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On Sept. 19, 1996, the Space Shuttle Atlantis rendezvoused with Russia’s Mir space station to deliver supplies and equipment. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

SpaceX’s new BFR spaceship iteration now looks a lot like the vehicle the beloved comic-book character Tintin uses in the 1954 adventure “Explorers on the Moon.” And that’s not entirely a coincidence.

Dozens of ancient ice volcanoes once dotted the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres, a new study finds.

Hayabusa2’s shadow is visible on asteroid Ryugu in new pictures, taken during a dress rehearsal to prepare the spacecraft for deploying a lander in October.

The signal extends over a huge swath of space, an area that’s 2.5 times bigger than the orbit of Pluto.

The first trailer for Marvel Studios’ “Captain Marvel” has landed, and it looks amazing. The new trailer premiered today (Sept. 18) on “Good Morning America.” Take a look!

There’s nothing new under the sun — or around the moon.

Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa has signed an unprecedented deal with SpaceX to be the first private passenger to fly around the moon on a BFR rocket. Here’s how the mission will work.

Tantalizing new evidence has suggested that there may be a salty lake below a glacier on Mars.

Yusaku Maezawa may not be the only billionaire aboard SpaceX’s 2023 lunar fly-around mission. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk didn’t rule out the possibility of joining him.

The Apollo 8 mission took astronauts around the moon for the first time.

The lunar module, called Snoopy, got within 50,000 feet of the moon’s surface.

The Apollo 9 crew had to contend with human illness as they flew the lunar module in space for the first time.

Schrödinger’s cat has a new friend: Schrödinger’s thermometer.

The famed astrophysicist would prefer if you didn’t smoke weed in space, thanks.

Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa has announced the creation of an epic art project called #dearMoon, and his Instagram feed shows his long-standing passion for art and interest in space.

The seventh annual Space & Science Festival at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum kicks off this week, and Space.com will be there to make Alka-Seltzer rockets.

“Star Trek’s” planet Vulcan, ancestral home of Spock and his species, just became a little more real, thanks to a team of exoplanet scientists.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa announced Sept. 17 that he chooses to go to the moon in 2023 — and bring 6-8 artists along for the ride.

On Sept. 29, 2017, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company’s latest Mars-colonization architecture, which centers on a rocket-spaceship combo dubbed the BFR (Big F***ing Rocket). See how it works in images.

A Japanese billionaire and a coterie of artists will become the first private citizens ever to fly beyond low-Earth orbit just five years from now, if all goes according to plan.

Mars explorers could live in an igloo-like structure near the Red Planet’s frigid north pole, to take advantage of the seasonally abundant solar energy in that region, a new study suggests.

Rocket Lab aims to make space much more accessible with its 57-foot-tall (17 meters) small-satellite launcher, the Electron rocket. Space.com discussed the company’s vision with Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck.

The Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico will re-open Monday (Sept. 17). It had been closed for 10 days while authorities conducted a criminal investigation.

The private spaceflight company SpaceX will reveal its first passenger for a trip around the moon on the company’s massive BFR rocket and you can watch it all live online.

The private spaceflight company SpaceX will reveal its first passenger for a trip around the moon on the company’s massive BFR rocket and you can watch it all live online.

On Sept. 29, 2017, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company’s latest Mars-colonization architecture, which centers on a rocket-spaceship combo dubbed the BFR (Big F***ing Rocket). See how it works in images.

Forget packing a towel to explore the universe, as the joke from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” goes. Instead, a new mission aimed at protecting small satellites and landers is more like packing an umbrella.

Two tiny explorers are pushing the bounds of their kind, but if scientists have their way, the two adventurers will soon have plenty of company.

The final launch of the venerable Delta II rocket has left the world a little less blue. That is not to say that the rocket’s retirement hasn’t been met with a tinge of sadness. No, it was not a matter of sentimentality. Rather, it is one of hue.

A Mister Miracle style approach to the Justice League linchpin.

On Sept. 16, 1949, the U.S. launched a V-2 rocket with a monkey named Albert III on board. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

On Sept. 17, 1789, the British astronomer William Herschel discovered Saturn’s “Death Star” moon, Mimas. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

The Sept. 10 space reorganization memo includes specific actions and assigns responsibilities.

