The conical capsule landed with the assistance of a parachute and was quickly recovered. The spacecraft carried a ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander, named Athena, snapped some amazing shots of its home planet shortly after launching atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Feb. 26.

A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pileup—causing ripple effects across everything from ...

This 2023 astronaut photo shows a series of slowly moving "star dunes" in the Erg Chebbi region of Morocco. Most of these ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows a large plume of discolored water rising from the undersea Kavachi volcano, during an eruption ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

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The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, became the first commercial spacecraft to image an eclipse from the moon.

SpaceX Crew-10 mission successfully docked at the International Space Station, setting the stage to rescue two stranded NASA ...