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Earth only has one moon. Next week that won't be true.

Astronomers have discovered that Earth's large, ever-looming moon is about to get company.Beginning on Sunday, the planet will capture an asteroid sailing nearby, drawing...

NASA ventured into the Valley of 10,000 Smokes, a forbidding land

Imposing bears teem in Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve. But few dare enter its Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. In 1912, a volcano...

NASA's flying to an ocean world. Its spacecraft is giant.

A NASA probe, the length of a basketball court, is headed to the tantalizing world Europa. Planetary scientists are confident this moon of Jupiter...

NASA's Mars rovers had a gangbusters summer of rocks

This summer NASA's two car-sized labs exploring Mars each discovered rocks that neither mission had seen before, revealing a more diverse history for the...

Webb telescope is about to home in on these 2 exoplanets....

The James Webb Space Telescope will soon begin a massive study of rocky worlds outside the solar system, specifically to discover if planets orbiting...

As spacecraft zooms to Venus, it peers back at humble Earth...

We're small.The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to slingshot to Venus. The spacecraft, now...

Scientists find powerful window into the extreme reaches of space

There are funhouse mirrors in space.Objects in the universe can be so massive β€” often clusters of galaxies β€” that they warp the cosmos,...

Webb telescope reveals a bridge between 2 galaxies after big collision

Two galaxies are merging in the deep cosmos. And the James Webb Space Telescope just captured a vivid view of the scene.The interacting galaxies,...

NASA rover peers up at space, sees strange Mars moon and...

Robotic Martians can see blue Earth in Mars' sky. The Curiosity rover, a car-sized NASA robot looking to find evidence of past habitability on...

We've reached a record number of humans in space, NASA announces

Crew onboard the Russian Soyuz capsule, a flight to the International Space Station (ISS) that took place on Sept. 11, became record-breaking space residents...

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