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Earth's moon is due for a human-made impact this August courtesy of a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage.

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The Strait of Hormuz has reopened, for now, and Middle Eastern countries that shut off their oil wells during the war (the ...

The Moon has inspired myths, guided sailors, and lit up our nights for thousands of years. But during one of the most intense ...

Mars' innermost moon, Phobos, has long puzzled planetary scientists, who have continually debated whether it's a captured asteroid or formed from debris after a giant impactor struck the Martian ...

In this space news roundup, Berly McCoy and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about tiny autonomous "transformers" that ...

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Millions of light-years away, millions of years ago, a star exploded. In this violent process, it ejected incredible amounts ...

Two weeks ago, Blue Origin, the space pioneer established and run by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, was on cloud nine. NASA had just announced that, as part of its Project Artemis program to return ...