely to launch in September as a result of sanctions rolled out by European countries in response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine.

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) is starting its first operational science work as it embarks on a mission to better understand our sun.

The first scheduled passenger airline service flew from St. Petersburg to Tampa, FL in 1914.

Elon Musk is delivering on his public promise to bring SpaceX Starlink terminals to Ukraine.

A BlackSky satellite snapped a shot today (Feb. 28) of an Epicentr K — a big home-improvement store similar to Home Depot — ablaze in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv following Russian shelling.

Rocket Lab lofted a private Earth-observation satellite today (Feb. 28) from the newly finished second pad at its Launch Complex 1, on New Zealand's North Island.

On Friday (Feb. 25), Ingenuity notched yet another milestone, this one of the round-number variety — its 20th Martian sortie.

Could SpaceX replace Russia in space?