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The private spaceflight company Rocket Lab called off the commercial launch debut of Electron rocket in New Zealand early Saturday (June 23) due to an issue with a tracking dish.

On Saturday evening, should local weather conditions permit, you’ll be able to enjoy a view of a waxing gibbous moon hovering near the “king of the planets,” Jupiter.

Bizarre rock formation known as Medusae Fossae weren’t created by UFOs crash-landing, but rather by massive volcanism on the Red Planet.

The universe’s missing baryons have been found, and they’re floating between the stars in the form of superhot oxygen.

On June 23, 1949, the XS-1 space plane flew for the 117th time. The XS-1, later called the Bell X-1, was a piloted, rocket engine-powered plane that could fly faster than the speed of sound. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series.

Earth moves at a fantastic rate of speed on its axis, around the sun and across the universe.

A report says Lucasfilm is scuttling plans for its Star Wars “anthology” stories.

Google honored the legacy of famed science fiction author Octavia E. Butler with her own Google Doodle today (June 22), which would have been the writer’s 71st birthday.

The first spacecraft to demonstrate active space debris-removal technologies — such as a harpoon, a net and a drag sail — in orbit has been released from the International Space Station to commence its mission.

Overnight US President Donald Trump announced the establishment of a “Space Force” as a separate force of the US military.

On June 22, 2000, NASA announced possible evidence of present-day liquid water on Mars. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series.

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps still doesn’t know why she was removed from her first assignment to go to space.

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps still doesn’t know why she was removed from her first assignment to go to space.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will turn to his own policy advisers for options that he could present to the president.

An advisory group dubbed the “think tank” for the National Space Council formally kicked off its work June 19 with a broad but vague mandate to study space policy issues.

Mars continues to approach Earth as the Red Planet grows steadily brighter, but on June 28, it will halt its normal eastward motion among the stars and turn back toward the west — a strange change in its nightly wandering that befuddled ancient stargaz…

The U.S. spaceflight startup Rocket Lab will attempt the first commercial launch of its new Electron rocket today (June 22), and you can watch the liftoff live online.

Is the newest droid in the “Star Wars” universe the future of modern robotics?

Astronauts in space have been tracking Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano eruption since May, but they’ve never revealed a view quite like this. Here’s what Kilauea’s lava looks like from space.

A lovely cityscape view captured from a rooftop on Amoreiras Towers in Lisbon, Portugal, shows the last “Blue Moon” of 2018 rising above the city on March 31.

The summer solstice marks the official start of summer. It brings the longest day and shortest night of the year for the 88 percent of Earth’s people who live in the Northern Hemisphere.

A massive dust storm on Mars that covered one-fourth of planet just a week ago has grown into a global weather event, NASA officials said Wednesday (June 20).

A massive dust storm on Mars that covered one-fourth of the planet just a week ago has grown into a global weather event, NASA officials said Wednesday (June 20).

A massive dust storm on Mars that covered one-fourth of the planet just a week ago has grown into a global weather event, NASA officials said Wednesday (June 20).

On June 21, 2004, the first privately funded human spaceflight, launched on SpaceShipOne. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series.

China has lowered the orbit of its Tiangong-2 space lab, likely in preparation for deorbiting the orbital facility and thus averting a similar scenario to the uncontrolled re-entry of Tiangong-1 earlier this year.

On June 18, 1983, 35 years ago, Sally Ride became the first American woman to launch into space, riding the Space Shuttle STS-7 flight with four other crew members.

A new study validates Einstein’s theory of general relativity in a distant galaxy for the first time.

A moon rock gifted to Cambodia by the U.S. amidst the Vietnam War has been found and put on display after being all but lost to time and strife.

Soyuz is a type of spacecraft that Russia — and previously, the Soviet Union — has used to launch cosmonauts and astronauts into space for decades.

Before Sally Ride left her personal stamp on space history, the astronaut found a passion for collecting space-topical stamps. The first American woman to fly into space, Ride was honored with a United States postage stamp of her own.

Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems brings together decades of work by pervious companies in the aerospace industry.

NASA has a plan to protect the Earth from death by asteroid, and the space agency will unveil it to the world today (June 20). But don’t panic yet, NASA says there’s no known asteroid threat right now.

NASA has a plan to protect the Earth from death by asteroid, and the space agency will unveil it to the world today (June 20). But don’t panic yet; NASA says there’s no known asteroid threat right now.

On June 20, 1983, the crew of the space shuttle Challenger – including America’s first space woman Sally Ride — deployed an Indonesian communications satellite called Palapa-B1 into orbit. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series.

In a meeting of the National Space Council yesterday (June 18), President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to get cracking on building a sixth branch of the U.S. military called the Space Force. We have one. It’s called the Air Force.

President Donald Trump’s call this week that to create a sixth branch of the U.S. military — which he called the “Space Force” — has reopened a wider debate on the military’s role in space.

With government leaders and space organizations aiming to bring humans back to the moon, how do astronauts train to work on the lunar surface? A really, really deep pool.

A brilliant fireball brought some out-of-this-world fireworks to a Foo Fighters concert in the Netherlands on Saturday (June 16).

NASA astronaut Drew Feustel called the Viking Orion cruise ship Saturday (June 16). This is the first time that an International Space Station crewmember has contacted a nonmilitary vessel.

NASA has updated its plans to deflect potentially hazardous Earth-bound asteroids — and none of them involve Bruce Willis.

If a military Space Force like the one proposed by President Donald Trump becomes a reality, odds are, it would play a role in defending Earth from an incoming asteroid.

As Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft approaches the asteroid Ryugu, the probe has grabbed its best photos yet of the rocky body — and they’ll only get better.

Here are the best sci-fi TV shows you can stream on Netflix right now.

