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A huge solar flare from the sun has spawned a Halloween northern lights show that has stargazers over the moon.

Skies will be mainly clear on Saturday night (Oct. 31) across the contiguous United States, as costumed kids arrive at the door looking for candy or some other Halloween treat.

The inner core of our planet is actually a mishmash of hard, mushy and liquid metal.

Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe?

The next astronauts to return to Earth on a SpaceX Dragon won't be able use a crucial system on their trip home next month: the space potty.

Elon Musk is an entrepreneur best known in space circles for launching SpaceX, the first private company to launch a mission to the International Space Station.

The Apollo 13 mission was an example of NASA's ingenuity under pressure.

When NASA returns astronauts to the moon, National Geographic will be aboard to share the journey with the public. The agency chose the media company to help tell the story of the Artemis 2 mission.

Author Rebecca Siegel has taken her love of space to new heights for Halloween this year.

NASA's Juno snapped the first photo of the north pole of Europa, Jupiter's icy moon.

Since 2014, there have been over 300 proposals for solutions to the "crisis in cosmology." None of these proposals is universally agreed upon by cosmologists, and the crisis just keeps getting worse.

SpaceX and NASA have delayed the launch of the Crew-3 astronaut mission to Nov. 3.

A new NASA video shows stunning views of solar flares from the sun just before Halloween.

A Russian cargo ship docked at the International Space Station Friday (Oct. 29) with 3 tons of supplies and treats before Halloween.

NASA officials say that the agency's Halloween astronaut launch will not be affected by a massive solar flare that's scheduled to hit Earth this weekend.

Read on for a brief history of UFO sightings, potential explanations for them, and cultural attitudes toward the phenomenon.

Hubble's science instruments went into a protective safe mode on Monday (Oct. 25) after suffering an issue with internal spacecraft communications.

Players of "Star Trek Online" are facing down the game's first Halloween event, which is a battle for lives, souls and possibly the universe itself.

A dead space telescope's data reveals a gas cloud that looks like the iconic sci-fi monster Godzilla.

Just in time for Halloween, the long-running Hubble Space Telescope has captured a creepy image of a star surrounded by soot.

Earth impact craters are unique tourist destinations. Here are some striking craters you can visit in person or from the comfort of your home with Google Earth.