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After a remarkable life in orbit, Aeolus is out of fuel and out of time - it’s returning to Earth this week. Planned before any regulations were put in place on ‘end-of-life’ disposal, the Earth explorer was designed to naturally return through our atmosphere.

The serendipitous discovery of an ancient star crashing through a gathering of young, hot stars could help explain the mysterious abundance of isotopes that existed in the early solar system.

NASA finished its first launch simulation for the crewed Artemis 2 moon mission, which is slated to lift off in late 2024. The exercise is just one of many for the moon mission team.

Scientists may have just found what makes the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, so inexplicably hot.

SpaceX's brawny Falcon Heavy rocket will launch for the seventh time ever tonight (July 26), sending a huge communications satellite skyward. Watch it live here.

On 10 July 2023, a volcano some 30 km from Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, erupted following heightened seismic activity in the area. Satellites orbiting above us have captured the molten lava and smoke plume puffing from the Litli-Hrútur volcano.

SpaceX's last cargo Dragon spacecraft had a thruster valve stuck open while docked with the International Space Station. The company says there should be no effect on the next launch.

SpaceX just loaded propellant into two of its Starship Super Heavy booster prototypes as part of a prelaunch test campaign.

Buzz Aldrin, whose full name is Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin Jr., is an American astronaut, engineer, and space advocate. He was born on January 20, 1930, in Montclair, New Jersey, USA. Buzz Aldrin is best known for being the second person to walk on the Moon during the historic Apollo 11 mission in July 1969, following Neil Armstrong.

Wildfires have been burning across several Greek islands since July 17, causing catastrophic damage and a mass evacuation. New satellite images capture the impact of the fires from space.

SpaceX has shared a photo featuring the business end of the Falcon Heavy rocket set to launch a massive satellite for Maxar Technologies later this week.

Tapping into cosmic X-rays, NASA's IXPE satellite has identified a supermassive black hole blasting its energetic jets straight toward Earth. Don't worry, though, this blazar is tucked away deep in space.

SpaceX and NASA have pushed the planned liftoff of the Crew-7 astronaut mission back by two days to Aug. 17, to get its launch pad reconfigured after a Falcon Heavy liftoff.

Maxar's largest communications satellite ever is being launched soon by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

They say most of your brain shuts down in cryo-sleep. But Riddick is still awake and on his way to Furya and we can’t wait for his return.

Artemis 2's moon crew is meeting a new generation of training. New tech, diversity and instructors form a team aiming to safely send four astronauts around the moon.

The reels are not much to look at and the quality of their recordings exists in other formats. Their pedigree, though, is unique, which is why they could be worth 10 times their weight in gold.

Astronaut Frank Rubio aboard the International Space Station collaborated with a small team of robots on Earth to accomplish a complex task – a first test of a new approach to combine human and robotic capabilities for our return to the Moon and beyond. 

Venus has more volcanoes than any other planet in the solar system, and researchers may now know what is powering them.

The white dwarf J2033 seems to switch rapidly between two compositions.