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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is powering on toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids after making a successful flyby of another asteroid called Dinkinesh.

Mining an asteroid probably won't look exactly like mining does on Earth, but some principles will stay the same. posteriori/iStock via Getty ImagesThe cars, cellphones, computers and televisions that people in the U.S. use every day require metals like copper, cobalt and platinum to build. Demand from the electronics industry for these metals is only rising, and companies are constantly searching for new places on Earth to mine them. Scientists estimate that lots of these metals exist thou...

To help you get in the mood for Halloween, NASA has released a spooky image from deep space showing what it describes as a ghostly cosmic hand.

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected heavy elements being created in a star merger for the first time.

A recent image taken by the Gemini South observatory shows the chaotic result of a merger between two spiral galaxies one billion years ago.

Researchers have used data from the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover a new feature of Jupiter's dramatic and turbulent atmosphere.

A publicly available digital atlas of nearby galaxies was recently updated and now includes almost 400,000 galaxies located within our cosmic neighborhood.

The Orionid meteor shower will peak tonight, Saturday October 21. Here's how to watch.

NASA has shared a remarkable image of Saturday's annular solar eclipse, captured by a satellite a million miles from Earth.

NASA has successfully launched its Psyche spacecraft on a mission to visit a metal asteroid.