Captain Marvel won’t be an origin story.

The new Doctor Who will air simultaneously in both the US and UK this October.

Captain Marvel won’t be an origin story.

The original “Star Trek” series is one of the most popular and beloved sci-fi series of all time. But for years, it was a flop that left William Shatner performing out of the back of his truck.

A $1 billion NASA mission that will use a laser to track changing ice levels on Earth soared into space early Saturday (Sept. 15), launching into a predawn California sky on a mission that also marked the final flight of a record-setting rocket.

On Sept. 15, 2018, the final Delta II rocket launched into space carrying NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite, ending an era for the workhorse rocket. See photos from the historic last launch of the famed United Launch Alliance booster here.

Soon, it will be time to bid a fond adieu to the “evening star,” the planet Venus.

Soon, it will be time to bid a fond adieu to the “evening star,” the planet Venus.

Soon, it will be time to bid a fond adieu to the “evening star,” the planet Venus.

Cassini plunged intentionally into the ringed planet’s thick atmosphere one year ago today (Sept. 15), ending a storied 13-year run through the Saturn system. The probe may be gone, but it’s far from forgotten.

Hulu’s newest space show, “The First,” provides a glimpse into the heartbreaking, bureaucratic and frustrating side of space travel.

On Sept. 15, 1968, the Soviet Union launched tortoises and more on the Zond 5 spacecraft, which looped around the moon and returned to Earth. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

It launched rovers to Mars, sent probes to the moon, comets and asteroids, put astronomical observatories into orbit and deployed the first GPS satellites. And now, after three decades of service, the Delta II rocket is entering history.

Hurricane Florence, the vast storm meteorologists and astronauts alike have been tracking, made landfall this morning (Sept. 14) near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.

In science fairs all over the world, students dream big and work hard, hoping to impress with their creative hypotheses.

“The First,” a bold new science-fiction drama on Hulu starring Sean Penn, is much more science than fiction, according to Charles Elachi, the former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who worked as a science consultant on the show.

On Sept. 14, 1966, NASA’s Gemini 11 mission set an all-time spaceflight altitude record when two astronauts reached an orbit of 850 miles above the Earth. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

“The Predator” is an absolutely wild action film that provides a great theater experience. But does it live up to the original?

SpaceX’s giant BFR rocket has a sleek new look for an audacious private passenger flight around the moon. If an early rendering is anything to go by, the BFR is going to have some wild fins.

SpaceX’s giant BFR rocket has a sleek new look for an audacious private passenger flight around the moon. If an early rendering is anything to go by, the BFR is going to have some wild fins.

After delaying a shipment of crucial cargo to the International Space Station on account of a major typhoon near the spacecraft’s launch site, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has rescheduled the shipment.

Just four days before the Cassini spacecraft’s dramatic dive into Saturn’s atmosphere last year, cameras aboard the spacecraft captured the mission’s last image of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.

Already delayed by almost a week due to a typhoon, the International Space Station’s next cargo delivery has unexpectedly been postponed again.

For the first time, researchers have calculated the impact of climate change on a hurricane before it actually hits land.

A monster storm is poised to hit the Philippines.

The storm’s winds are no longer as strong as they once were, but the rainfall is already approaching ‘catastrophic.’

It’s been more than a week, and a National Solar Observatory (NSO) facility in New Mexico is still closed for an undisclosed “security issue.”

One of the most storied rockets in history is taking its last journey Saturday morning (Sept. 15) in a launch you won’t want to miss.

Hurricane Florence, now a Category 2 storm, is slowly approaching the U.S. coast, and the storm’s massive fury is on full display in video footage taken from the International Space Station.

Ewine van Dishoeck, the 2018 Kavli Prize laureate, discusses her personal and professional journey into the field of astrochemistry.

The first crewed launch of the program proved that the Apollo spacecraft could get astronauts to the moon.

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will mark the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission with a week-long “First Moon Landing Celebration” and with a series of events leading up to the July 2019 commemoration.

