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NASA has delayed to launch of its VIPER moon rover to 2024, a one-year slip, due to the need for tests of its Astrobotic lunar lander.

One argument in favor of space exploration highlights benefits that help study, monitor and address serious concerns on Earth, like climate change and food production.

Smashed temperature records, wildfires and broiling soil are revealed in satellite data as Europe swelters in an extreme heatwave that is set to exacerbate a months-long drought.

Massive binary star systems in the galaxy form at the edges of open clusters or the leading edge of a spiral arm, a team of astronomers found.

Chinese launch services company CAS Space has signed a cooperation agreement with a giant state-owned travel company in an apparent boost for fledgling space tourism efforts in China.

Sotheby's is set to auction items from Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 moon landing artifacts collection.

On July 12, NASA revealed the deepest image of the universe ever taken, courtesy of the James Webb Space Telescope. But what's really happening in this historic image?

See the moon approach Jupiter on Tuesday (July 19) between midnight and dawn. The duo will be close enough to share the view with a pair of binoculars.

Ignore Obi-Wan's hand waving, this is the Star Wars movies ranked, worst to best list you’ve been looking for.

Astronomers have found a binary system containing a massive blue star and a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the star-forming Tarantula Nebula of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

It's only a matter of time before someone is killed by falling space junk.

Among the most spectacular sights in the sky, nebula come in a range of different types.

A European satellite that has been scrambling to escape premature death in Earth's atmosphere due to bad space weather has narrowly avoided a collision with a random piece of space junk.

A small space rock has proven to have a big effect on NASA's newly operational deep-space telescope.

Ready to tour the Universe? Find the perfect companion with our guide to the best telescopes for deep space.

Satellites tracking the total lunar eclipse in May revealed dramatic and uneven temperature changes across the surface of the moon.

For particle physicists, this was the end of a decades-long and hugely difficult journey and the beginning of a new era of experimental physics.

Space.com reached out to UFO groups and leading experts in the field to get their thoughts on NASA's new endeavor.

China wants to change the trajectory of asteroid 2020 PN1 as part of planetary defense programs.

While the Fujifilm X-T30 II mirrorless camera looks like a subtle upgrade from its predecessor it actually performs like a rocket.

Researchers suggest we may be able to use gravitational lensing to amplify radio waves, allowing us to listen in on communication signals passing through our solar system.