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Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, died Tuesday in Houston. He was 90.

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, has died

NASA has issued top tips on how to maximise your chances of spotting the Quadrantids, which are considered one of the best meteor showers of the year

The first meteor shower of 2023 is to take place this week, here's when it will peak.

Quadrantids are blue meteors with fine trains that appear to come from the constellation Bootes, near the Big Dipper.

NEO Surveyor will be able to detect individual asteroid heat signatures, allowing it to isolate potentially dangerous asteroids using this novel technique. With the increased focus on planetary defense, NASA has been interested in the mission, which was initially proposed in 2005, for some time.

The light coming from stars beyond the Milky Way is two to three times brighter than the light from known populations of galaxies – we are even more out there than we thought!

South Korea's first-ever lunar orbiter Danuri has sent black-and-white photos of the Moon's surface and Earth, the national space center said Tuesday. Danuri -- a portmanteau of the Korean words for "Moon" and "enjoy" -- was launched on a SpaceX rocket from the United States in August 2022 and entered…

The red planet will be visible to the naked eye at around 6pm tonight without the assistance of binoculars or telescopes