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You can't stare at the sun, so how do you watch an eclipse? By reflecting it off of a disco ball, a team of astronomers suggests.

The clock is ticking on a space artifacts auction, though this time it is not just any timing device driving the bids. The 'satellite clock' from Scott Carpenter's Mercury capsule is up for sale.

We’ve got geophysics to thank for preventing our precious metals from sinking to Earth’s core.

An annular eclipse will sweep across the Americas on Saturday (Oct. 14), with the sun appearing as a blazing ring of fire. How will the major stages of the eclipse unfold?

SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA's Psyche asteroid mission today (Oct. 13), weather permitting, and you can watch it live.

NASA announced that Boeing's commercial crew vehicle, Starliner, will not carry astronauts in a test flight until at least April 2024. Its first operational flight is also delayed into 2025.

Astronomers have observed two super-Earths colliding in a faraway system for the first time, suggesting such violent impacts are not limited to very young cosmic neighborhoods.

SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket is standing tall on the launch pad ahead of the planned Friday (Oct. 13) liftoff of NASA's Psyche metal asteroid mission.

International sanctions imposed against Russia following the country's invasion of Ukraine mean that a pair of satellites due to fly on Russian rockets in 2022 will need to find a new route to space.

European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen was supposed to step into space Oct. 12. Now facing a delayed spacewalk, he said that was the right call.

New research finds spaceflight does not adversely affect moon rock magnetism, disproving one of two major oppositions to the moon dynamo theory.

India's first solar observatory has made a trajectory correction maneuver to ensure it is on course for a special point in space where it will observe the sun.

They may not be as iconic as Endeavour or as large as the orbiter's external tank, but the sight of twin rockets moving through the streets of Los Angeles was enough to once again draw a crowd.

Popular astronomy app SkySafari has added a special set of features for tracking and viewing this week's annular solar eclipse, available for iOS users.

There are 10 primary types of clouds on Earth. Here you can learn about what they're made of, how they form and how they are classified.

Pink splotches of young star clusters disguise a barred spiral galaxy in a new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope.

These starquakes in space could help us study earthquakes at home.

An annular solar eclipse will be visible across the U.S. on Oct. 14. Here we look at what time the eclipse will start and where it can be seen.

NASA's upcoming Psyche mission could be incredibly valuable — not only for planetary science but also for the budding asteroid mining industry.

Weather on Florida's Space Coast will delay the liftoff of NASA's Psyche mission by at least a day, the agency announced Wednesday evening (Oct. 11).

New spacecraft footage from Mars Express shows off a rugged valley on the Red Planet, shaped by volcanic activity from the famous Tharsis region.