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UK Lego enthusiasts will no doubt orbit around this out-of-this-world deal while stocks last.

The huge, bowl-shaped Meteor Crater in Arizona that was formed some 50,000 years ago continues to yield new information, surprisingly so.

NASA's DART spacecraft is perfectly on track to smash into double asteroid Didymos as a new observation campaign confirmed orbital parameters of the space rock.

An ancient piece of crust is hiding below Western Australia, having survived 4 billion years of upheaval.

It's make or break time for NASA's new moon rocket as NASA is finally ready to launch its Artemis 1 moon rocket on Aug. 29.

They're not only relevant to the upcoming launch, they're also pretty good deals.

A new deep-learning technique allows scientists to peek inside the moon's permanently shadowed polar craters for the first time.

NASA's new SLS megarocket is ready to launch on the historic Artemis 1 moon mission on Monday (Aug. 29).

Lightning crackled close to NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket on the launch pad today (Aug. 27) in Florida, with several bolts even striking the lightning towers.

The uncrewed Artemis 1 mission carries a suite of experiments designed to learn more about the moon and deep space, and how to keep astronauts safe far from home.

Lego is teaming up with NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to bring a unique hands-on building and learning experience to the Artemis 1 launch scheduled for Monday (Aug. 29).

The U.S. Mint is launching a new collectible for the first American woman in space. The Dr. Sally Ride American Women Quarters 2022 Ornament features the mint's 25-cent coin honoring the astronaut.

It was a very scenic way to begin the traverse, and for someone who has pored over both orbital and ground-level images of Mars for years, it was quite easy to believe you were on that planet.

China launched a small solid rocket on Monday (Aug. 22), spawning a minor mystery about the number of satellites on the flight.

The countdown is ready to begin for NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission with the SLS megarocket and Orion spacecraft.

SpaceX will launch 54 of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit and land a rocket on a ship at sea on Saturday (Aug. 27), and you can watch the action live.

NASA has been preparing for Artemis 1 for years and is now in the home stretch. Here's a brief rundown of the major mission milestones to watch for, both before and after its Aug. 29 launch.

The head of NASA's science program told Space.com how the agency hopes to pivot the human work to Mars exploration.

Krispy Kreme is celebrating NASA's Artemis 1 launch with a doughnut inspired by the mission's destination. The "Artemis Moon Doughnut" goes on sale the same day NASA lifts off for the moon.

The Allen Telescope Array in California detected signal from the Voyager 1 probe, a NASA satellite launched 45 year ago that is currently speeding toward the outer edges of the solar system.

NASA's Artemis 1 SLS rocket launch to the moon is scheduled to launch on Aug. 29, but could slip to Sept. 2 or Sept. 5 due to weather or glitches.