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After more than 24 hours on orbit, the the private astronaut crew of Axiom-4 has caught up to the International Space Station, docked and been welcomed aboard for their two-week mission.

The last frontier is now an opportunity for finance. Once the playground of state space agencies, the region has turned into a robust environment for private enterprise, ranging from agile satellite-launch ventures to ambitious space-tech platforms. The industry has been warming up for quite some time, but it’s recent developments…

The four astronauts of the private Ax-4 mission to the ISS represent four different countries, so the food they're carrying up has a very international flavor.

TWA 7b is 110 light years away and by far the smallest-mass planet to be observed by direct imagery

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, TWA 7b which is also the lightest exoplanet ever to be directly imaged.

A mysterious and powerful blast of radio waves detected last year, suspected to originate far beyond the Milky Way came from a long-dead NASA spacecraft in Earth's orbit.

The culprit was a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching the Transporter-14 satellite rideshare mission.

The Hubble Space Telescope captures the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 in the constellation Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs).

The last Dragon spacecraft that SpaceX plans to build entered orbit for the first time with "grace." Reaching space on the new capsule, Ax-4 commander Peggy Whitson revealed the spacecraft's name.

Elon Musk's commercial space exploration company SpaceX launched its new Dragon spacecraft on its debut as part of the Ax-4 mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday.

June's new moon leaves the sky dark for skywatchers to see Mercury next to our lunar companion on June 27.