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NASA is delaying plans to return astronauts to the Moon for the first time in half a century, announcing its call Tuesday as a much-hyped private U.S. lunar lander mission looked set to fail.

We have liftoff. The first U.S. lunar lander in over half a century left the earth’s grasp early Monday morning and set a course towards the moon.

Cape Canaveral is seeing final preparations put in place ahead of the planned launch Monday of a lander destined for the moon, a first in more than half a century since the Apollo project made history.

The largest solar flare in years occurred Thursday, temporarily knocking out radio communications on Earth.

Parts of the U.S. will see a “rare” solar eclipse event known as the “Ring of Fire” on Saturday, prompting preparation from California’s electric grid to mitigate solar power loss.

The China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) said Wednesday that it plans to double the size of China’s Tiangong space station.

Brian May took time from his upcoming concert tour to gush about NASA’s success in returning the first-ever asteroid sample from space.

NASA has published its first-ever study into hundreds of alleged UFO sightings in recent decades, and has concluded that there is “no reason” to believe any of them are aliens.

Four astronauts have arrived home to planet Earth after working for six months at the international space station.

NASA believes a moon crater 33 feet in diameter, found near where Russia’s Luna-25 intended to land, was caused by the failed landing.

Stargazers, get your binoculars and telescopes ready: A super blue moon will brighten the night sky on Wednesday, August 30th.

The race between India and Russia to make the first landing near the Moon’s south pole took a dramatic turn on Sunday as Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft tumbled into an uncontrolled orbit and slammed into the lunar surface.

You may or may not have noticed, but according to NASA chief scientist and senior climate adviser Kate Calvin, airplane rides are more turbulent now than ever.

Four people were locked inside a Mars simulation on Sunday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and will remain there for over a year.

On June 23, members of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee added a new giveaway to Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company, to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Agreement (NDAA), despite opposition by the U.S. Air Force.

An asteroid the size of a three-story building will pass over the Earth’s atmosphere a little more than halfway between our planet and the moon on Sunday.

NASA’s dedicated task force charged with looking into UFO sightings over the United States will meet the public on Wednesday in an exercise that will also see it taking questions.

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, designed to ferry astronauts to the moon, has been reportedly found by an audit to be $6 billion over budget and six years behind its original schedule.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its Starship rocket to space on Thursday, which suffered a mid-flight failure a few minutes into its flight.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has delayed the first orbital launch of its Starship rocket scheduled for today and is planning a new launch on Wednesday. The company announced the mission was scrubbed just 15 minutes before launch due to a “pressurization issue.”

The new director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center chose to swear her oath of office not on the Bible but on a copy of Carl Sagan’s 1994 Pale Blue Dot.

The Biden administration canceled the travel authorization of a government scientist on Tuesday who was to have traveled to Israel to participate in a conference in Israel, the latest sign of a creeping U.S. boycott.

The Biden administration recently changed rocket procurement rules for Phase 3 of the National Security Space Launch System — the program the United States government uses to launch payloads into space — in a way that may provide significant financial benefits to Blue Origin and its founder, Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos.

Republicans on the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee blasted the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for its “highly politicized” recent climate rule that could impact the agency’s mission.

Neighbors heard a boom and felt the ground shake on Wednesday when a meteor burst through the atmosphere near McAllen, Texas.

Ladies and gentlemen, please make sure your seat backs and tray tables are in their full upright position and your seatbelt is fastened. Today is the day Boeing is saying farewell to an icon: It’s delivering its final 747 jumbo jet and its now ready for one last take off.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discovered an exoplanet that is almost the same size as Earth at a 99 percent diameter, the agency announced Tuesday.

A green comet with a faint ion tail that was initially spotted in March will soon show itself in Earth’s sky.

Walter Cunningham, who was the last surviving astronaut of the Apollo 7 mission, died Tuesday morning at the age of 90, NASA announced.

A “Red’ Moon,” caused by a lunar eclipse and also called a “Blood Moon,” is rising on Election Day, Tuesday, November 8.

President Joe Biden joked with cancer survivors Monday, urging them not to jump from a balcony above him as he spoke at the JFK library in Boston.

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin, saw its latest rocket launch fail during liftoff this Monday. No humans were aboard the capsule, which separated from the rocket and parachuted to Earth after the mission was aborted. The rocket flew out of control after what the company called an “anomaly.”

NASA has delayed the launch of the Artemis I after engineers discovered another fuel leak approximately three hours away from the beginning of its launch window. 

Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday told reporters before the NASA rocket launch was scrubbed due to engine problems that the United States space program is meant to benefit “all mankind and womankind.”

NASA’s Artemis I rocket launch, which was supposed to embark on a one-month journey circling the moon’s orbit, is not taking off Monday because of an engine bleed.

NASA’s Artemis I missions, the first of which was postponed on Monday, will cost billions of dollars, NASA Inspector General Paul Martin told lawmakers earlier this year.