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World Space Week begins October 4 and it’s the perfect time to start mapping out your plans for next year’s night sky events.

Satellites have revealed the scale of destruction wreaked by Hurricane Ian over Florida last week, but images also show glimpses of recovery where power has already been restored.

The asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out much of the planet's plant and animal life (most famously the dinosaurs), also triggered a worldwide tsunami with mile-high waves.

She set sail as a research vessel, shipped out as postage stamp and stood tall as a monument. Now, America's first woman in space is set to return to orbit as the namesake of a station cargo capsule.

Earth's delicate balance of land and water might be a cosmic rarity, with a new model suggesting that most planets are landlocked desert worlds.

A launch date hasn't been set yet for the next flight carrying Sharon Hagle and Marc Hagle, who last flew in March.

When astronauts venture out on the first commercial spacewalk next year, they will be able to mark the time with special wristwatches. IWC Schaffhausen has created chronographs for Polaris Dawn.

An Atlas V rocket topped with the SES-20 and SES-21 spacecraft is scheduled to lift off Tuesday at 5:36 p.m. EDT (2136 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Watch it live here.

India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) may have finally reached the end of its operations after eight years spent orbiting the Red Planet.

NASA's Ingenuity drone on Mars had a piece of debris stuck to its leg during a recent flight. While it finished the flight without incident, engineers are assessing what happened.

SpaceX will launch 52 more Starlink internet satellites to orbit tonight (Oct. 3), and you can watch the liftoff live.

Space.com's editors present a reading list for space and sci-fi lovers, as well as children who are interested in astronomy and spaceflight.

A SpaceX spacecraft will send three astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut into space on Wednesday (Oct. 5) and NASA has a lineup of events to follow live.

The Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule that will fly SpaceX's next astronaut mission for NASA is poised and ready on the pad.

The Crew-5 astronaut mission is on target to launch Wednesday (Oct. 5), provided SpaceX and NASA clear up three minor issues.

Clues about water in Earth's deep interior were recently extracted from rare diamonds.

On its yearly journey around the sun Earth is about to pass through a field of debris left by Comet Halley. This will be visible as bright fireballs above Earth peaking in mid-October known as the Orionids.

The crewmembers of SpaceX's Crew-5 astronaut mission for NASA made it to Kennedy Space Center in Florida Saturday (Oct. 1), a few days later than originally planned due to Hurricane Ian.

The underground ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus may contain significant amounts of phosphorus, which is vital for life as we know it.