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An Indian rocket will launch three satellites on Thursday morning (June 30), and you can watch the action live.

China has successfully conducted a hot-fire test of a new engine that will help power a next-generation rocket capable of launching astronauts to the moon.

A sungazing spacecraft captured the moon passing in front of the face of the sun Wednesday (June 29).

Study reveals why mysterious gamma-ray bursts appear to blink and suggests that these mysterious phenomena might be much rarer than astronomers thought.

How monster black holes overpower their much larger host galaxies.

The Pentagon continues to develop its new hypersonic interceptor.

SpaceX will launch a commercial communications satellite and land a rocket at sea on Wednesday (June 29), and you can watch the action live.

A massive galaxy cluster shines in a new telescope image, distorting the view of more distant galaxies lying in the background.

The Europa Clipper mission, due to launch in 2024, was originally supposed to crash into Jupiter, but there's been a change of plans.

Virgin Orbit's carrier plane, known as Cosmic Girl, is scheduled to lift off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California on Thursday (June 30) during a window that opens at 1 a.m. EDT (0500 GMT).

The sun is acting out, and solar weather forecasters are baffled. But one scientist might know what's going on.

Amazon.com's annual Amazon Prime Day megasale begins on Monday, July 12 with deals in telescopes, binoculars, Star Wars and other space gear.

The latest delay will allow teams more time to assess and mitigate the consequences of elevated propellant vapor readings inside Dragon's propulsion system.

'The Orville' season 3 continues to wow us with enthralling stories, just the right amount of humor and mind-blowing space battles.

The Space Force's X-37B has now been aloft for 773 days, just a week shy of the program record.

A "peculiar" cloud over the Caspian Sea offers an interesting case study of how satellites can detect such phenomena in Earth's atmosphere.

Del Rey Books releases Adam Christopher’s new "Star Wars" novel, "Shadow of the Sith."

Houston-based Axiom Space has found the perfect place to develop its commercial orbital outpost: a sprawling facility that comes pre-equipped with a mockup of the International Space Station.

NASA's 55-pound (25 kilograms) CAPSTONE cubesat launched toward the moon today (June 28), but it won't get there until Nov. 13.

Martian rock samples collected by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show signs of key ingredients of life as we know it on Earth.

Astronomers have spotted a white dwarf that miraculously survived its own thermonuclear detonation, raising questions over how and why these stars create supernovas.