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Lawmakers are demanding answers from NASA about unexplained building closures and workforce losses at the Goddard Space Flight Center during the government shutdown.

The solar system is moving through space over three times as fast as estimated, calling into question our best model of the universe and its evolution.

For North America, the best time to look will be before dawn on Tuesday, Nov. 18.

The three astronauts of China's Shenzhou 21 mission currently have no safe way to get home from the Tiangong space station in the event of an emergency. But that situation is likely to change soon.

SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets in less than four hours overnight Friday (Nov. 14), adding another 58 satellites to its Starlink broadband megaconstellation.

Dive into the dazzling depths of the universe with this galaxy-themed trivia quiz that spans cosmic facts, mysterious phenomena, and the wild wonders of deep space.

These are the Lego sets you're looking for — The UCS Lego Star Wars sets, the best of the best, ranked in a definitive round-up.

NASA budget cuts proposed by President Donald Trump will cause a significant funding shortfall to Europe's space science missions. But the European Space Agency hopes it can save them.

"Throwing a close companion into the mix could possibly wreak further havoc on the already complicated processes surrounding these stars."

Regular stars collapse and die once they run out of fuel for their nuclear reactions, but the white dwarfs just sit there, hanging out, for eternity.

"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a galaxy cluster between us and LAP1-B."

"His planet's dying, too. We're here for the same reason."

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies."

The data is starting to reveal how galaxies and their black holes evolve.

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites in a nighttime liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday (Nov. 18).

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has identified a never-before-seen crater on the moon's surface.

The Very Large Telescope's interferometer targeted four lasers toward the Tarantula Nebula to create an artificial star.

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket just aced its second-ever mission —and returned to Earth safely for the first time. See a video of the booster's dramatic homecoming here.

An expert discusses how the space race to the moon could lead to possible warfare, and how policies could avoid future conflict.

On Episode 186 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Jim Green, NASA's former chief scientist, about snow on the moon.

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