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The first US lunar lander launched in more than five decades has experienced an anomaly preventing it from pointing its solar panels towards the Sun, the company that built the robot said Monday.

NASA on Monday announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away from Earth -- to send a high-definition cat video.

This year, India signed the NASA-led Artemis Accords, which lays down a framework for space cooperation and lunar exploration plans among participating nations. Some experts believe this indicates New Delhi's inclination toward a Western alliance over one led by China-Russia.

A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.

NASA has spotted a small new crater on the Moon that was likely caused by a Russian probe crash landing on the surface around two weeks ago.

NASA's Artemis 3 mission, set to return humans to the Moon in 2025, might not involve a crewed landing after all, an official said Tuesday.

NASA's distant Voyager 2 probe has sent a "heartbeat" signal to Earth after mission control mistakenly cut contact, the US space agency said Tuesday.

Eager scientists and a gleaming lab awaits. Scientists will separate pieces of the rock and dust for study now, while carefully storing away the rest for future generations equipped with better technology -- a practice first started during the Apollo missions to the Moon.

July 2023 will probably be the world's hottest month in "hundreds, if not thousands, of years," top NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt said Thursday.

The 3D visualization makes it seem as though you're flying past the galaxies in space.

As you celebrate the day with barbecues and social gatherings, know about some important NASA milestones that happened on the Fourth of July.

A satellite image from NASA's satellite shows smoke from the Canadian wildfires already over Spain and Portugal.

NASA said it aims to send the "first woman and next man" to the moon by 2024.

NASA shared new "cosmic harmonies" from the James Webb, Spitzer, Chandra and Hubble space telescopes.

An eerie green light is visible near the edge of a massive storm in a citizen scientist-processed image from the Juno spacecraft.

The Curiosity Rover took the photos on April 8. The combined image gives a lovely view of the Martian landscape.

People's names will be stenciled into a microchip that will fly with the Europa Clipper mission, along with a poem written by U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón.

"No one had found planets in this dataset before," study co-author Andrew Vanderburg says.

The volcanic world looks quite intense in the new Juno photos.

After SpaceX, NASA taps Bezos's Blue Origin to build Moon lander

The Da Vinci glow before and April and May New Moons are said to be the best for 2023.