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Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is richer in organic molecules than scientists thought, which could have implications for how life on Earth began.

For practically all of human existence, we've been fascinated by our closest celestial neighbor, incorporating it into myth, fantasy and scientific research.

China is building the world's largest array of telescopes dedicated to studying the sun with the aim of understanding coronal mass ejections which can cause chaos on and above Earth.

NASA's historic Artemis 1 mission will launch toward the moon one week from today (Aug. 22), if all goes according to plan.

On day six it was time for our first traverse away from the Haughton-Mars Project base on Devon Island in the Arctic.

NASA has just announced its free livestream coverage plans for the Artemis 1 launch

Hundreds of fragments of a rare transparent type of quartz called "rock crystal" were used to decorate Neolithic graves and other structures at a ceremonial site in the west of England, archaeologists say.

The new phase was made by firing lasers at 10 ytterbium ions inside a quantum computer.

For the first time, authorities have given a heat wave a name. Scientists hope that naming extreme heat events will help the public protect itself.

Exoplanet images might be contaminated by the light from their neighbors, a new study suggests, but scientists are learning how to remove the effects of these photobombers.

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a star-studded cluster in the constellation Sagittarius.

Hard science fiction author Eric Choi talks about the inspiration behind the stories in his new collection, "Just Like Being There", which draws from many real-life space stories.

The Haughton-Mars Project is planting flags and leaving footprints, but in a very different way than Apollo astronauts did on the moon.

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship returned to Earth with an ocean splashdown on Saturday (Aug. 20).

A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission is all set to make a short trip to space to test new technologies and collect new information from remains of an exploded star.

China launched three classified remote sensing satellites on Friday (Aug. 19), which are joining three earlier sets of Yaogan 35 series reconnaissance satellites in orbit.

The European Space Agency will ask its member states to fund a preparatory space-based solar power program at a major meeting later this year.

The twin probes, launched in 1977, made groundbreaking discoveries about the solar system and inspired future space missions.

Firefly Aerospace is ready to get back to space, the company said, after completing a static fire test before sending its Alpha rocket into space again next month.

Debris from the most spectacular comet outburst ever is visible from Earth this month and astronomers hope the observations might shed light on the puzzling event that brightened up the sky in 2007.

Rocket Lab aims to send a probe to Venus soon, and a new paper lays out the details of the ambitious mission.