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You can watch a big asteroid make a safe flyby of Earth today (March 11) from any spot with good internet access.

The first teaser trailer for the next live-action "Star Trek" spinoff, "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," has beamed in from Paramount Plus.

Albert Einstein saw beyond human tribalism to an enlightened realm of tolerance. We can too: He left us clear directions for how to do it.

A new image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) captures a stunning view of the Cartwheel galaxy following a recent stellar explosion.

Some companies make money out of 'selling stars', or rather selling opportunities to name them, perhaps as a gift to a loved one. But is it really worth the money?

The planets in our solar system come in two forms: Some are rocky, and some are gaseous. But all of the moons in our solar system are rocky, even the ones that orbit gas giants. So why aren't some moons in the solar system made of gas? And are there gaseous moons anywhere in the universe?

New satellite views from space show the Russian military moving towards Kyiv, Ukraine on Friday (March 11).

On this episode of This Week in Space, we'll tell you everything you need to know to fly your own rockets.

The Borg and Q in the same season?! It's almost as if the showrunner said, "OK, what were the best bits of TNG?"

NASA celebrates the famous mathematical ratio each year on March 14 (3/14), which is meant to represent the 3.14 constant.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a laser-like jet that represents a "tantrum" being thrown by an infant star.

A new competition with HeroX asks for innovative ways to analyze data gathered on the Red Planet.

Ingenuity traveled 1,214 feet (370 meters) and stayed aloft for 129 seconds on its latest sortie.

Nearly 50 years after Apollo 17 astronauts collected rocks from the lunar surface, NASA is finally tapping their samples.

For the first time, a powerful NASA telescope aboard the International Space Station observed merging "hot spots" on a weird star, known as a magnetar.

NASA has emphasized that the ISS partnership is continuing, despite Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin's inflammatory tweets.

It started with the steam engine but applies to the universe too!

Everybody's favorite giant rocket hauler is back in action.

Venus will meet up with Mars in the very early morning sky on Saturday (March 12). Here’s how you can catch the planetary duo.

SpaceX has been building out Ukrainian capability for weeks amid an invasion by Russia.

While planets and some moons are almost perfectly spherical, the smaller bits of the solar system, such as asteroids and comets, come in all different shapes. But why is that?