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NASA’s next Mars spacecraft will soon know its landing site, as scientists meet to debate the relative merits of four final contenders. The mission will investigate whether the Red Planet ever hosted life.

From robots to rockets and toddler-size telescopes, here are Space.com’s picks for the best space and STEM gifts for kids this year.

From stargazing gear to cosmic bling and out-of-this-world toys, here are Space.com’s picks for the coolest space gifts of 2018.

Alien characters allow writers to thematically discuss feelings of ostracization, said “Roswell, New Mexico” writer and show developer Carina Adly MacKenzie during a New York Comic Con 2018 event.

BepiColombo is a planned European-Japanese mission to Mercury. It is set to launch in 2018.

One day after a Soyuz rocket failed just after liftoff, sending its two-man crew on a dramatic abort in midflight, the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said the American and Russian aboard the flight will fly again next year.

In an astronomical first, four gigantic planets have been detected around a very young star, a new study reports.

Moons could possess moons of their own. Kepler-1625b-i, a newfound candidate to be a giant alien moon, may even possess one or more moons that once had habitable surfaces, a new study finds.

Stephen Hawking’s final paper provides a possible way to measure how black holes store information

Dark energy may be decreasing, which puts a crimp in the notion that the universe will expand forever.

A wealth of exciting news about “Star Trek: Discovery” came out of this year’s New York Comic Con, so strap in for our breakdown of the details of Season 2.

On Oct. 16, 1975, NASA launched the first operational GOES satellite! See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series!

The show opens precisely when you would expect it to, on July 16, 1969, as a rocket carrying three American men lifts off into history.

Rocket Lab just unveiled a huge new facility in New Zealand designed to enable fast mass production of the company’s Electron booster. And William Shatner was on hand to lend some more excitement to the proceedings.