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Scientists are one step closer to solving a key mystery about the sun.

Artificial light pollution from Earth is contaminating the skies over most major astronomical observatories, requiring immediate action to remedy, a team of international scientists has determined.

From investigating UFOs over Earth to using the most powerful telescope ever devised to peer into the atmosphere of alien worlds, 2022 has been a banner year in the search for extraterrestrial life.

The Manfrotto Element MII has everything you could want in a sturdy yet lightweight tripod, all at an affordable price.

Asteroid Launcher, a new web app that gives asteroid impact fanatics a shot at answering some of their questions on what an asteroid crash would be like.

The moon will visit Saturn for the last time of 2022 on Monday (Dec. 26) in a parting Christmas gift in a twilight conjunction that will disappear from view before night sets in.

DK Publishing has released the new companion book "The Art of Avatar: The Way of Water" to the smash hit sci-fi film.

We know very little about Mars rock glaciers, but scientists do suspect that they may hold significant amounts of water.

NASA is making the case for a "winter wonderland" on Mars in a new video from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

The Christmas moon lines up with four bright planets in a celestial holiday treat this week.

A new climate simulation program has successfully recreated a living, swirling version of the famous 1972 "Blue Marble" photo taken by Apollo 17 astronauts.

Engineer and YouTuber Xyla Foxlin and DIY rocket maker Joe Barnard of BPS.space teamed up to launch Christmas tree from the California desert this year.

Oni Press releases a new horror-saturated miniseries, "Rick and Morty vs Cthulhu #1."

A newly released image of Mars shows an icy scene, with ribbons of red and white dancing across a frosty landscape near the planet's south pole.

Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, will shine brightly in the sky on Christmas Eve as it reaches its highest altitude in the evening sky.

This year saw it's share of spaceflight success stories, but there were also missions that didn't go as planned. Countdown the top rocket failures of 2022 with us.

NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft made an epic flight to the moon, Russia invaded Ukraine and SpaceX set a few records.

NASA's Perseverance rover successfully dropped its second rock sample tube on the Martian surface, its longest sample yet.

Boom! Studios releases a two-fisted final issue to end the "All-New Firefly" comics series.

A slight bump in activity on the sun might make auroras shine as far south as Maine or Michigan, but that's only if observers can get around a massive winter storm in the region.

Russia and NASA are still evaluating whether a leaky Soyuz spacecraft is safe to return three International Space Station crew members home.