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A giant leap for the U.K. space sector is set to take place tonight as Virgin Orbit readies for its first-ever launch from Britain, and from Europe.

There's an awkward, irksome problem with our understanding of nature's laws that physicists have been trying to explain for decades.

A robotic SpaceX cargo craft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station Monday afternoon (Jan. 9), and you can watch the action live.

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), which could be visible with the naked eye, will pass the sun on Thursday (Jan. 12) before approaching the Earth for the first time since the last ice age.

Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF is already putting on a show as it makes its way through our solar system.

SpaceX plans to launch 40 more internet satellites for the communications company OneWeb on Sunday night (Jan. 8), and you can watch the action live.

On a dark night, away from the city lights, you can see the stars in the same way as your ancestors did centuries ago.

Heading to Schroter's Valley, the lunar south pole and Reiner Gamma, Intuitive Machines' trio of missions are part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Delivery Services program.

Living quarters of NASA's moon orbiting Gateway station will be so tiny that astronauts will not be able to stand upright inside, an architect involved in the station's design said.

Using the Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers conducted the most in-depth study of planet-killing stars ever.

Space.com caught up with Dr. Z recently to discuss his favorite missions, the advice he'd give to his successors and the incredible growth of the space community over the past few years.

Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF, just discovered in March 2022, will be making its closest approaches to both Earth and the sun in the coming weeks.

The first full moon of 2023, January's Wolf Moon, led to some gorgeous imagery around the world.

Space mining has matured to the point where there are dozens of startup companies planning to begin harvesting valuable resources from space.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a dazzling view of an open cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud that is slowly dissolving into the dwarf galaxy around it.

A defunct NASA satellite is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere on Sunday evening (Jan. 8), but there's little to fear from the 5,400-pound hunk of space junk.

More rain is on its way to the already drenched western U.S. as forecasters observe two new "atmospheric rivers" form above the Pacific Ocean.

Virgin Orbit's "Start Me Up" mission is scheduled to lift off Monday (Jan. 9) from Spaceport Cornwall in England on the first-ever orbital launch from the United Kingdom.

Galaxies like our Milky Way sprouted up earlier than scientists expected as revealed by new James Webb Space Telescope images.

From the nearby moon to distant Triton, planetary scientists have a plethora of ideas for how to explore our solar system.

To share a view of comet C/2022 E3 ZTF at perihelion with anyone interested, the Virtual Telescope Project is hosting a free livestream starting at 11:00 p.m. EST (0400 GMT) on Jan. 12.