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New research suggests moonquakes rooted in ancient fault systems could threaten modern moon missions.

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft successfully tested its ice-penetrating radar system during a close flyby of Mars earlier this year.

NASA is calling on the public to help shape the future of lunar exploration by designing the next generation of wheels capable of navigating the moon's harsh terrain.

A brutal alien planet isn't quite the same as future Earth, but Predator: Concrete Jungle has more than a few things in common with Predator: Badlands.

Measuring binary star systems' basic properties has proved exceedingly difficult.

A strange shift in Earth's rotation is making our days milliseconds shorter — and scientists are racing to understand why.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 28 Starlink satellites from Florida's Space Coast early Monday morning (Aug. 4), then came back to Earth for a landing on a ship at sea.

The red supergiant star Antares will appear close to the waxing gibbous moon tonight.

With more countries looking to explore space, there is a rising hope that space is now more accessible for diverse participants.

Space weather imposes threats on everything from electrical grids to GPS navigation.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will launch Justin Sun, the billionaire founder of the blockchain platform Tron, and five other people to space today. Here's how to watch it live.

A band of misfits aboard a stolen planet-killing starship, the wild, weird Lexx is the best 90s sci-fi show you've never seen.

The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is well preserved, making it a hotspot for space research.

Join us on a guided telescope tour of August's moon, featuring distinct targets for each of the four major lunar phases.

A large lunar crater featured in the iconic 'Earthrise' photo has just helped the European JUICE spacecraft hone its alien-hunting instruments during a once-in-a-lifetime flyby.

SpaceX performed a single-engine "static fire" trial with its newest Starship spacecraft on Thursday (July 31), to help prep the vehicle for an upcoming test flight.

High-speed winds on exoplanet WASP-17b may align quartz crystals in its atmosphere and create dazzling light effects like "sun dogs."

The four Expedition 73 members on SpaceX's Crew-10 mission prepared to come home, while also got the International Space Station ready for its next residents.

The lake was completely drained in the spring of 2025.

A beam of particles speeding away from a monstrous black hole is severely kinked, suggesting that the black hole is actually part of the most extreme binary system known.

A new finding at CERN on the French-Swiss border brings us closer to answering why matter dominates over its opposite, antimatter.