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The historic James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed its first rocky exoplanet, 41 light-years from Earth.

Emissions from a fossil fuel-based power plant have been measured from space for the first time.

Marvel Comics will release a new ongoing "Guardians of the Galaxy" comic book series starting in April.

Space probes that fly close to the sun may help reveal the nature of dark matter, which makes up about five-sixths of all matter in the universe but remains a mystery.

Build the hot-rodded Lego Star Wars The Mandalorian’s N-1 Starfighter from The Book of Boba Fett, complete with a tiny custom passenger seat for Baby Yoda.

Mars's westward retrograde motion through the night sky over will draw to a close on Thursday (Jan. 12) as it resumes its usual prograde eastward journey through the sky.

NASA's NEO Surveyor, a telescope that will look for near-Earth asteroids, is now being built.

Technicians have opened the hatch of NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft, which aced its epic moon mission late last year.

Virgin Orbit made spaceflight history despite its successful launch from Spaceport Cornwall. See some of the best photos from the event here.

Rocket Lab's debut mission from American soil will lift off from Virginia on Jan. 23, if all goes according to plan.

The strange 7-year dimming of a distant star was caused when its oddball stellar companion eclipsed it. The event was serendipitously caught by astronomers and won’t occur again for centuries.

A 'green pea' galaxy seen in an early James Webb Space Telescope image may be the most chemically primitive galaxy ever discovered.

The magnetic fields swept up on the surface of the Local Bubble influence where star formation occurs in the vicinity of the sun.

NASA's Jupiter explorer Juno's memory is back online, and most of the precious images of the gas giant and its volcanic moon Io Juno took just before the glitch hit have been salvaged.

A robotic SpaceX capsule splashed down off the coast of Florida on Wednesday morning (Jan. 11), wrapping up its six-week cargo mission.

The sun has fired off its third powerful X-class solar flare in less than a week, scoring an explosive hat trick.

Hit the music and start the text crawl - here's everything we know about Star Wars Jedi Survivor.

Russia will launch an empty Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station February to replace a damaged spacecraft that is unsafe to return its crew.

Opals, which contain a lot of water, have been found on Mars. They might be an indicator of past life and possibly a source of water for astronauts in the future.

Researchers have discovered more than 200 RR Lyrae stars in our galaxy's stellar halo.

South Korea's first moon mission has delivered a stunning first image from a NASA camera designed to peer into permanently shadowed areas near the lunar poles.