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The two-stage Atlas V is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 4:04 a.m. EDT (0904 GMT) on Sunday, carrying a mix of payloads for the U.S. Space Force. Watch it live here.

The picture book paints Edwin Hubble's biography in a way that teaches and entertains.

SpaceX has started building a pad for its Starship Mars rocket at Launch Complex 39A, part of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Elon Musk announced on Friday (Dec. 3).

The big problem might not be time zone, but accessibility of the prime Antarctic site.

The Milky Way is our galactic home, but studying it has been notoriously difficult. Thanks to the European Gaia mission, astronomers are finally unravelling the galaxy's fascinating evolution.

A tiny galaxy orbiting at the outskirts of the Milky Way appears to have a giant black hole at its center, comparable to that of the much larger Milky Way itself, and scientists don't know why.

Early Saturday morning, a total solar eclipse will darken skies at the bottom of the world.

The International Space Station dodged a fragment of a decades-old rocket body early Friday morning, continuing a stretch of space debris threats to the orbiting laboratory.

Giving aliens directions to Earth might be tricky, but scientists have some ideas for how to do it.

Before NASA deploys its Artemis Gateway in orbit around the moon, the agency will launch a different, but related "Gateway" at its Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

Three companies snagged a total of $415 million to develop their private space station designs.

What would humanity do if a giant space rock were hurtling directly towards Earth? According to director Adam McKay ("The Big Short," "Anchorman," "Step Brothers"), we might not even care.

There were 48 Starlink satellites on board, plus two Earth observation satellites for BlackSky Global.

Antarctica will see nearly two minutes of totality at most, with surrounding regions getting a partial view.

A live webcast will track a newly found bright Comet Leonard star cluster in the Earth's sky and you can watch it live.

A newfound alien world could shed some light on one of the darkest and strangest corners of the exoplanet family tree.

SpaceX will launch its next stack of Starlink satellites from the East Coast tonight (Dec. 2) as part of a rideshare mission, and you can watch the action live online.

Two NASA astronauts on a spacewalk replaced a faulty antenna outside the International Space Station Thursday (Dec. 2), restoring one of the ways the orbiting outpost communicates with Earth.

RocketLab's next-generation reusable Neutron rocket will operate like an aircraft.

Sky Tonight, from the people behind Star Walk, gives an AR look at the best bits of the night sky you can see tonight

NASA's Curiosity rover snapped a stunning new selfie surrounded by expansive, rocky terrain on Mars.