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Gaia scientists are agog after finding out that the star-spotting spacecraft can double as a planet-hunter.

Mysterious comet K2 made its closest approach to Earth yesterday and is continuing its journey toward the sun.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida this evening (July 14), sending a robotic Dragon resupply craft toward the International Space Station.

The Webb team released some tantalizing photos of Jupiter today (July 14), highlighting the $10 billion telescope's ability to study targets close to home.

The US and Russia reach Mars, but old tensions threaten to divide the historic mission in this exclusive clip for this week's sixth episode of "For All Mankind" on Apple TV+.

The buzz among professional astronomers has been electric since members of the Webb team shared tantalizing test images. And the real images are even better than anyone could have hoped for.

NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter is taking a break during the dust-filled Martian winter that makes it difficult for the helicopter to charge its batteries.

China has sent a new data relay satellite on its way to geostationary orbit to support the nation’s crewed space station project.

The first galaxies in the universe may be chaotic, faint, and small, but no one has seen a galaxy in the universe's first 400 million years. Webb will change that.

The moon commences its monthly tour of the planets by calling in on Saturn on Friday night. The duo will be close enough to share the view with a pair of binoculars.

We countdown the best Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes from an ambitious and emotionally charged series.

If selected, a proposed Chinese mission to Venus could launch in 2026 and arrive at the scorching planet in 2027.

NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope spotted a sandstorm special.

An astronaut will take to the field as a baseball player walks on the moon — at least, the latter in bobblehead format — as part of NASA Night with the Houston Astros.

Our landscape guide helps you grasp the basics required to shoot and edit amazing landscape photography.

Our recommended camera phones for anyone looking to rely on a smartphone for photography and video recording.

All About Space issue 132 takes a detailed look at the ambitious Artemis program, explores dark energy and shines the spotlight on a potential solar system intruder.

Long before I arrived at the James Webb Space Telescope's image release event, I knew the telescope's images would be breathtaking. They still left me speechless.

SpaceX will launch a cargo mission to the International Space Station on Thursday night (July 14), and you can watch it live.

The first exoplanets ever discovered orbit a pulsar, and that's even stranger than scientists thought.

New Horizons is still on duty in extended mission mode, diving ever deeper into the Kuiper Belt to examine ancient, icy mini-worlds in that vast region beyond the orbit of Neptune.