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Newly emerged sunspot fires off X-class and an M-class solar flares in relatively quick succession. Watch the striking video and read about the possible effects here.

For National Space Day, SpaceKids Global announces a competition to send eight kids to Florida for an adventure at Blue Origin and NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

It may have fewer pixels than the screen of a 1989 Game Boy, but the Resolve device on the XRISM space telescope will broaden our view of the cosmos.

Stay up-to-date with the latest news on the upcoming solar eclipses, including the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024.

A Boeing CV2 Cargo Air Vehicle dressed like a "Star Wars" X-wing fighter has been donated to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

Boeing's Starliner is finally ready to fly astronauts, after several years of delay. The capsule's designers put the extra time to good use, NASA and Boeing representatives say.

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Thursday (May 2), on the second half of a planned spaceflight doubleheader.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft serendipitously found a small moonlet orbiting the mission's asteroid target Dinkinesh. Scientists named it Selam, and have now learned that Selam is a cosmic toddler.

Scientists suggest lunar astronauts can stay fit by running sideways within a Wheel of Death.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two Maxar Earth-observation satellites today (May 2). It was the record-tying 20th mission for this rocket's first stage.