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Just weeks after the excitement of launch, the James Webb Space Telescope is already seeking focus in space.

A huge asteroid will safely whiz by our planet next week.

The spacecraft is riding out a dust storm, but the agency said it hopes to resume normal operations next week.

NASA may need more astronauts to meet its human spaceflight goals over the coming years, according to a new report from the agency's investigative office.

Earth is surrounded by a vast bubble about 1,000 light-years wide whose borders drive the formation of all nearby young stars, a new study finds.

Some of the agency's Earth-observing satellites have been in operation since the late 1990s or early 2000s.

Find out how track the International Space Station from Earth and see where it is right now.

Water was spotted on the moon nearly 15 years ago, but it was detected in real time on the lunar surface only by orbiters before now.

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is leaking.

A stellar collection of the best space and astronomy books for 2022.

A newly discovered "mini" supermassive black hole could help reveal some of the secrets behind the biggest black holes in the cosmos.

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk just gave us a great look at the "launch and catch tower" for the company's massive Starship Mars rocket.

Hundreds of artifacts from NASA's Apollo lunar landings are set to touch down in Miami as part of "Space Adventure: The Arrival of Man on the Moon," an immersive experience.

The Book of Boba Fett episode 2, entitled "The Tribes of Tatooine," will blow your socks off. Here's what we thought.

Aladin Lite is one of the greatest online tools available to look at our universe through the eyes of many different telescopes.

Amazon is offering 30% off the "Clue: Star Wars" edition, which is a pretty good deal.

Planet WASP-103b got its unusual shape by orbiting very close to its parent star.

Before Earth and the other planets in our solar system existed, the sun may have been surrounded by giant rings of dust similar to Saturn's, according to a new study.

Commander Musilova had to navigate through a 'rogue asteroid field' — aka a wildfire in Hawaii — to get her crew safely to the HI-SEAS analog space station for the start of their Martian simulation.

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is set to begin spying on some of the universe's most dramatic objects — black holes and neutron stars.

The Sentinel-1B radar satellite, part of the European Union's Copernicus Earth observation program, hasn't beamed home any data since suffering an anomaly on Dec. 23.