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SpaceX is targeting Thursday (April 20) for the second attempt to launch its Starship vehicle to space. The 62-minute window opens at 9:28 a.m. EDT (1328 GMT).

NASA's defunct, 600-pound (270 kilograms) RHESSI spacecraft will reenter Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday (April 19) at 9:30 p.m. ET, plus or minus 16 hours, the U.S. military predicts.

Astronomers have directly detected and imaged a gas giant orbiting another star by combining different techniques for hunting exoplanets.

The mapping of matter in the cosmos helps to confirm Einstein's theory of general relativity and reveals more about mysterious dark matter.

Marvel Studios releases a new featurette starring the cast and crew of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3."

Space.com talked with the retro-futuristic show's creators on rocket passenger lists and the prospects for returning for a second season of "Hello Tomorrow!"

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has launched a new subsidiary called Crescent Space Services after NASA issued a call for a commercial lunar communications network.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the earliest and most distant galaxies ever spotted by humanity. But why do some of them look so strange and distorted?

The JUICE spacecraft has captured stunning space "selfies" as it departs Earth and embarks on its eight-year voyage to Jupiter.

As the first space launch of the world's most powerful rocket looms, you can now "light" or "land" your own Starship. SpaceX debuted new models of its stainless steel spacecraft.

Scientists have found that the distribution of matter in galactic clusters supports the lambda cold dark matter model of cosmology.

SpaceX shared a video that charts the journey its massive Starship rocket has taken to get to the launch pad ahead of its first orbital flight test.

SpaceX aimed to launch its giant SpaceX rocket to space for the first time ever today (April 17), but it wasn't meant to be.

We've rounded up all the best SpaceX Starship swag you can get on Amazon just in time for its first ever orbital launch.

A rare hybrid solar eclipse occurs on April 20. Here's how to watch it online thanks to free livestreams.

Jeremy Hansen will be the first non-American to leave low Earth orbit on a moon mission.

SpaceX is counting down to its first ever launch of the world's biggest rocket, its towering Starship vehicle, on April 17, but exactly when the rocket will fly depends on several factors.

NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory has trained spacewalking astronauts in a pool for 30 years. Now a part of the facility is changing to address a forecast demand for moon missions.

Scientists have observed that some of Neptune's Trojan asteroids are deep red, possibly revealing what asteroids may have been like in the early days of the solar system.

Earth's magnetic field protects life on our blue planet — and astronomers just found evidence of a magnetic field on a rocky exoplanet 12 light-years away.

How long it takes to get to Jupiter depends on the position and available technology. Here we explore how long a trip to the gas giant would take.