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The stars are so close that the white dwarf can steal matter from its companion, and this matter piles up and explodes on the white dwarf's surface.

The Rocket Lab mission, nicknamed "It Argos Up From Here" will lift off at Friday (Oct. 7) at 1:09 p.m. EDT.

Mercury will appear brighter in the sky over the coming weeks. At dawn on Saturday, Oct. 8, skywatchers in the northern hemisphere can see Mercury at its farthest from the sunrise.

In new research, we used data from InSight to detect and locate four high-speed meteoroid collisions, and then tracked down the resulting craters.

China has rotated a space station module to a lateral docking port as part of the process of building its T-shaped Tiangong space station.

A veteran SpaceX rocket poised to make its 14th flight aborted its launch attempt less than one minute before liftoff on Thursday (Oct. 6).

SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on its record-tying 14th mission Friday (Oct. 7), and you can watch the action live.

The growing weaponization of space poses a threat to human spaceflight in multiple ways, experts warn.

A brand new 3D model showcases the complex beauty behind the Cat's Eye Nebula.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft still has five years of trekking through space before it sees its first Trojan asteroid, but mission scientists are already getting a sense of what these rocks look like.

Satellite data revealed that the Nord Stream gas leak was not as bad as it seemed, at least in the context of global annual methane emissions.

The SpaceX Dragon capsule Endurance arrived at the space station today (Oct. 6), ending a 29-hour orbital chase.

Ohio's Center of Science and Industry launched a 'Learning Lunchbox' initiative to help their community in 2020. 2 years later, it has the attention of NASA and the White House.

The Smithsonian is ready to reopen the National Air and Space Museum and debut eight new galleries in Washington, DC. The reimagined exhibits include "Destination Moon" and "Exploring the Planets."

The little CAPSTONE spacecraft is stable, but engineers haven't yet regained full control as it flies towards the moon.

The Orionid meteor shower peaks between Oct. 21 and Oct. 22 and is visible until early November. We explore the annual shower in more detail here.

Episode 4 of 'Star Wars' spinoff 'Andor' depicts Cassian Andor's first introduction to rebel forces on the planet Aldhani.

NASA's Jupiter-exploring Juno spacecraft captured its most detailed images of the ice-covered, ocean-bearing moon Europa.

We've scanned the schedule and pulled out the essential panels that space lovers should make their top priority for New York Comic Con.

Our new paper shows how massive stars in such stellar nurseries can steal exoplanets away from each other — and what the signs of such theft are.

The October Camelopardalids are somewhat mysterious in that astronomers aren't quite sure what their origin is.