A “private passenger” has signed up for a circumlunar flight aboard SpaceX’s BFR rocket-spaceship combo, company representatives announced via Twitter this evening (Sept. 13).

A “private passenger” has signed up for a circumlunar flight aboard SpaceX’s BFR rocket-spaceship combo, company representatives announced via Twitter this evening (Sept. 13).

Hurricane Florence, downgraded to a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of up to 110 mph (175 km/h), is getting closer to the coast of North Carolina.

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen is the class supervisor for the 2017 class of astronaut candidates, who are expected to be the ones eventually exiting low Earth orbit for missions to the moon — and perhaps even to Mars, if NASA predictions of today ho…

Delta rockets have been launching to space for almost six decades now, carrying some hallmark NASA missions into orbit.

This weekend, NASA is planning to launch a spacecraft that will use half a dozen bright-green laser beams to measure seasonal and annual changes to Earth’s icy poles.

A global, liquid-water ocean could exist under range of conditions on Proxima Centauri b, the closest known exoplanet to Earth.

The water sloshing in Earth’s oceans and coursing through its canyons may have been with the planet since it first started taking shape, new research suggests.

NASA’s new ice-monitoring satellite ICESat-2 can watch ice thickness change to within the width of a No. 2 pencil every year. It took a decade to develop the technology to yield such precision, but it will help scientists better predict how melting ice wi

A laser-firing, ice-monitoring NASA spacecraft has been cleared for liftoff.

With the long-awaited release of the latest foray into the “Predator” franchise, we look back at all the movies starring cinema’s favorite space-faring safari hunter.

With calls to set aside more space for nature, what comes next for space exploration and what does our history in space teach us about the wisdom of such an effort?

A remarkable new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a close-up view of some of the most distant galaxies in the universe.

Two weeks after astronauts and cosmonauts repaired an air leak at the International Space Station, investigators are still trying to figure out how the tiny hole got there.

We’re back into the weird science of black holes in this week’s installment of “Ask a Spaceman.” In this episode, astrophysicist and Space.com columnist Paul Sutter explains why a black hole is doomed to die from the moment of its birth.

While Polaris is far from being the brightest star in the sky, finding it is not as hard as it may seem!

The planet-enveloping dust storm on Mars has settled enough for NASA to start a 45-day active-listening period in which the agency hopes to make contact with the rover Opportunity after three months of silence.

NASA’s gigantic, ultrathin balloon, known as the “Big 60,” broke a sustainable-altitude record when it took to the skies last month.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield wowed the world with his guitar-playing and social media skills. Five years later, a new astronaut, David Saint-Jacques, is poised to launch on to the world stage. Can we expect an encore?

A strange pair of space rocks twirling around each other as they orbit the sun has helped scientists pinpoint when our solar system developed its current formation.

On Sept. 12, 1992, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to go to space. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile has a busy observation schedule, but sometimes cloudy or moonlit skies mean a temporary halt to scientific measurements. Then, it grabs images like this.

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile has a busy observation schedule, but sometimes cloudy or moonlit skies mean a temporary halt to scientific measurements. Then, it grabs images like this.

NASA will run its final parachute test for the Orion spacecraft on Sept. 12 as the agency readies Orion for its first uncrewed mission around the moon.

A student who began her master’s degree in May partnered with an international team of researchers to discover a special cosmic neighbor twice the size of Earth.

The leader of the current mission aboard the International Space Station is hitting back against the suggestion that he or one of his crewmates might have caused the orbiting lab’s recent air leak.

As Hurricane Florence makes its way toward the U.S. East Coast, several satellites are monitoring the dangerous storm system with a variety of instruments.

The Spirit rover discovered evidence of the red planet’s history and was a trailblazer for future Mars rovers.

A test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft safely touched down on Earth today (Sept. 12) under three parachutes, completing a crucial test to get the vehicle ready for a journey around the moon and back.

See the latest videos and animated imagery of Hurricane Florence.

Hurricane Florence, on its way across the Atlantic Ocean toward North Carolina, dominates photos and video from the International Space Station, where astronauts are using wide-angle lenses because of how far the storm extends.