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India's Chandrayaan-3 moon lander and rover are facing their first lunar night. Their chances of waking up at dawn whittle down to luck.

The United States Space Force has unveiled a concise new mission statement after the service's top officer criticized the previous statement as 'long and cumbersome.'

One researcher hypothesizes that experiments carried out by NASA's Viking landers in 1976 could have inadvertently killed microbes living in Martian rocks. Other experts are skeptical.

The Nightfox 100V is a good budget pair of digital night vision binoculars but it takes a bunch of batteries to power it.

The possible moonquake was detected by India's Chandrayaan-3 mission on its third day on the lunar surface.

Storm chasers with the Air Force Reserve's Hurricane Hunters caught terrifying footage from inside the eye of Hurricane Lee on Sept. 8, showing the storm brimming with lightning.

A "Luminous Fast Cooler" explosion that emits as much energy in weeks as the sun will over 10 billion years could be the result of a black hole wrecking a star.

NASA needs to be more transparent about the costs and schedules for its Space Launch System moon rocket, a newly released audit has found.

Europe's next-generation heavy-lift rocket just took a big step towards its first, much-awaited launch thanks to a successful hot fire of its Vulcain 2.1 engine.

SpaceX plans to launch 22 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit tonight (Sept. 8), and you can watch the action live.

Planning is well underway for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory, a telescope project that will hunt for telltale signs of life in the atmospheres of planets outside the solar system.

With each passing morning, Venus has been rising ever higher and has been getting a little brighter. The planet will reach its brightest in the morning sky on Sept. 19. Here's how to see it.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has closed its investigation into the first flight of SpaceX's giant Starship vehicle, which ended with a bang this past April.

Check out an exclusive 'Star Trek' Day preview for Titan Books' newest release, "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The Making of the Classic Film."

Virgin Galactic launched three of its longest-standing ticketholders today (Sept. 8), sending them to suborbital space on the 'Galactic 03' mission.

NASA's mobile launcher for Artemis 2 is at the launch pad right now for testing. Space.com spoke with the agency to learn how the Space Launch System and related systems will get ready for the historic moon launch with astronauts in 2024.

Originally designed for a simple technology demonstration, Ingenuity has far exceeded its initial one-month, five-flight mission.

The huge 2048Wh capacity of the EcoFlow DELTA 2 Max power station will easily keep you powered up off-grid, but be prepared for a workout.

The first-ever knee cartilage in microgravity was made on the International Space Station. Redwire Corp. says the meniscus will assist with treating military personnel and aging seniors on Earth.

The Perseverance rover's MOXIE experiment produced a total of 122 grams of oxygen on Mars. At its most efficient, it generated 12 grams of the life-sustaining element every hour.

Maxar Technologies' WorldView-1 satellite captured a great photo of SpaceX's Starship vehicle on the launch pad in South Texas ahead of its upcoming test flight.