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Private lunar landing: How Blue Ghost measured the moon's electric and magnetic fields

The International Space Station and China's Tiangong Space Station will be visible for early risers. Here's how to make a dual sighting.

Both novas will eventually become too dim to see, even under the darkest skies. So catch them while you can!

With the aid of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered an erupting cataclysmic variable star in a rarely seen evolutionary stage.

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The Zefiro-9 was hoisted in preparation for the Vega-C flight VV27.

A Russian Progress cargo spacecraft launched toward the International Space Station this afternoon (July 3), hauling several tons of cargo to the orbiting lab.

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3I/ATLAS is the third-ever interstellar object discovered.

Earth is at its farthest point from the sun on July 3. So why are temperatures so high across the U.S.?

The rocky world will be visible for a brief window after sunset.

"…are we potentially the last generation that will see the night's sky in its entirety?"

The space telescope spied three young stars in the nebula.

A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly splitting the continent and potentially marking the birth of a new ocean, a new study reports.

MethaneSAT, the first satellite made by an environmental nonprofit organization, was designed to monitor some of the world's largest industrial contributors of greenhouse gas emissions. Now, without power, the spacecraft's mission has abruptly ended.

As the sun grew hotter, so did Mars, prompting much of its atmospheric carbon dioxide to rain out and ultimately get locked up in rocks.

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own parent stars by being too clingy.

Space.com sat down recently with retired NASA astronaut Terry Virts to talk about space, politics and his run in Texas for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

Our Red Planet explorers may encounter a peculiar threat.

SpaceX launched 27 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit today (July 2), on the 500th Falcon 9 rocket launch in the company's history.