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Perseverance has socked away 14 drilled-out Mars rock cores to date — two apiece from seven target rocks — and it will likely drop half of them in a "depot" in November or December.

The Orionid meteor shower peaks overnight tonight (Oct. 21), so get outside and see some fireballs streak through the atmosphere.

After a treacherous journey, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has reached an area that is thought to have formed billions of years ago when the Red Planet's water disappeared.

NASA has ordered three more Orion crew capsules from aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, in a deal worth $1.99 billion.

One of the most reasonably priced star projector STEM toys for budding astronomers who want a glimpse of the night sky at home.

The European Space Agency has chosen SpaceX to replace Russia's space agency to launch two of its missions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The moon is a lifeless rock, but despite no living thing ever having been found on its desolate surface, some forms of Earth life might be able to make it.

Europe's new Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket won't launch before late 2023, but Europe is already planning out a future reusable second stage and homegrown astronaut taxis.

A week or two after a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid, scientists have spotted something unexpected: The space rock has grown two tails.

European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti did some last-minute shopping as part of her larger bid to promote fun and teamwork in orbit. Food also played a role.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a cluster of galaxies merging around a rare red quasar, a "monster" supermassive black hole that is greedily feeding on gas and other material.

NASA's newest space telescope is hard at work despite an ongoing instrument glitch and continuing small micrometeoroid strikes.

NASA's WISE mission has a dramatic view of the universe based on more than a decade of research, gazing into the deep sky with infrared vision.

Comfortable and relatively compact, the Meta Quest 2 is still the best way to enjoy VR gaming without wires.

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket has arrived at a launch complex in Virginia ahead of the company's first liftoff from U.S. soil later this year.

The second and only remaining operational data recorder aboard NASA's magnetosphere-observing Geotail spacecraft has failed, jeopardizing a mission that has been in operation for three decades.

Check out our ranking of some Star Wars fan films and amateur shorts influenced by 45 years of lore.

SpaceX will expand its Starlink constellation yet again with a launch on Thursday (Oct. 20), and you can watch it live.

A SpaceX technician suffered a head injury that placed him in a coma for two months while performing a pressure check on a rocket engine, according to reports.

The raid on the Aldhani Imperial base unfolds almost in real time and there are some interesting post-action developments.