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On Sept. 17, 1789, the British astronomer William Herschel discovered Saturn's "Death Star" moon, Mimas. Here's why it mattered. NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, speaking from aboard ...

A US launch of a V-2 rocket explodes, killing its monkey passenger Albert III By Hanneke Weitering Published 16 September 26 On Sept. 16, 1949, the U.S. launched a V-2 rocket with a monkey named ...

Reference See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2026. The discovery of water in dark craters at the moon's poles has sparked a "moon rush" to ...

Space.com's Josh Dinner caught an amazing shot of NASA's Roman Space Telescope crossing the sun on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. Here's how it happened in a Hobby Lobby parking lot. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman ...

On Episode 227 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Michael Okuda, who with wife and others have ...

Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars other than the sun and thus exist outside the solar system. The word "exoplanet" ...