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Fresh footage flowed in from the U.S. Space Force launch of a military satellite earlier this month, which is part of a constellation aiming to track missiles from orbit.

We see if the Create A Night Sky Projection Kit is worth the cash as a build-your-own star projector.

A rare sight for astronomers, X-shaped radio galaxies defined by massive jets of material extending from them may form when black holes feed new simulations suggest.

Cosmic impacts can make planets and moons more porous than previously thought, potentially boosting their ability to host life, a new study finds.

An experimental high-altitude drone being tested in conjunction with the United States Army has ended its epic flight just hours before breaking the world record for longest flight duration.

SpaceX is scheduled to launch 46 more of its Starlink internet satellites on Wednesday (Aug. 31) at 1:40 a.m. EDT. Watch it live here.

Could a solar storm ever destroy Earth? According to scientists, there's no evidence that any solar weather has ever harmed a human.

The weather has taken a turn for the worse at the Haughton-Mars Project on Devon Island in the Arctic.

Spanning more than a million light years from end to end, the jet shoots away from a black hole with enormous energy, and at almost the speed of light.

Two former NASA administrators, Jim Bridenstine and Charles Bolden, said that Russia could be a difficult space partner.

Space weather watchers observed a series of powerful flares between Aug. 27 and Aug. 29, the most powerful of which registered as a moderate M8-class flare.

NASA delivers a free online Artemis 1 comic book titled, "The Adventures of Commander Moonikin Campos and Friends."

Satellites owned by private companies have played an unexpectedly important role in the war in Ukraine.

Friday (Sept. 2) is still in play for the Artemis 1 launch, NASA officials say, though it's too early to make any definitive statements.

See the young moon over Mercury in the evening sky just after sunset tonight (Aug. 29).

Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted the decades of work it took Artemis 1 to get this far, while NASA's Bill Nelson said the agency will address the issue that led to the scrub Monday (Aug. 29).

An engine cooling issue on NASA's giant new rocket for deep-space exploration forced the agency to call off the booster's much-anticipated launch debut early Monday (Aug. 29).

NASA's SLS rocket spent over a decade in development, and each of its launches of the Orion crew capsule is expected to cost about $4.1 billion.

Another test of general relativity shows that Einstein's theory holds up, and a phenomenon it predicted could be used to investigate the mysterious force known as dark energy, which drives the accelerating expansion of the universe.

NASA has begun tanking up its giant new SLS rocket for its debut launch to the moon, a highly anticipated mission called Artemis 1.

Space.com took to the skies to get you one last look at SLS before it blasts off Monday morning.