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Check out this incredibly detailed image of the Running Chicken Nebula — IC 2944 — captured by astrophotographer Rod Prazeres.

A video outlining China's moon base plans depicts a wide number of concepts, including surface sample return operations, a lander and rover, and supporting orbital satellites.

NASA's exoplanet hunter TESS may have detected its first free-floating planet with a little help from Einstein.

During a gravity assist with Mars, Hera will study the moon Deimos.

China's Shenzhou 17 astronauts touched down safely this morning (April 30), bringing their six-month mission to a successful close.

Disney+ Star Wars series "Obi-Wan Kenobi" and "Andor" land on home video starting April 30 in both 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray steelbook formats.

The United States and Canada aim to upgrade NORAD to deal with emergent space threats from nations like China or Russia. Canada will hold an industry day May 1 to gather more ideas.

Portal has developed a new satellite bus called Supernova that the company says will allow unprecedented mobility in Earth orbit and beyond.

The hypothetical ninth planet may be slingshotting Oort Cloud objects onto orbits that come closer to the sun than Neptune does.

NASA picked a crew of four volunteers to undergo a simulation of life on Mars. The project will begin on May 10.

With its "mighty mast," NASA's Polar Exploration Rover dubbed VIPER continues to be prepped for its mission to the moon slated for late 2024.

The atlas, which is available in Chinese and English, depicts the surface of the moon with a scale of 1:2.5 million. It highlights many intriguing geological features, such as impact craters.

What would happen if our closest neighbor, the moon, disappeared? Here we explore the possible effects it could have on the environment and life on Earth.

The James Webb Telescope has zoomed in on the Horsehead Nebula, capturing slices of this stunning star-forming region close to Earth in an entirely new light.

China reportedly plans to launch its Chang'e 6 sample-return mission toward the moon's mysterious far side on Friday (May 3).

Boeing Starliner's 1st astronaut crew continues their training, even in quarantine. After finishing a big dress rehearsal on April 26, practice continues ahead of the scheduled May 6 launch to the ISS.

NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams are slated to launch on Boeing’s first crewed test flight of its Starliner capsule, flying to the International Space Station on May 6.

A preview of Mad Cave Studios' new "Flash Gordon" comic book series coming in July.

A new model of Enceladus "tiger stripe" fractures and their connection with the moon of Saturn's ice geysers and subsurface oceans could have implications for its ability to support life.

Astronomers finally know why giant binary stars born from the same collapsing cloud of gas and dust can be "non-identical twins" with different characteristics and planetary systems.

Space.com caught up with ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher recently to talk about Europe's space plans and priorities going forward.