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The James Webb Space Telescope's powerful infrared instruments will be trained on three types of comets, potentially providing insight into the solar system's early life.

It's clear that space weather can cause blackouts, but scientists are still working to predict extreme events and forecast their potentially devastating effects.

A stubborn solar array on the NASA Lucy mission might yield enough to allow the mission to continue its asteroid-hunting mandate with few issues, NASA reports.

For its last international deployment, the aircraft returns to Christchurch for a seventh and final time.

One of the instrument's early programs includes performing spectroscopy on stellar nursery NGC 133 to spot the small, dark celestial bodies.

Virgin Orbit just aced its fourth mission in a row, launching seven small satellites in the company's first-ever night flight.

A missile-warning satellite and another spacecraft are on their way to orbit to help the U.S. military get better at tracking fast-moving threats.

Capable of both destruction and creation, space volcanoes are common on planets and moons throughout the solar system and beyond.

China's first successful interplanetary mission has completed mapping the Red Planet more than a year after its arrival.

Marvel Comics releases its long-awaited "Predator" series from Ed Brisson and Kev Walker.

NASA's little CAPSTONE cubesat is making good progress on its long journey to the moon.

China has launched another in its series of Gaofen Earth observation satellites as it continues building out its space infrastructure.

A new study suggests that high-impact exercise could help astronauts limit bone loss while in space.

A hot, dry start to summer has spurred a record number of wildfires in southern Alaska, and weather satellites are tracking the development of the blazes from space.

NASA's Perseverance rover is on the hunt for the "goldilocks" of rocks to sample on Mars.

An amateur astronomer found a fossilized surprise in the well-studied sky near the bright Andromeda Galaxy.

SpaceX's Starlink satellites are providing data to NOAA to help improve space weather forecasts as spacecraft operators struggle with unexpected effects of frequent solar eruptions.

July's full moon will once again be a supermoon, reaching its perigee or closest point to our planet on July 13.

Artemis Base Camp will be established in the moon's south polar region, in a to-be-determined spot that features plentiful sunlight, direct-to-Earth communications and good access to water ice.

One of the farthest active comets ever spotted will make its closest approach to Earth on July 14, and here's how you can catch the action live.

The United States Space Force has activated a new unit that is tasked with providing "critical intelligence on threat systems, foreign intentions and activities in the space domain."