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A new type of exoplanet, one made half of rock and half of water, has been discovered around the most common stars in the universe. The find may have great consequences in the search for alien life.

NASA's next attempt to launch its new megarocket on a test flight to the moon could lift off by Sept. 23, but only if the agency fixes a leak and receives a critical waiver from the U.S. Space Force.

Using its DRACO camera, DART has imaged the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos.

The world's largest and most powerful space telescope is now for sale at your local U.S. post office. A postage stamp depicting the James Webb Space Telescope has been released by the USPS.

Every month the moon pairs up with Saturn and in September this conjunction will be seen in the evening time, visible with the naked eye.

It's been 50 years since humans last visited the moon, and even robotic missions have been few and far between. But the Earth's only natural satellite is about to get crowded.

The 3D modeling of a planet's orbit around a star in a binary star system is raising new questions about how both gas giant planets and binary stars form.

Bosons are at the heart of interactions between matter, carry the universe's fundamental forces, and help the constituents of matter stick together.

Scientists are making the coldest matter in the universe, chilling below the temperature of deep space and just above absolute zero.

A Newtonian reflector that is versatile, affordable and optically impressive with an equatorial mount to view solar system objects, double stars and deep sky targets.

All About Space issue 134 debunks 20 myths about the universe from the color of the sun to the dark side of the moon. Explore the latest issue here.

NASA has selected Houston company Axiom Space to build the moon spacesuits for Artemis 3, a mission that aims to land astronauts near the lunar south pole in 2025 or 2026.

Set phasers to livestream, Trek fans, because Star Trek Day 2022 is read to beam you in Sept. 8 and you can watch it live online for free.

Rocket Lab has signed an unfunded agreement with the United States Transportation Command to study the possibility of using Electron and Neutron launchers to deliver cargo around the world.

Tabletop game publisher Ravensburger dives into the vast world of "Star Wars" by releasing its "Villainous" board game.

Devon Island is one of the most radio-quiet places in the northern hemisphere, a perfect place for the Haughton-Mars Project to conduct the EDGES experiment.

The U.S. Air Force conducted an early-morning suborbital test of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, on Wednesday (Sept. 7).

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope could change how we explore the sun and our understanding of hazardous solar flares.

Venus is being hammered by wild space weather this week after a giant sunspot, not visible from Earth, expelled an enormous plasma burst toward the scorching-hot planet.

Russia's reactivation of lunar exploration via its robotic Luna 25 lander has slipped to 2023.

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a strange exoplanet shrouded in clouds made of sand-like silicate grains.