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NASA's sun-grazing spacecraft is making its ninth daring dive past our neighborhood star in a continuing quest to puzzle out secrets of how the sun works.

Fireballs blaze through the dark night sky in this NASA footage of the annual Perseid meteor shower.

Boeing is still hoping to achieve an August launch date for its Starliner capsule amid continuing technical problems with the spacecraft.

Northrop Grumman's next Cygnus cargo ship will launch on a journey to the International Space Station tomorrow carrying with it a bevy of research investigations and crew supplies.

Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system and is known for its short years, long days, extreme temperatures and weird sunsets.

Hundreds of scientists with a UN panel reviewed more than 14,000 studies documenting climate change evidence, to create a new report for policymakers worldwide.

Artist Micah Johnson's animated character Aku flew to the International Space Station and back last month. Space.com caught up with Johnson to discuss the milestone and what it means.

A new NASA video showcases the whirring symphony of stars in our cosmic neighborhood.

Jupiter's mysterious "energy crisis" that has puzzled astronomers for 50 years could be caused by auroras, new observations suggest.

Although scientists don’t fully understand the varying strengths of the factors contributing to the slowdown, all of them are linked to human-caused climate change.

Despite the apocalyptic appearances, galactic mergers are a frequent and essential part of a galaxy’s life cycle.

BepiColombo and Solar Orbiter will fly by Venus on Monday (Aug. 9) and Tuesday (Aug. 10), respectively.

Astronaut Walli Beckwith leads a principled revolt from the International Space Station in Kluger's latest space-based novel.

The telescope is so large, it has to be folded into the rocket that will launch it.

SpaceX's Starship is officially the world's tallest rocket, and Elon Musk is over the moon.

Perseverance drilled its first sample-collecting hole on Friday (Aug. 6), but data beamed back to Earth by the rover indicate that no Mars rock or dirt made it into the sampling tube.

Mars' Gale Crater may not have been so wet after all, a new study suggests.

LP 40-365 will probably leave the galaxy at some point, scientists say.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity captured stunning new aerial views of Jezero Crater during its most complex flight yet.

NASA's Perseverance rover has notched another milestone on Mars, drilling its first hole for sampling Red Planet rock.

SpaceX's newest Starship prototype was briefly placed atop of its massive booster for the first time on Friday (Aug. 6), setting a new record for the world's tallest rocket.