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NASA's Curiosity rover has left plenty of marks on Mars over the past nine-plus years, and the Red Planet is returning the favor.

Seeing the same target again has the comfort of a beloved rerun, while offering the opportunity for new discoveries.

Some astronomers say the collision is "not a big deal," but to a space archaeologist like me it's quite exciting.

The planet Venus has returned to the early morning sky and has established itself as a dazzling morning lantern, emerging into view from beyond the east-southeast horizon before 5 a.m. local standard time.

India plans to give landing on the moon a second try with its Chandrayaan 3 mission, which is now targeted to launch in August.

The Russian space agency released a proposal to allow its Progress cargo ships to arrive in a single orbit, an unprecedented two-hour flight.



Earth and even the sun are puny compared to a mighty, hulking source of gamma-rays.

The rocket stage helped heft the Echostar 23 satellite to orbit in 2017.

A SpaceX rocket's upper stage was caught on camera careening toward a collision course with the moon.

The first-stage engines of Astra's Launch Vehicle 0008 fired up as planned today (Feb. 7), but the rocket aborted the liftoff try shortly thereafter due to a telemetry issue.

Our universe was born 13.7 billion years ago in a massive expansion that blew space up like a giant balloon.

In life, Mary Golda Ross helped develop a rocket stage that served as a rendezvous and docking target for astronauts preparing to go to the moon. A new statue, donated by Olay, honors her legacy.

Elon Musk will give a big Starship update — his first since the fall of 2019 — on Thursday (Feb. 10) at 9 p.m. EST (0200 GMT on Feb. 11).

It will soon be time to bid a fond adieu to an object that has been a fixture in our evening sky since late last summer: the planet Jupiter.

A new SpaceX video has captured a striking view of two critical moments in any rocket launch: stage separation for its booster and nose cone jettison.

Gaseous mini-Neptunes may become rocky super-Earths when they lose their atmospheres. Now, astronomers have caught that process in action.