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The Ax-1 mission has been pushed from April 3 to April 6 to accommodate the "wet dress rehearsal" of NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission, which is taking place this weekend on Florida's Space Coast.

The waning gibbous moon as viewed from the International Space Station on Jan. 21. Credit: NASA

The White House’s fiscal year 2023 budget request for NASA totals $26 billion, including $7.5 billion for the agency’s Artemis moon program, a boost over this year’s budget to help pay for development of a second human-rated lander to ferry astronauts to the lunar surface.

Blue Origin has delayed the fourth crewed launch of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle from Tuesday (March 29) to Thursday (March 31), citing predicted high winds over the next couple of days.

"Dune" was honored last night at the 94th Academy Awards with six Oscars.

The NASA-ESA campaign to haul Mars samples back to Earth will require two Red Planet landers instead of one. The change will delay the arrival of samples here by two years, to no earlier than 2033.

Artemis and climate change are among the priorities for the Biden administration in its 2023 NASA budget request.

A Hungarian astronomer nearly discovered a second space rock on a collision course with Earth in less than one month.

The transit of a large cloud of protoplanetary rubble across the face of a young star gave the Spitzer Space Telescope our best view yet of planetary evolution in action.

A newly-discovered asteroid about the size of a house is passing close by Earth on Monday (March 28) but is no cause for alarm.

Inside the latest issue of All About Space you'll find the secrets of black holes, the greatest space mysteries and several ways the universe could kill us.

Satellites owned by the U.S. Earth observation company Maxar spotted a container ship that had been stuck for over two weeks in the shallow waters of the Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore, Maryland.

Sebastian Voltmer captured a photo of NASA astronaut Raja Chair and the European Space Agency's Matthias Maurer performing a spacewalk on March 23. And he took it from Maurer's hometown.

Here's why NASA has different radiation limits for male and female astronauts, and how these limits may change in the near future.

The poles of the Moon have emerged as enticing goals for future exploration, given their potential for harbouring water and other volatiles. So ESA and the European Space Resources Innovation Centre, ESRIC, challenged European and Canadian engineering teams to develop vehicles capable of prospecting resources within in these shadowy regions – then put their designs to the test in a realistic lunar analog environment. Five winning teams have now been selected from this challenge, receiving €75 000 contracts each to move their rovers forward to the next phase of the contest.

In our recent study, we uncovered how artificial light is disrupting these nightly migrations.

NASA continues to prepare for a crucial test that will pave the way for the launch of its Artemis 1 moon mission.

A galaxy's overdeveloped spiral arm dominates the foreground of a stunning new image from the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii.

NYT bestselling novelist Rob Hart comments on his new sci-fi book, "The Paradox Hotel."

On March 4, a lonely, spent rocket booster hit the moon at nearly 6,000 mph. Studies of its crater could reveal new science.