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The final supermoon of the year, the Harvest Moon of September, gave skywatchers the final lunar thrill of the season.

A new long exposure image from the European Southern Observatory captures stars as they travel overhead, creating what is known as star trails with the help of bright laser guide star beams.

Marvel Comics is releasing a set of special "Star Wars Rebels" 10th anniversary comic book covers that celebrate the characters that now appear in the live action series "Ahsoka."

The new moon glows in the sky above Turkey with the reflected light of Earth shining upon it in gorgeous photos by astrophotographer Miguel Claro.

Between 2016 and 2023, researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) used interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), a space-based sensing technique, to 3D map the vertical land motion of the ground beneath New York. They found that during this period, the city sinks an average of 0.06 inches (1.6 millimeters) per year.

NASA's Perseverance rover captured video of a dust devil moving along the western rim of Mars' Jezero Crater on Aug. 30, 2023.

Two decades of Hubble Space Telescope data reveal the stunning threads of a dead star's leftovers.

After surviving its closest approach to the sun, Comet Nishimura was buffeted by a possible coronal mass ejection that briefly blew its tail away. The rare event was captured by a NASA spacecraft.

New photos from Stoke Space show the successful test flight, Hopper2, bringing the company one step closer toward developing fully reusable rockets.

For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the faint glow of the diffuse cosmic web that stretches throughout the known the universe.

A new class of proteins found in methane deposits on Earth's seafloor could help inform the search for alien life.

The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a stunning image of a perfectly formed Einstein ring, which is also the most distant gravitationally lensed object ever detected.

From eye safety to backcountry travel, here's how to stay out of harm's way when eclipse-chasing and observing the 'ring of fire' or partial solar eclipse on Oct. 14, 2023.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is poised to launch from Florida's Space Coast this evening (Sept. 29), carrying 22 Starlink satellites to orbit.

Tokyo-based ispace has opened a U.S. headquarters in order to help the company develop and launch robotic landers to the moon on behalf of NASA and other customers.

The launch of NASA's Psyche mission has been delayed by a week to Oct. 12, so the team can deal with a recently detected thruster issue.

On Wednesday (Sept. 27), China launched a fourth satellite in the Yaogan 33 group, which are believed to be radar reconnaissance craft.

A supernova that recently exploded in the Pinwheel Galaxy has revealed hitherto unknown information about the final days of the star that exploded.

China's Shenzhou 16 astronauts conducted an eye-raising experiment in space involving naked flames aboard the Tiangong space station.

Iran sent its 3rd military satellite to orbit on Wednesday (Sept. 27), lofting the Noor 3 spacecraft atop a Qasem rocket.

NASA is forming a response team after an independent review board examined the agency’s ongoing plans and objectives for its upcoming mission to retrieve samples from Mars.