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United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan Centaur rocket will fly for the first time on May 4, if all goes according to plan.

Less than a month from now, we'll learn who will fly on Artemis 2, NASA's first crewed moon mission since the Apollo era.

As humanity increasingly fills the space around Earth with satellites, scientists have urged for an international treaty that could tackle the orbital debris these operations generate.

The sand dunes of Mars come in a wide range of shapes and sizes, but a new image shows sand dunes that are surprisingly near-perfect circles.

A planet-forming disk around a distant star has revealed an abundance of water that may indicate the solar system's water is older than the sun.

President Joe Biden's 2024 federal budget request allocates $27.2 billion to NASA, a 7% increase over the amount the agency got this year.

If wormholes exist, they might magnify distant objects according to Einstein's theory of relativity — and that makes it possible for us to find them, new research suggests.

The experience, released Wednesday (March 8), is based upon the Emmy-awarding winning 'Space Explorers' that aired in 2020.

In a season of just 10 episodes, it's staggering just how inconsistent it can be from one episode to the next

For the next few weeks in March, the sky to the west is illuminated by a pyramid of ethereal glow after twilight known as the zodiacal light.

Antarctic sea ice shrunk to a record low in February, satellite measurements revealed.

After the Meta Quest price hike last year, this is the cheapest we've seen the 256GB version, and it comes with two free games to boot.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will give his annual 'State of NASA' address, an update about the agency's plans and achievements, on Thursday (March 9) at 3 p.m. ET.

SpaceX will launch 40 broadband satellites to orbit for the U.K. company OneWeb on Thursday (March 9), and you can watch the liftoff live.

SpaceX's Crew-5 astronaut mission for NASA is scheduled to depart the International Space Station on Thursday (March 9), and you can watch the action live.

The space startup Relativity Space called off the first-ever flight of its new 3D-printed rocket on Wednesday (March 8) after a last-minute abort and temperature issues during the countdown.

The past year saw the first long-duration flight by a woman Black astronaut along with the first spaceflight by a female Native American, among other milestones.

Space Force wing Space Launch Delta 45 has allocated three launch pads at the historic Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to four private companies.

The International Space Station (ISS) had to maneuver out of the way of an Earth-imaging satellite on Monday (March 6).

The splashdown date for Crew-5 may shift according to weather, NASA and SpaceX said.

Kat Echazarreta, the first Mexican-born woman to fly into space, and space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock now have Barbie dolls honoring them as STEM role models.