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Read live updates of William Shatner's launch into space on Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital spacecraft on Oct. 12, 2021.

The James Webb Telescope has arrived in French Guiana today aboard the MN Colibri cargo ship after a 1,500-mile (2,400 kilometers) voyage from California.

For more than 30 years, Roland Miller has used photography to bring new light to the space program. Now, Miller is preparing to release his third collection, this one focused on the winged orbiters.

"You can't sell it," says William Shatner.

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On Oct. 12, 1964, the Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1, a 24-hour crewed mission that achieved several "firsts" for human spaceflight. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space series.

Satellites have observed the intensifying eruption on the Spain-owned island of La Palma over the weekend as new streams of lava spilled out of the Cumbre Vieja volcano after its crater collapsed.

NASA is getting ready to launch a new science spacecraft Saturday (Oct. 16) to study asteroids near Jupiter, and you can watch mission coverage live all week.

With the best binoculars you can spend your days observing wildlife, and your evenings gazing at the night sky

"Star Trek: Prodigy," Paramount+'s new animated Trek show, wowed the New York Comic Con crowed with its first full-length episode.

The remains of a V2 rocket fired by Nazi Germany at London during World War II have been unearthed in a field in the southeast of England, where it crashed and exploded before reaching its target.

The new satellite is the first designed and built by the Australian Research Council Training Centre for Cubesats, UAVs, and their Applications (or CUAVA for short).

People have long claimed they can hear the northern lights, saying the sounds include eerie whizzing, crackling and buzzing. Is it just an auditory illusion?

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Blue Origin has pushed the next launch of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle, which will carry Shatner and three other people, from Tuesday (Oct. 12) to Wednesday (Oct. 13) due to weather concerns.

NASA's next asteroid-bound mission to explore the earliest days of our solar system is nearly ready to launch.

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Klaus Hasselmann helped to shape a ground-breaking Earth-observation space mission that paved the way for the modern study of our planet's environment.

The BepiColombo spacecraft – a joint project by the European and Japanese space agencies – swung by its destination planet Mercury in the early hours of Oct. 2.