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On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will be visible across North America. You can watch the action unfold live here.

Scientists studied 1,500 supernovas to better understand dark energy and the results call the standard model of cosmology into question.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught the young planetary system Beta Pictoris by the tail seeing a new structure of dust that resembles the lower half of a cat.

Japan launched a reconnaissance satellite called IGS Optical 8 to orbit Thursday night (Jan. 11) in the nation's first mission of the new year.

Check out these six awesome road trips where you can experience the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.

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.

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.

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

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

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.