A small space rock crashed into Mars recently, and NASA has captured an amazing view of its crater grave site, as well as the trail from an avalanche triggered by the impact.

On the dwarf planet Ceres, organic molecules are more abundant than scientists originally suspected.

NASA’s new Chief Scientist, Dr Jim Green, talks to Bruce Banerdt, who is the lead scientist on the latest mission to Mars: InSight.

A former NASA astronaut used an appearance at a National Space Council meeting June 18 to argue that a key element of NASA’s plans to return humans to the moon should be reconsidered.

On June 19, 1963, two Soviet spacecraft named Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 returned to Earth, ending a historic joint mission. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series.

In remarks kicking off a meeting of the National Space Council, Trump pointedly directed the Pentagon to create a Space Force as a “separate but equal” branch of the U.S. military.

The echoes of colliding wormholes would look different than the signal from merging black holes.

Boldly going where there’s more than meets the eye.

“Star Trek: Discovery” showrunner Alex Kurtzman signed a five-year, $25 million deal to expand the CBS “Star Trek” franchise for television, according to a report in Variety. That means more Trek TV shows are coming.

The history behind the discovery is a fascinating tale with twist and turns that would make Agatha Christie’s head spin.

A new study suggests that rapid cooling within the Earth’s mantle through plate tectonics played a major role in the development of the first life forms, which in turn led to the oxygenation of the Earth’s atmosphere.

It’s the fastest, and smartest, supercomputer.

NASA and other organizations do regular scans of the sky to catalog any small bodies that are at risk of crashing into our planet.

CubeSats are miniature satellites that are commonly used in low Earth orbit for applications such as remote sensing or communications.

President Trump will sign a new space policy directive June 18 addressing space traffic management issues.

On June 18, 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride became America’s first woman in space after she and four colleagues blasted off on the space shuttle Challenger for the STS-7 mission. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series.

Sally Ride — the United States’ first woman in space — has inspired countless people, as she lived a life committed to science, education and inclusion.

The early Earth may have been more temperate than previously thought, suggesting that the window for life to get a foothold on rocky planets around the galaxy could be quite large.

SpaceX is targeting June 29 as the launch date for its next cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station.

A new startup called Aevum aims to launch satellites to Earth orbit every 3 hours using rockets carried on a fully autonomous unmanned airplane.

The glory of the iconic Nobel Prize accolade is the dream of many scientists. Author and astrophysicist Brian Keating spoke about the ups and downs along his journey, and lessons learned.

Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity is a monumental achievement of human ingenuity, creativity and perseverance — to say the least.

For years, scientists have been unable to agree on the length of a day on Venus, but one new study might put an end to this confusion.

The two-century-old mystery of what causes a star to dim for two years out of every 27 may be close to being solved, thanks to the ESA’s Gaia spacecraft.

President Donald Trump directed officials Monday (June 18) to establish a military Space Force before signing a new U.S. policy for space traffic control.

President Donald Trump directed officials Monday (June 18) to establish a military Space Force before signing a new U.S. policy for space traffic control.

On June 17, 1985, Space Shuttle Discovery launched on NASA’s STS-51-G mission, carrying payload specialist Sultan Salman Abdulaziz Al-Saud, who became the first Arab and first Muslim in space.See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series.

With NASA finding more evidence for life on Mars, Newsarama’s looking at 10 characters who hail from our nearest neighboring planet.

As dads around the world celebrate Father’s Day today (June 17), four far-out fathers will spend the holiday floating 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the Earth at the International Space Station.

Axial tilt and tidal locking also matter in a planet’s habitability.

A company that aims to change the way small satellites get to orbit has just secured $40 million to continue developing its technology.

On June 16, 1963, cosmonaut Valentina Nikolayeva Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

Alexander Gerst, a German astronaut for the European Space Agency, is about to sweat for science.

The world’s first flying, autonomous, artificially intelligent (AI) astronaut assistant will soon get to work in space.

NASA doesn’t expect to make decisions on how it will carry out a Mars sample return effort until late next year despite recent discoveries that have offered additional evidence that the planet was once, and may still be, habitable.

A soccer ball named for a satellite and sent into Earth orbit was used to kick off the FIFA World Cup.

It sounds like something out of a comic book: A normal man gets a special suit and vows to use his newfound powers for good. But Tim Dodd isn’t a superhero. He’s the Everyday Astronaut.

Russia’s space agency is developing a novel method for dealing with space junk: vaporizing it with lasers.

The physicist’s remains will be interred at Westminster Abbey between those of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. Meanwhile, his voice will stream through space.

Space tourists could soon celebrate their arrival in the final frontier with a few glasses of bubbly.

Cosmic rockers Coheed and Cambria are well-known for their out-of-this-world concept records, but they came back down to Earth for their last album, “Color Before the Sun” — except for one big leap to Mars.

On June 15, 2011, Iran launched the imaging satellite Rasad-1 into orbit around Earth. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

Students are building and launching Alka-Seltzer rockets in an attempt to break a Guinness World Record … again.

An international team of scientists has found that a strange type of bacteria can turn light into fuel in incredibly dim environments.

The relay satellite that will facilitate China’s Chang’e-4 lunar far side landing mission late in 2018 has entered its intended halo orbit around Earth-Moon Lagrange point 2.

Saturn has a ravioli moon, so why shouldn’t there be a dumpling asteroid?

Astronaut Peggy Whitson, who has spent more time in space than any other American, is retiring from NASA effective today (June 15), agency officials announced.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine used a recent speech to lay out not just the recent space policy changes that directly affect NASA activities but other administration efforts that focus more on commercial space.

Combining Nordic culture and space travel, Viking Cruises officially welcomed its fifth ocean ship, Viking Orion — named after the prominent constellation and in honor of retired astronaut Anna Fisher.