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China's first Mars rover has captured its first sounds of the Red Planet and beamed back stunning views of a drive on the dusty world.

After we dug into the game, we spoke with the creative director to learn more about its inspiration and development.

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider obtained the result by analyzing over 30.6 million particle decays, and are aiming to look with more precise detectors when the atom smasher powers up again in September.

The National Space Society (NSS) will hold its flagship annual event virtually this year, starting on Thursday (June 24) — and you can watch most of it live, for free.

These are the top space stories this week from Space.com.

Life in the clouds of Venus is impossible due to the extremely low amount of water despite last year's findings suggesting the presence of organic material.

The U.S. Space Force has a new primer for activities beyond Earth orbit amid increased NASA and international interest in lunar activities.

The International Space Station was photographed crossing the disk of the sun just as astronauts Thomas Pesquet and Shane Kimbrough worked outside to install the second Roll-Out Solar Array.

Martian dust accumulating on the panels of the InSight lander could force the Red Planet mission to end its work within the next 10 months, NASA warned during a recent update.

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship will cast off from the International Space Station today and you can watch it live here, courtesy of NASA TV.

SpaceX is preparing one of its veteran rockets to launch dozens of small satellites into space on Tuesday afternoon (June 29).

After more than four years of exploring a menagerie of cosmic happenings through gravitational waves, scientists have finally spotted the third expected variety of collision — twice.

Europe's veteran X-ray telescope XMM Newton photographed an isolated cloud of gas in a distant galaxy cluster that has been puzzling astronomers for four years.

On June 29, 1971, a Soviet space mission ended in tragedy when three Russian cosmonauts were found dead inside their spacecraft after returning to Earth. See how it happened in our "On This Day In Space" series!

Some of the most fascinating worlds in our cosmic neighborhood are not planets, but the moons that orbit around them.

SpaceX is still shooting for July for the first orbital flight of its huge Starship Mars rocket, though the company may not meet that target.