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The imagery offers a rare view of the ice giant’s ring system, bright moons and dynamic atmosphere

Four astronauts will fly around the moon in preparation for the first human landings there since 1972

The “absolutely monstrous” cosmic blast is estimated to be a one-in-10,000-year event

JWST has discovered giant mature galaxies that seem to have filled the universe shortly after the big bang, and astronomers are puzzled

The Orion spacecraft passed just 130 kilometers above the lunar surface during a mission-critical engine burn

Divers working on a television documentary were searching for a downed World War II aircraft when they instead discovered the NASA artifact

An organism nicknamed “Conan the Bacterium” may have what it takes to live on Mars

NASA’s EMIT instrument has found more than 50 methane super emitters in its first few months of operation—and that’s not even its main job

September 26 marks an unmissable chance to view the massive planet Jupiter, whose opposition and perigee very rarely coincide

The DART mission to redirect an asteroid could be just the beginning of a robust planetary-defense program

The MICROSCOPE mission tested the weak equivalence principle with free-falling objects in a satellite

Technical glitches and questionable weather forecasts continue to delay liftoff for NASA’s landmark lunar mission

A problem with one of the Space Launch System’s main engines has postponed the test flight until at least September 2

When humans return to the moon, they’ll likely visit one of these 13 regions near the moon’s south pole

The Space Launch System rocket could lift off on its voyage to lunar orbit as early as late August

Webb sees through dust and gas into regions out of reach of optical telescopes such as Hubble, revealing new galaxy views

The announcement comes as NASA and Roscosmos are laying plans to transition to other orbital habitats

The spacecraft will arrive in lunar orbit in mid-November to help prepare for a future moon-orbiting outpost

The impact has slightly degraded one of the observatory’s mirror segments, but NASA says the telescope has sustained no significant damage

Space agency officials promise to deliver geology results from worlds dozens of light-years away

The Starliner team is confident the malfunctions won’t prevent the spacecraft from completing its mission

The uncrewed flight includes a payload of food, provisions and a specialized flight-test dummy

Ground stations are currently tracking 16 fragments associated with the event, which occurred on April 15

The icy nucleus of Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is about 80 miles (129 kilometers) wide