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CAPSTONE reached its farthest point from Earth on Friday afternoon (Aug. 26), getting a whopping 951,908 miles (1,531,948 kilometers) from its home planet.

New observations from ALMA and Hubble show the after-effects of a galactic merger   — a tremendous 'tail' of gas and stars extending from a massive early galaxy.

Make sure you're ready for this year's extra special Jupiter opposition with specialist kit from Celestron.

Make sure you're ready for this year's extra special Jupiter opposition with specialist kit from Celestron.

NASA is now targeting Saturday (Sept. 3) for the launch of Artemis 1, whose first liftoff attempt on Monday (Aug. 29) was scuttled by a technical issue.

Cruise ships will use SpaceX satellites to boost their Internet and wifi speed, in a shot across the bow to competitor OneWeb.

Voyager 1 is once again beaming back clear telemetry data on its status beyond our solar system, solving one mystery and leading to another.

On the surface, the determination of a zodiac sign seems devilishly simple. As the Earth orbits around the sun, our star appears in front of different constellations.

Blue Origin plans to launch its next space mission on Wednesday morning (Aug. 31), and you can watch the uncrewed action live.

Read the latest news about particle physics.

Satellites have been helping the world keep tabs on the catastrophic Pakistan floods, which have killed more than 1,100 people and damaged over a million homes.

A sequence of videos compares the views of the spectacular Phantom Galaxy, also known as M74, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope and its predecessor Hubble.

Fresh footage flowed in from the U.S. Space Force launch of a military satellite earlier this month, which is part of a constellation aiming to track missiles from orbit.

A rare sight for astronomers, X-shaped radio galaxies defined by massive jets of material extending from them may form when black holes feed new simulations suggest.

We see if the Create A Night Sky Projection Kit is worth the cash as a build-your-own star projector.

An experimental high-altitude drone being tested in conjunction with the United States Army has ended its epic flight just hours before breaking the world record for longest flight duration.

Cosmic impacts can make planets and moons more porous than previously thought, potentially boosting their ability to host life, a new study finds.

Two former NASA administrators, Jim Bridenstine and Charles Bolden, said that Russia could be a difficult space partner.

Spanning more than a million light years from end to end, the jet shoots away from a black hole with enormous energy, and at almost the speed of light.

The weather has taken a turn for the worse at the Haughton-Mars Project on Devon Island in the Arctic.

Could a solar storm ever destroy Earth? According to scientists, there's no evidence that any solar weather has ever harmed a human.