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The U.S. government has published an updated action plan for how to deal with potentially dangerous asteroids.

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope revealed the chemical composition of dusty planet-birthing disks of material around distant stars.

The Hakuto R lander, built by Tokyo-based iSpace, was to be a commercial mission to the Moon, but it has yet to phone home on landing day.

The Hakuto-R lander, built by Tokyo-based company ispace, seems to have failed today (April 25) in its attempt to become the first private spacecraft to touch down on the moon.

Astronomers witnessed a young Jupiter-size planet as it carves out spiral-shaped cavities in the disk of planet-birthing gas and dust that surrounds its parent star.

Live coverage of the landing of ispace’s commercial Hakuto-R spacecraft on the moon. The landing attempt is scheduled for around 12:40 p.m. EDT (1640 UTC). Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

Astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station have been testing out ways to convert heat into electrical power.

Adobe Lightroom is constantly raising its game with every update, but is it still the best image editing and organization software out there?

Disney+ releases new poster and launch trailer for "Star Wars: Visions Vol. 2" at Star Wars Celebration

The ESA/NASA SOHO observatory has overturned 14 years of thinking about the strange Sun-skirting ‘rock comet’ known as Phaethon that could reopen the mystery of how the Geminid meteor shower was born.

On its way to a planned moon landing later today, a Japanese mission captured a unique 'Earthrise' picture of our planet showing the moon's shadow upon the surface.

Relativity Space is a California-based startup company that has produced the world's first 3D-printed rocket, the Terran-1. We explore the company in more detail here.

For nearly five years, we've been teased and evidently Paramount thought, 'It's now or never'

Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher's son had always known he was "different". Here's everything you need to know about Jack Crusher.

Not one, but two rocket launches with ESA-led experiments are flying to the edge of space just a week apart, providing unique data to researchers eager to learn more about fundamental physics, semiconductor production, the formation of planets and how our immune cells react to spaceflight.

United Launch Alliance's plans for a first launch of its new Vulcan rocket have been complicated by a violent explosion during testing of the rocket's upper stage.

The moon and Mars make a close approach and will be in conjunction on Tuesday, April 25. The pair will be visible to the unaided eye in the right conditions.

SpaceX will launch 46 Starlink satellites and land the returning rocket at sea Tuesday morning (April 25), and you can watch the action live.

The Martian moon Deimos, with the Red Planet in the background, was captured in imagery by the UAE’s Hope orbiter March 10. Credit: Emirates Mars Mission / MBRSC

The United Arab Emirates’ Hope probe has seen the far side of the Martian moon Deimos up close for the first time, collecting compositional data suggesting it may have formed from material that broke off of Mars long ago, and not from a captured asteroid.