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A Russian Progress cargo spacecraft will launch toward the International Space Station this afternoon (July 3), and you can watch the action live.

These are our picks of the best space tech deals you can get ahead of Fourth of July and Amazon Prime Day with offers on telescopes, star projectors and more.

3I/ATLAS is the third-ever interstellar object discovered.

Earth is at its farthest point from the sun on July 3. So why are temperatures so high across the U.S.?

The rocky world will be visible for a brief window after sunset.

"…are we potentially the last generation that will see the night's sky in its entirety?"

1. Human Spaceflight Missions

Apollo Program (NASA, USA)

• Goal: Land humans on the Moon and return them safely

The space telescope spied three young stars in the nebula.

MethaneSAT, the first satellite made by an environmental nonprofit organization, was designed to monitor some of the world's largest industrial contributors of greenhouse gas emissions. Now, without power, the spacecraft's mission has abruptly ended.

As the sun grew hotter, so did Mars, prompting much of its atmospheric carbon dioxide to rain out and ultimately get locked up in rocks.

Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of radiation from the star it orbits. These tremendous explosions are blasting away the planet’s wispy atmosphere, causing it to shrink every year.

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own parent stars by being too clingy.

Space.com sat down recently with retired NASA astronaut Terry Virts to talk about space, politics and his run in Texas for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

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Two meteorological missions – Meteosat Third Generation Sounder-1 (MTG-S1) and the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission – have launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US.

Our Red Planet explorers may encounter a peculiar threat.

SpaceX launched 27 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit today (July 2), on the 500th Falcon 9 rocket launch in the company's history.

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to New York as an incoming solar storm could spark geomagnetic storm conditions overnight.