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A parsec is a standard astronomical measurement that is often misunderstood.

This weekend might have three meteor showers active at the same time, combining to provide a celestial firework display almost all through the night.

An unusual galaxy merger boasts multiple interwoven arms in a newly released Hubble Space Telescope image.

The peak shooting star season has arrived with six meteor showers expected to pepper Earth in the upcoming weeks as the planet hurtles through fields of cometary debris.

Social media pictures suggest an unpressurized 'trunk' from the SpaceX Crew-1 Dragon spacecraft might have fallen to Earth near Dalgety on July 8, matching re-entry calculations.

A big Chinese rocket body will crash back to Earth tomorrow (July 30), but nobody knows exactly when or where.

The Delta Aquarrids meteor shower peaks tonight (July 29). The shower commonly generates about 15-20 meteors per hour and is best viewed around 3 a.m. local time.

Europe's planned Venus exploration mission will depend on a challenging aerobraking procedure to lower its orbit, which will test the thermal resiliency of its materials to the limits.

The runaway star is dashing across the galaxy at more than 100,000 mph, thanks to a massive explosion that happened more than a million years ago.

NASA is working toward an Aug. 29 launch target date for Artemis 1, which will use a Space Launch System megarocket to send an uncrewed Orion capsule on a multiweek mission around the moon.

A TikTok video from European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti dished about the smells of the International Space Station, particularly the toilet and trash.

Congress wants the International Space Station to keep going through the end of the decade.

Earth's crust is dripping "like honey" into our planet's hot interior beneath the Andes mountains, scientists have discovered.

Graphene found interlocked with diamonds inside an ancient meteorite could be the key to superfast, supercharged tech.

In addition to supplying data on 2 billion stars throughout the Milky Way, Gaia has provided information about some smaller bodies closer to home.

All of this could've easily been avoided if Topa didn't follow that little blue bug

A huge Chinese rocket body is expected to fall to Earth this weekend, but that doesn't mean you should scurry into a bunker.

NASA's veteran Mars orbiter captured a stunning image of a Martian dune field that reveals intricate details that might help scientists learn more about weather patterns in the planet's past.

The moon's surface is pockmarked with hundreds of little pits, each about the size of a large building, and it may not be just the pits' size that would feel familiar to an astronaut.

The solution as to why gravity is so weak may come from taking a closer look at the Higgs boson.

Bill Ingalls has been a professional photographer for three decades and has served as the Senior Contract Photographer for NASA Headquarters since 1989.