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On Jan. 20, 1978, the Soviet space program launched the first ever Progress cargo ship on a mission to deliver supplies to the Salyut 6 space station.

The latest aurora forecast for tonight help you make sure you're in the right place at the right time to see the northern lights.

Find out what you can see in the night sky for tonight, from planets and stars to dazzling meteor showers.

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's crust but appear in seemingly impossible places.

For decades, scientists assumed that the expansion of the universe was powered by a new entity, known as the inflaton, but new research suggests that it may have been possible without it.

The mighty telescope is expected to see its "first light" by 2028.

Despite crashing in the Utah desert in 2004, NASA's Genesis mission is still helping scientists study the effects of solar wind.

Follow Space.com's rocket launch blog for the latest on when the next rocket launch will be and how to follow it live.

On Episode 144 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik take a look a pair of private moon missions by Firefly Aerospace and ispace that lifted off this week and so much more.

The Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea created an island in early 2023 that had almost disappeared by the end of 2024, according to Landsate satellite imagery.