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An astronaut on a departing Crew Dragon spacecraft captured this image of the International Space Station in November. The U.S. segment is situated in the upper left of this view, and the Russian segment is on the lower right. Credit: NASA

Kathy Lueders, head of NASA’s human spaceflight operations division, said Monday that joint activities on the International Space Station are continuing amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, including preparations for the return of NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei to Earth on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft March 30.

Rocket Lab lofted a private Earth-observation satellite today (Feb. 28) from the newly finished second pad at its Launch Complex 1, on New Zealand's North Island.

On Friday (Feb. 25), Ingenuity notched yet another milestone, this one of the round-number variety — its 20th Martian sortie.

Could SpaceX replace Russia in space?

Medical research and tech transfer will fill the agenda of the four Axiom-1 crewmembers after they launch to the space station on March 30.

China's Yutu 2 rover has made yet another curious discovery during its travels on the far side of the moon, this time turning up a pair of translucent glass globules.

Humans are reeling under climate disruption, and there's worse to come, scientists warn in the latest UN climate assessment.

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1B on Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand carrying the StriX β synthetic aperture radar satellite for Synspective, a Japanese Earth-imaging company. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.

Four years after one experiment found tentative signs of the "cosmic dawn," the era of the first stars, another experiment finds nothing.

Earth's inner core may be filled with a weird substance that is neither solid nor liquid, according to a new study.

Jupiter's atmosphere has a strange composition, but it could be explained if the planet formed farther away from the sun than where it orbits today, a new study suggests.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the advanced GOES-T weather satellite rolls out to its Florida launch pad today.

Astronomers have discovered a pair of supermassive black holes that whirl around each other every two years.



Was Einstein wrong? His theory of space-time may have to be killed off if we want to better understand the universe.

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Rocket Lab is ready to launch the first mission from its newly built pad in New Zealand on Monday (Feb. 28), and you can watch the event live.

The moon is Earth's closest celestial neighbor, but the temperature on the moon is drastically different.

Space.com reached out to noted experts in the asteroid impact field to gauge similarities between an undersea belch and Earth taking an asteroid punch in the oceans.

The GOES-T satellite is ready to take its place as part of the U.S.'s most sophisticated weather and environmental observation system.