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The dark streaks in Venus' atmosphere — a potential sign of life, according to some researchers — can be explained by Iron-bearing sulfate minerals, a new study reports.

Even though the Starlink constellation has grown by about 1,000 spacecraft in the last six months, its satellites made fewer avoidance maneuvers in that period than in the prior half year.

Directly mapping the Milky Way is an extremely challenging task, but observations of other galaxies helped us piece together what our home galaxy looked like.

The beleaguered private moon lander Peregrine is now on a collision course with Earth, Astrobotic said Saturday.

Nicholas Copernicus was the astronomer who, five centuries ago, explained that Earth revolves around the Sun, rather than vice versa.

In a podcast recorded in November of last year, during his book promotion tour, Stewart said he was excited to receive the new script soon

The nearly new moon is set for a close approach to the gas giant Saturn on Sunday, Jan. 14, at which time the two celestial bodies will also be in conjunction.

We've been 'close' to achieving fusion power for 50 years. When will it actually happen?

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch tonight (Jan. 13), sending 23 Starlink satellites to orbit.

On Episode 93 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod we talk space history and America's desire to go to the moon with former NASA historian Roger Launius.

Astrobotic's Peregrine lander has made it out to lunar distance, a major milestone for the crippled craft — but a moon landing still doesn't seem to be in the cards.

Landing on the moon soon be much easier thanks to NASA's Lunar Retroreflector Array network being carried to the lunar surface on international and commercial landers.

NASA and Lockheed Martin showed off the finished X-59 Quesst jet today, which promises to usher in a new era of quieter supersonic flight.

An unexpected and unexplained gamma-ray signal from beyond the Milky Way found among 13 years of NASA Fermi Telescope data could be linked to another cosmic mystery.

The SpaceX Dragon capsule that will fly the private Ax-3 astronaut mission to the International Space Station has arrived at its launch pad ahead of its planned Jan. 17 liftoff.

Paramount announces new "Star Trek" movie examining the origins of Starfleet

The propellant leak that has crippled Astrobotic's Peregrine moon lander continues to slow, allowing the company to squeeze more science and engineering data out of the craft.

How far would you go to steal to an asteroid? This epic season closer has the answers.

The surface of Venus is a hellscape with temperatures hot enough to melt lead, but some regions of its atmosphere high over the surface remain cool enough to harbor ice and birth ghostly clouds

NASA and NOAA announced that 2023 was the hottest year Earth has experienced, causing severe human and economic impacts worldwide. Models predict that next year could be even hotter.

NASA technicians have finally removed the two stubborn fasteners that prevented them from accessing all of the asteroid samples returned to Earth by OSIRIS-REx in September.