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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos leads Blue Origin, a commercial aerospace firm that hopes to send people on suborbital and orbital space trips.

How Solar Eclipses Work: When the moon covers up the sun, skywatchers delight in the opportunity to see a rare spectacle.

A planet only 20 million years old and still hot from its creation has been photographed in a solar system 96 light-years from Earth.

Scientists have released new information about comet 67p and what the Philae lander discovered there.

Astronomers have announced the discovery of planet Kepler-452b, orbiting a star very much like the sun but older and hotter.

Hardware developed for the race to the moon was used to foster collaboration between the two countries.

By studying data from the Kepler probe, scientists have found a planet about the size of Mars, about 200 light-years away from Earth.

A permanent cloud of dust has been found hovering around the moon, caused by the impacts of tiny particles from deep space.

Paving the way for Apollo's missions to the moon, the Gemini program provided much-needed experience for astronauts in space.

When Alexei Leonov stepped out of his Voskhod 2 capsule on March 18, 1965, he became the first spacewalker ever.