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The sun's temperature varies from around 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million degrees Celsius) in the core to about 10,000 degrees F (5,500 degrees C) at the surface.

An Atlas V rocket topped with two "neighborhood watch" satellites is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Friday at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT).

The tally is something like 61 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Does the simulation hypothesis offer a compelling argument, or is it just interesting food for thought? Let's find out.

Watch the sun set from a particularly dark patch of Earth and you may spot a triangle of what scientists call zodiacal light extending from where our star passed below the horizon.

Get to know our nearest stars, their distances in light-years, spectral types and their known planets.

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has temporarily stopped its science observations while the mission team investigates an issue.

A SpaceX resupply ship will have to wait at least one more day before returning to Earth.

Stunning views of the aftermath of the Tonga volcano eruption have been snapped by astronauts at the International Space Station.

Spacecraft prep and orbital traffic pushed the first all-private space station mission one month later.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has notched yet another milestone — the first weather-related flight delay on another planet.

Neil Armstrong was a NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer and the first person to walk on the moon, on July 20, 1969.

For 60 years, the Cosmosphere has been a leader in the preservation of space history. The Kansas institution has everything you would want from a world-class museum. Everything, except its own beer.

The Marsquake-hunting mission will pause science for the time being.

Washington-based Radian Aerospace announced today (Jan. 19) that it has raised $27.5 million to aid the development of Radian One, its crew-carrying single-stage-to-orbit space plane.

String theory might be the theory of everything… or a flawed framework for theoretical physics.

This list of famous astronomers includes great scientists in history who mastered many fields and modern astronomers who helped popularize astronomy.

We have a look at the upcoming sci-fi movies for 2022 to see what we've got to look forward to.

NASA's International Space Station team is eager to stick with the orbiting laboratory until 2030.

Scientists have found nearly 2,000 exoplanets since the first such world was confirmed orbiting a sunlike star in 1995. These ones are most similar to Earth.

A unique archaeological study of crew culture within the International Space Station will focus on the orbiting habitat as a "microsociety in a miniworld."