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Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The mission will launch a radar remote sensing satellite for Italy’s COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation constellation. Follow us on Twitter.

NASA released a new video today (Jan. 27) to remember the three crews and other fallen astronauts who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration.

New evidence finds substantial water on Mars flowed as recently as 2 billion years ago.

Astroscale has suspended its ELSA-d demonstration mission in Earth orbit after detecting "anomalous spacecraft conditions," the Japanese startup announced on Twitter Wednesday (Jan. 26).

The particle was found by smashing billions of lead atoms into each other at extreme speeds.

Three months after launch, a new NASA asteroid spacecraft is still getting settled into its life beyond Earth.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a booster stage converted from two previous Falcon Heavy missions, rolls through NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 8 toward its launch pad. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography

A converted SpaceX side booster that flew on two Falcon Heavy missions in 2019 will launch again Thursday as the first stage of a single-stick Falcon 9 rocket set to lift off from Cape Canaveral with an Italian radar imaging satellite.

Many sci-fi movie monsters have tried to end the human race, but which ones should we really be worried about?

Inside the latest issue of All About Space is our complete guide to exoplanets where we peer into the most extreme alien worlds and hunt for Earth 2.0.

One of the many serious consequences of the climate crisis is that precious permafrost is thawing, and this is unleashing even more carbon to the atmosphere and further exacerbating climate change. However, it’s complicated. For example, sometimes permafrost can thaw rapidly and scientists are unsure why and what these abrupt thaws mean in terms of feedback loops. This makes it difficult to predict the future impact on the climate. Thanks to an ESA–NASA initiative, new research digs deep into understanding the complexities of permafrost thaw and how carbon is released over time.

Sirius, also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A, is the brightest star in Earth's night sky. The name means "glowing" in Greek — a fitting description, as only a few planets and the International Space Station outshine this star.

Mizar and Alcor, stars sometimes referred to as "the horse and the rider," serve as a vision test and an introduction to "double stars."

Keep this list of the best space movies handy for the next time you feel the need to escape from the reality of Earth.

On the 55th anniversary of NASA's fatal Apollo 1 fire, the agency's lessons learned live on as Orion aims for the moon.

The Chinese company Space Transportation is developing a "rocket with wings" for space tourism and point-to-point travel.

This year's edition includes a live panel on safety practices.

A two-stage SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with the CSG-2 radar satellite is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Thursday (Jan. 27) at 6:11 p.m. EST (2311 GMT).

A big kit with big fun – the Lego NASA Space Shuttle Discovery set is an enjoyable build that it out of this world.