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Mercury will join the evening sky of April after sunset starting on April 16. Here's how to see it.

The wave likely scoured the surface of the weakly magnetic planet.

The Full Pink Moon of 2022 will rise tonight amid Easter, Passover and Ramadan.

A Shenzhou spacecraft carrying three astronauts landed safely in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region today (April 15), wrapping up the Shenzhou 13 mission.

The next attempt to fuel Artemis 1's huge Space Launch System rocket could come as early as Thursday (April 21).

SpaceX's Crew-4 astronaut mission to the International Space Station is 'go' for launch next weekend.

After months living and working in space, NASA's SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts are nearing the end of their mission and ready to come home.

China's first astronaut crew to spend a record-setting six months aboard the country's new space station returns to Earth tonight and you can watch it live online.

Amateur astronomer Alexander Krivenyshev snapped a gorgeous shot this morning (April 15) of Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn shining over Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Finding alien worlds in distant solar systems is a delicate task.

A serene new NASA photo shows the agency's Artemis 1 moon rocket as the International Space Station flies overhead during a critical test.

Three savings of over $100 on top-quality telescopes are available on Adorama.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured an image of the aptly named Butterfly Nebula, also known as Westerhout 40 (W40).

The private Ax-1 astronauts on the International Space Station told students they'd love to go to the moon after their historic trip

In 2006, and after much debate, the International Astronomical Union came up with a new definition for a planet. And for the first time, the term "dwarf planet" was used.

Eytan Stibbe, a private astronaut and the second Israeli to ever reach space, prepares to celebrate Passover in orbit.

A tug-of-war between neighboring stars led to the formation of two strange types of red giant star, as seen in the eyes of a lost telescope.

Space.com caught up recently with Uri Oron, head of the Israel Space Agency, to discuss the private Ax-1 astronaut mission, New Space and Israel's big ambitions in the final frontier.

Today (April 14), NASA called off the latest attempt to fuel up Artemis 1's huge Space Launch System rocket, a crucial part of the mission's pre-launch "wet dress rehearsal."

A newly created isotope of the silvery metal lutetium has a strange squashed nucleus and a half-life of just a few hundred nanoseconds.

Frost extends across the surface of a southern crater on Mars in a new photo of the Red Planet.