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The daring mission’s first results reveal surprises about the solar wind

The small body beyond Pluto visited by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is now officially known as Arrokoth

Watch while you can—the next transit of the closest planet to the sun will not occur until 2032

Despite a parachute glitch, the spacecraft’s pad-abort system showed it could protect future astronauts

Meet the xEMU space suit—and a new suit for the Orion spacecraft, too

The company’s constellation could eventually consist of 42,000 spacecraft

The new study demonstrates a bizarre quantum effect at never-before-seen scales

At 466 million years ago, the breakup of a large space rock may have led to major changes in our planet’s biodiversity

Against earlier studies estimating an age of just 100 million years, new research suggests the planet’s rings could be as old as the solar system itself

No signals have been received from the lander, but attempts are underway to establish communication

Astronomers have never seen a world quite like HR 5183 b before

Starhopper is passing the test-flight torch to orbital prototypes

Lava tubes on the moon could be crucial sites for human outposts

Thin layers of lightweight aerogel might be the main ingredient for making regions of the Red Planet more Earth-like

Three companies are receiving millions of dollars apiece to ferry payloads to the moon’s surface in 2020 and 2021

Hundreds of previously overlooked Earth-sized planets may await discovery in archives from NASA’s Kepler mission

Layers of ice-like gas hydrates may insulate frigid ocean worlds across the cosmos

The spacecraft could ferry astronauts to the moon’s surface as early as 2024

The mysterious feature wraps almost halfway around the giant moon

The accident is likely to significantly delay the company’s plans for crewed launches

Multiple lines of evidence suggest the gas occasionally surges into the Red Planet’s atmosphere. Could it be a sign of a subsurface biosphere?

For the second year in a row, the White House is seeking to cancel one of the space agency’s top-priority astrophysics projects, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope

Splashdown occurred at 8:45 am Eastern time about 230 miles off the Florida coast

Small stones have impeded progress on landmark efforts to study the Red Planet’s subsurface activity