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The Crew-5 astronaut mission is on target to launch Wednesday (Oct. 5), provided SpaceX and NASA clear up three minor issues.

The Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule that will fly SpaceX's next astronaut mission for NASA is poised and ready on the pad.

A SpaceX spacecraft will send three astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut into space on Wednesday (Oct. 5) and NASA has a lineup of events to follow live.

Space.com's editors present a reading list for space and sci-fi lovers, as well as children who are interested in astronomy and spaceflight.

SpaceX will launch 52 more Starlink internet satellites to orbit tonight (Oct. 3), and you can watch the liftoff live.

NASA's Ingenuity drone on Mars had a piece of debris stuck to its leg during a recent flight. While it finished the flight without incident, engineers are assessing what happened.

India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) may have finally reached the end of its operations after eight years spent orbiting the Red Planet.

Clues about water in Earth's deep interior were recently extracted from rare diamonds.

Skywatchers can see the moon half illuminated by the sun at the start of October during the closest first quarter moon of 2022.

The underground ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus may contain significant amounts of phosphorus, which is vital for life as we know it.

The crewmembers of SpaceX's Crew-5 astronaut mission for NASA made it to Kennedy Space Center in Florida Saturday (Oct. 1), a few days later than originally planned due to Hurricane Ian.

On its yearly journey around the sun Earth is about to pass through a field of debris left by Comet Halley. This will be visible as bright fireballs above Earth peaking in mid-October known as the Orionids.

Fingers crossed that "Andor" on Disney Plus will make other major studios realize that clever is cool, be it "Star Wars" or not.

October's full moon — the Hunter's Moon — becomes full on Oct. 9, the same day that Mercury reaches its highest altitude in the predawn sky.

At the end of October and before Halloween the moon will pass between the Earth and the sun creating a partial solar eclipse, making the sun appear like a massive bite has been taken from it.

Newly discovered records of solar eclipses seen in the Eastern Mediterranean reveal how Earth's motion has evolved.

Legendary catadioptric telescope performance, view the stars and far-reaching deep sky objects. Universally loved by astronomers the NexStar 8SE has a strong heritage.

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket aced a test flight today (Oct. 1), successfully delivering satellites to Earth orbit for the first time.

NASA will now work toward getting Artemis 1 on its way to the moon between Nov. 12 and November 27.

Martian ice caps dip and rise and it may be evidence of liquid water lurking underneath them But what keeps that water from freezing?