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New time-lapse images of the beautiful Butterfly Nebula come closer to explaining its spectacular strangeness.

"Star Wars: The Bad Batch" Season 2 hits Disney+ with a new year of galactic mayhem.

You can help NASA discover new planets using your personal telescope or even just your smartphone.

With the James Webb Space Telescope safely at work, a leading scientist offers glimpses of what could come next.

When Miss USA R'Bonney Gabriel took the stage in the Miss Universe 2023 National Costume Show this week, she wore the moon, literally.

The face of the moon will be half-illuminated once again on Saturday (Jan. 14) as the moon enters its last quarter phase heading to the next new moon and the start of the next lunar cycle.

Stratolaunch's giant Roc airplane carried a prototype of the company's planned Talon hypersonic vehicle aloft for the second time on Friday (Jan. 13).

SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will be back in action on Saturday (Jan. 14), and you can watch the liftoff live.

2022 was among Earth's 10 warmest years on record despite cooling La Niña conditions, and rising greenhouse gas concentrations hint that the worst is yet to come.

Space.com caught up with Tim Dodd in an exclusive interview to discuss his 'Everyday Astronaut' status and how he's preparing himself for his citizen voyage to the moon and back.

Relive Vader's biggest battles in Marvel Comics' "Star Wars: Darth Vader - Black, White & Red" anthology coming in April 2023.

A distant black hole has a real sweet tooth, stretching a star that ventured too close to it into a stellar taffy and a doughnut the size of the solar system before devouring it.

The final project, which will be 1,000 times more powerful, will be used to help spot potentially hazardous objects flying toward Earth.

As solar activity ramps up, two giant active regions of the sun are moving to face Earth, bringing with them an increased possibility of violent space weather.

A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Thursday (Jan. 12), carrying the APStar 6E satellite to orbit.

We're starting to believe that The Matrix Resurrections could be turned into an outstanding video game, and here's why.

The first prequel-era Ultimate Collector Series set in over a decade is a fine addition to Lego Star Wars’ premium range of adult-targeted models.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped a photo recently of its robotic cousin Ingenuity as the tiny helicopter rested on a Red Planet sand dune.

Scientists have discovered a wealth of organic compounds within a Martian meteorite, which could help researchers discover if Mars could have hosted life.

NASA's latest flagship telescope is still in its first year of science, but the agency isn't only hard at work building its successor — it's starting to plan that next mission's successor as well.

Astronomers involved with the discovery of comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) are just as excited about its discovery as the public is.