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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is making its closest approach to Earth, and you can watch it pass by without even stepping outside, thanks to a free livestream.

Intergalactic gas clouds are slightly hotter than they should be, new research claims, and theoretical particles called 'dark photons' could explain it.

A Japanese propulsion company developing water-based thrusters is set to test its system on a Sony nanosatellite launched earlier in January.

C/2022 E3 (ZTF) hasn't been this close to Earth in 50,000 years since the last Ice Age and prior to the extinction of the Neanderthals.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover just dropped its 10th sample tube, completing a backup depot of material for future return to Earth.

'Star Trek: Picard' full trailer offers an exciting glimpse into the third and final season of the nostalgia-filled series that brings back the cast of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.'

While two names are cited repeatedly as top candidates for Artemis 2, a four-person moon mission, no official confirmation will come until at least late spring.

Save $65 on the Bushnell H20 10x42 binoculars: an excellent pair of binoculars from a top manufacturer are now half price.

Polaris Dawn is the first of three missions of the Polaris Program. The mission will fly on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and be commanded by Jared Isaacman.

A forthcoming telescope that will observe Earth from space has been renamed in honor of George R. Carruthers, a visionary scientist who designed and built a telescope placed on the moon.

Researchers confirmed that the distant galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope are, indeed, perfectly compatible with our modern understanding of cosmology.

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is tantalizing to spot through a telescope, but what would it look like up close?

On Monday (Jan. 30), the moon will pass in front of Mars from the perspective of Earth in what's known as an occultation. The moon and Mars will also reach conjunction and appulse.

A broken hill, an ancient crater and the human tendency to find faces everywhere may explain the teddy bear on Mars.

A spectacular new image shows the Soul Nebula infused with red light, highlighting a tadpole-like dense region of gas.

SpaceX plans to launch another set of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit on Sunday (Jan. 29), and you can watch the action live.

Discover how gluons bind quarks together to form protons and neutrons and explore the form weird form of matter in which they existed just after the Big Bang.

It's not every day you watch a rocket streak into space over Virginia's Eastern Shore, acing its first-ever liftoff from American soil.

Want to become a published astronomer? All it takes is a spare telescope, or at least a decent internet connection, and plenty of patience.

Canadian company Mission Control Space Services has an interplanetary test forthcoming: Proving its artificial intelligence on a moon rover mission.

The first U.S. woman in space will be honored with a monument outside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum. The same team made another Ride statue in 2022.