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Jupiter's atmosphere has a strange composition, but it could be explained if the planet formed farther away from the sun than where it orbits today, a new study suggests.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the advanced GOES-T weather satellite rolls out to its Florida launch pad today.

Was Einstein wrong? His theory of space-time may have to be killed off if we want to better understand the universe.

Rocket Lab is ready to launch the first mission from its newly built pad in New Zealand on Monday (Feb. 28), and you can watch the event live.

The moon is Earth's closest celestial neighbor, but the temperature on the moon is drastically different.

Space.com reached out to noted experts in the asteroid impact field to gauge similarities between an undersea belch and Earth taking an asteroid punch in the oceans.

The GOES-T satellite is ready to take its place as part of the U.S.'s most sophisticated weather and environmental observation system.

NASA, SpaceX and Axiom Space will discuss a landmark private space mission today (Feb. 28), and you can watch it live.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has destroyed a "large" part of its space history, with reports confirming the fate of an enormous aircraft that was originally built to transport Soviet space shuttles.

NASA and NOAA have cleared the new GOES-T weather satellite is "go" for a March 1 launch.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his Starlink satellite internet service is available in Ukraine and more terminals to use it are on the way.

You may be able to watch the moon cluster up with ringed Saturn and fleeting Mercury on Monday (Feb. 28), but it will be a considerable challenge.

Ghost-like particles called neutrinos hardly ever interact with normal matter, giving the teensy apparitions supreme hiding powers. They are so elusive that, in the decades since their initial discovery, physicists still haven't pinned down their mass. But recently, by plopping them onto a 200-ton "neutrino scale," scientists have put a new limit on the neutrino's mass.

Scientists have shown how the swirling winds and searing heat on Venus work together in a revealing new study.

An underwater volcano in the South Pacific erupted last month and shattered two records simultaneously: The volcanic plume reached greater heights than any eruption ever captured in the satellite record, and the eruption generated an unparalleled number of lightning strikes — almost 590,000 over the course of three days, Reuters reported.

White holes are really just something scientists have imagined — they could exist, but we’ve never seen one, or even seen clues that one may exist.

A supernova is what happens when a star has reached the end of its life and explodes in a brilliant burst of light.

Roscosmos is stopping all Soyuz rocket launch cooperation Europe's spaceport in French Guiana due to European Union sanctions on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The finding comes from a fresh analysis of old data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which finished its mission in 2018.

Scientists got a strange sense of déjà vu when they took a close look at a mysterious series of bright flashes in a galaxy just 12 million light-years away.

That's from one team's examination of just one-quarter of the northern sky.