Headed for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche spacecraft successfully calibrated its cameras by looking homeward.

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The 33rd SpaceX commercial resupply services mission for NASA, scheduled to lift off from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in late August, is heading to the International Space Station ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is the latest in a series of stunning cosmic phenomena that should be visible in August across the United States.

Each of Comet Izumi’s unknown orbits from the Oort Cloud is speculated to take just under a billion years. The comet has, ...

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The availability of oxygen beyond Earth is a crucial factor for human exploration of space. We do need it to breathe after ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover captures striking new details of the planet, including rock samples that could return to Earth in future missions.

A mysterious interstellar comet named 3I/ATLAS is hurtling toward our solar system — and it's unlike anything we've seen ...

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A shocking discovery on the surface of the interstellar object dubbed 3I/ATLAS could confirm that it was artificially ...