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An immersive, virtual reality experience will put viewers next to the launch pad as Artemis 1 lifts off for the moon. The mission is scheduled for Aug. 29.

The Ukrainian government will get access to imagery collected by a commercial constellation of synthetic aperture radar satellites, as well as the full, dedicated services of one of those spacecraft.

Despite astronomy's success in detecting worlds outside the solar system, there is a troubling gap in the exoplanet catalog. New research may show why Neptune-sized exoplanets are tough to locate.

Thanks to 26 teams of observers, spotting a star blink out showed that asteroid Polymele has a moon.

The Voyager missions are icons of cosmic exploration, and you can celebrate their 45th anniversary with a free webcast tonight (Aug. 18).

Disney/Lucasfilm brings back "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" in IMAX this month for select screenings

The Japanese company Sky Perfect JSat has chosen Starship to launch its Superbird-9 communications satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit in 2024.

Artemis 3 is a planned landing mission that will put humans on the surface of the moon. It is scheduled to touch down in 2025, assuming previous missions go to plan.

Artemis 2 will launch a crew of astronauts to the moon's orbit in a system using the Space Launch System megarocket and Orion spacecraft.

NASA's Space Flight Awareness program has a created a new Snoopy poster based on an old design.

NASA will unveil potential future landing sites for human return on the surface of the moon and you can watch the briefing on Space.com tomorrow (Aug. 19), or directly on the space agency's website.

NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission is the first-ever space mission designed to test planetary defense technologies in asteroid deflection.

Three mannequins and several biological and radiation experiments will assess the radiation environment near the moon during Artemis 1.

Save over $13 on a 1:200 scale model rocket that's easy-to-assemble and perfect for beginners.

NASA's twin probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have been exploring the cosmos for 45 years. Here, we take a look at some of their best images.

The OMOTENASHI mission is the only secondary payload on Artemis 1 that will have a controlled landing on the surface of the moon.

A 66 million-year-old impact crater has been discovered off the coast of West Africa, raising questions about just how many deadly space rocks the dinosaurs had to deal with.

On the morning of Friday (Aug. 18), the moon and Mars will both be visible in the eastern sky.

Astronomers are looking for clouds made of vaporized gems and metals on faraway exoplanets.

NASA has already identified its top candidate panelists for the UFO study, which is expected to begin this fall and last about nine months.

NASA's Europa Clipper probe, which will look for traces of life on Jupiter's ice-covered moon Europa, is coming together at an assembly lab that saw the birth of some of the space agency's most iconic missions.