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Vincent Ledvina was as excited as the particles in the atmosphere over his head when a well-timed solar eruption triggered a night of auroral splendor on Valentine's Day.

The comet C/2022 A2 (Pan-STARRS) will reach perihelion, or the closest point to the sun in its orbit, on Sunday, Feb. 18. The comet will be visible from Earth at dawn and dusk.

Seeds sent along with a Chinese astronaut mission have been returned to Pakistan following a six-month-long stay aboard the Tiangong space station.

The moon-landing company went public on the Nasdaq on Wednesday (Feb. 15) amid a renewed focus by NASA to bring humans and robots to the lunar surface.

"Star Trek: Picard" Season 3 contains all manner of Trekkie throwbacks, Easter eggs and references to The Next Generation.

Russia has delayed the launch of a replacement Soyuz to the International Space Station until March, citing the need to look into a leaky Progress freighter.

Unlike 'Top Gun', real-life fighter pilots are careful thinkers in the air. Learning how their brains change could assist astronauts with critical mission decisions, a new study says.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is the next major step in astronomy and will help unlock the secrets of the universe's expansion and dark energy.

The Elegoo Neptune 3 Plus ticks all the boxes when it comes to FDM 3D printers.

Earth-observation satellites continue to assess the vast damage in Turkey and Syria caused by the devastating series of earthquakes that struck on Feb. 6.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently snapped a photo of the Three Forks sample depot, which contains 10 samples for possible future return to Earth.

A mass spectrometer called the Orbitrap has been scaled down to fit on astrobiology missions to planets and moons of the solar system.

The return of the Lego Star Wars AT-TE Walker has been at the top of many a fan's wish list for years, and Lego has delivered the best-looking rendition yet

China's astronauts are working up a sweat in orbit with a variety of exercise machines designed to keep them fit and fight the loss of bone density that comes with living in microgravity.

On Feb. 15, 2003, a meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, showing why we need better methods of detecting and tracking near-Earth asteroids.

Virgin Orbit's first-ever launch from the United Kingdom was apparently doomed by a fuel filter that got knocked out of place.

"Star Trek Annual 2023" from IDW Publishing will arrive in May and Space.com has an exclusive look at the four main covers.

A sizable asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth in four centuries on Wednesday evening (Feb. 15), but there's nothing to fear.

A new technique to measure starspots could help test stellar magnetism theories and improve our understanding of habitable zones.

South Korea's first moon mission is now fully operational and unveiling new views of the Earth and moon from lunar orbit.

The Hubble Space Telescope recently observed mysterious features known as spokes on Saturn's rings linked to the planet's fall equinox, which last occurred in 2009.