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Europe's planned IRISS constellation will consist of 170 satellites and provide a multi-orbital connectivity infrastructure.

Venus and Jupiter will meet up in the night sky on Wednesday (March 1) during a conclave of solar system record breakers, its hottest planet and its largest.

The Mandalorian season 3 kicks off with 'The Apostate', a relaxed but fun episode full of familiar faces that sets up the next steps in Din Djarin and Grogu's journey.

The Virtual Telescope Project will show the two planets meeting in the night sky on Wednesday (March 1) and Thursday (March 2). Here's how to watch.

The surface of Venus is so extreme that even the best landers make it only a few hours before failing. NASA hopes a new type of battery will help.

China sent a secretive remote-sensing satellite named Horus 1 to orbit on Friday night (Feb. 23) as the country begins to ramp up its launch activity.

On Monday (Feb. 27) VMS Eve flew from California's Mojave Air and Space Port to Spaceport America in New Mexico, the hub of Virgin Galactic's commercial operations.

NASA astronaut Josh Cassada captured a stunning shot of green auroras dancing in Earth's skies from his vantage point on the International Space Station.

A solar storm that swept across Earth on Monday (Feb. 27) forced SpaceX to delay a Starlink launch and temporarily disrupted operations of several Canadian oil rigs.

Japan has selected its first new astronaut candidates in more than 13 years. Makoto Suwa and Ayu Yoneda were chosen by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

Two ultra-cool dwarf stars in a binary system are so tight they're breaking records. The stars are so close that they orbit each other in less than a day.

The Hakuto-R moon lander got 855,000 miles (1.376 million kilometers) from Earth on Jan. 20, farther than any other fully commercial spacecraft.

A quartet of large asteroids are zooming by Earth this week, but they'll all pass our planet with millions of miles to spare, according to NASA.

Earth's next-door neighbor Venus may have a "squishy" outer shell that gives the planet a "youthful" appearance and may reveal how it loses its interior heat, studies reveal.

Astronomers interpret the spectra of 10 well-known dark asteroids and find them to be water-rich like the dwarf planet Ceres.

You read that right, you can get the Celestron Travelscope 60 portable telescope for under $40 now, saving over $60 in doing so.

Can one of the best binoculars for kids, the Occer 12x25 compact binoculars, compete with the big-name brands? Our full binocular review and testing reveal the answers.

Spectacular video shows SpaceX deploying the first set of a new generation of Starlink internet satellites after a launch from Florida Monday (Feb. 27).

IDW Publishing is releasing a new five-issue comic miniseries called "Star Trek: The Motion Picture—Echoes."

If the huge Jupiter moon Ganymede is more potentially habitable than previously thought, it could alter the end of Europe's JUICE mission.

The FAA announced a proposal to issue a $175,000 fine against SpaceX for failing to submit a collision-avoidance analysis ahead of an August 2022 Starlink launch.