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This weekend might have three meteor showers active at the same time, combining to provide a celestial firework display almost all through the night.

A parsec is a standard astronomical measurement that is often misunderstood.

The Delta Aquarrids meteor shower peaks tonight (July 29). The shower commonly generates about 15-20 meteors per hour and is best viewed around 3 a.m. local time.

A TikTok video from European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti dished about the smells of the International Space Station, particularly the toilet and trash.

NASA is working toward an Aug. 29 launch target date for Artemis 1, which will use a Space Launch System megarocket to send an uncrewed Orion capsule on a multiweek mission around the moon.

The runaway star is dashing across the galaxy at more than 100,000 mph, thanks to a massive explosion that happened more than a million years ago.

Europe's planned Venus exploration mission will depend on a challenging aerobraking procedure to lower its orbit, which will test the thermal resiliency of its materials to the limits.

Congress wants the International Space Station to keep going through the end of the decade.

The moon's surface is pockmarked with hundreds of little pits, each about the size of a large building, and it may not be just the pits' size that would feel familiar to an astronaut.

NASA's veteran Mars orbiter captured a stunning image of a Martian dune field that reveals intricate details that might help scientists learn more about weather patterns in the planet's past.

A huge Chinese rocket body is expected to fall to Earth this weekend, but that doesn't mean you should scurry into a bunker.

All of this could've easily been avoided if Topa didn't follow that little blue bug

In addition to supplying data on 2 billion stars throughout the Milky Way, Gaia has provided information about some smaller bodies closer to home.

Graphene found interlocked with diamonds inside an ancient meteorite could be the key to superfast, supercharged tech.

Earth's crust is dripping "like honey" into our planet's hot interior beneath the Andes mountains, scientists have discovered.

Bill Ingalls has been a professional photographer for three decades and has served as the Senior Contract Photographer for NASA Headquarters since 1989.

The solution as to why gravity is so weak may come from taking a closer look at the Higgs boson.

Pluto was once considered the ninth planet in the solar system, it was demoted in 2006 to dwarf planet status. We explore this icy body in more detail here.

The moon officially reached new moon phase today (July 28), leaving dark skies perfect for stargazing ventures.

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 continue their slow journeys deep into interstellar space.

Russia released images and information about its planned space station, which could be ready to house crews in six years amid a multi-year construction period.