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It begins on Thursday with the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

This includes a pair of launches from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, the first of which is scheduled for Saturday night.

The craft pierced the corona and will continue drawing closer to the sun.

The station faced a threat from space debris earlier this month after a Russian anti-satellite missile test created more than a thousand pieces of space junk.

The plan is to have it crash into the asteroid in September 2022.

The crew was told to shelter as a cluster of space junk from a Russian anti-satellite missile test was projected to pass close to the station.

Recent findings like this image show a river used to pass through a region of Mars.

The astronauts were at the International Space Station and splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola.

NASA's Juno spacecraft sweeps over Jupiter's Great Red Spot and makes a 3D map of the giant storm. The findings could shed light on gas giant exoplanets in distant solar systems.

Scientists who want to understand what's beyond our solar system have designed an interstellar spacecraft that could go out farther and faster than the famous Voyager probes.

It will take eight years before Lucy is expected to reach the final asteroid formation on her journey.

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule has launched three astronaut missions since last year, but Boeing is still trying to certify its vehicle for human spaceflight.