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Venus' dense and stormy atmosphere is the cause why a day on the scorching planet is longer than a year, a new study suggests.

Lego is offering up the Ultimate Collector Series Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder set just in time for Star Wars Day 2022.

All four of Webb's instruments now capture "crisp, well-focused images" of celestial objects, NASA says.

A restless sunspot sent off a double solar flare on Monday (April 25), temporarily disrupting some radio communications in Asia and Australia.

300 lucky artists will have their art flown on a one-way ticket to the moon.

Humanity is preparing for the next stage of space exploration that will involve stepping foot on the moon and Mars, by testing its astronauts' mission readiness.

NASA's Psyche is scheduled to launch in August to journey to a metal asteroid.

A gigantic "potentially hazardous" asteroid that may be twice the size of the Empire State Building is set to zoom past Earth Thursday (April 28), according to NASA.

Snap incredible photos of the solar system and beyond using one of the best cameras for astrophotography.

NASA's new X-59 supersonic jet arrived at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works facility for assembly ahead of a flight test this year.

We take a look at a selection of the best telescopes mounts currently on offer.

Two Russian cosmonauts will spend hours spacewalking outside the International Space Station. Watch it live

What do you get when you cross a turtle with a chimp and send both into outer space? A whole lot of shenanigans. Or at least that is the story behind SpaceX Crew-4's plush turtle and small monkey.

Boeing is finally ready to test its Starliner again in space, with an uncrewed launch set for May 19.

The SR-72 hypersonic spy plane being designed by Lockheed Martin is the successor to the legendary SR-71 Blackbird

Early next month, Rocket Lab is slated to launch a pathfinding cubesat mission that supports NASA's Artemis return-to-the moon program.

Capture a solar eclipse on camera to reveal one of nature's most spectacular sights.

The SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts seemed to be enjoying themselves as they tested out their spacesuits ahead of their return to Earth.

The last man to have set foot on the moon watched today as Crew-4 blasted off to the International Space Station atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.

For the second time in less than three weeks, SpaceX has delivered an astronaut crew to the International Space Station.

Strapped into a SpaceX Dragon capsule, a crew of four astronauts blasted off from Earth this morning (April 27) on a mission to space. Also on board? My DNA.