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A massive Mars impact crater dominates a new view from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO).

The first trailer for Max's "Dune: Prophecy" prequel spinoff has just arrived, revealing the origins of the franchise's mysterious Bene Gesserit sisterhood.

The Indian Space Research Organization has released solar storm data from ground stations and spacecraft, including the Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter.

The four winners of the Stephen Hawking Medal 2024 were announced during a medal ceremony at Starmus VII science and music festival in Bratislava, Slovakia.

While the weekend solar event gave us quite the show in the night sky, it also helps scientists learn more about space weather to continue to improve forecasts.

The behemoth sunspot AR3664 has finally rotated out of Earth's view, firing off two more big solar storms on its way out the door. Will it come back?

NASA's plan to build a train track on the moon is part of the agency's Innovative Advanced Concepts program, which aims to develop "science fiction-like" projects for future space exploration.

The Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged an actively star-forming galaxy named UGC 9684.

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet orbiting a red dwarf star, making just the second planetary system seen around one of these tiny, cool, dim, but common, stars.

Astronomers have determined that the Milky Way's outer halo is filled with "magnetic donuts" that are as wide as 100,000 light-years. The discovery could shed light on how cosmic magnetic fields form and evolve.

A preview of NASA's latest issue of "Astrobiology," their fun ongoing graphic novel series

A newly discovered giant planet is the density of a vast cloud of cotton candy. The sweet discovery of WASP-193 b marks the entry of the second-lightest exoplanet ever seen into the exoplanet catalog.

The International Space Station was caught on camera in an incredible new photo from HEO Robotics, which images satellites using space-based sensors.

The family is part of a larger asteroid that was smashed to pieces 130 million years ago.

New research suggests studying the state of magma in deep reservoirs can improve volcanic eruption predictions.

A distant planetary nursery is breaking all records as it shows the extremes to which planet formation can go.

Satellite imagery of Rafah, Gaza, provided by commercial company Planet Labs, offers a spaceborne view of the Israel-Hamas war.

SpaceX launched 20 of its Starlink internet satellites today (May 14), on the company's 50th orbital mission of 2024.

Using tree ring data, scientists have confirmed that summer 2023 was the hottest summer on Earth in the last 2,000 years.

New research shows how disruptions to binary star systems could be the key to detecting space's most confounding substance — dark matter.

The first crewed mission of Boeing's Starliner capsule has been pushed back by four days to May 21, due to a helium leak in its service module.