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Skywatchers will have a chance to see Comet Leonard — the brightest comet of 2021 — near Venus in the evening sky tonight (Dec. 17).

Laura Shepard Churchley is not sure if she is an astronaut. The daughter of America's first astronaut to fly into space, Churchley followed in her father's trajectory by lifting off with Blue Origin.

SpaceX will launch its second stack of Starlink satellites from the West Coast early Saturday morning (Dec. 18), and you can watch the action live online. 

The geocentric model is a debunked theory that the Earth is the center of the universe, with the sun and planets revolving around it.

Google is celebrating the 315th birthday of Émilie du Châtelet, who was a physicist, translator, philosopher despite the exclusion of women from physics at the time.

The existence of primordial black holes in the earliest universe could explain dark matter as well as the sizes of black holes scientists can see today, a new study suggests.

Skywatchers will have a chance to see Comet Leonard — the brightest comet of 2021 — near Venus in the evening sky tonight (Dec. 17).

The icy process may be present on other worlds.

China broadcast a live classroom from its new space station on Dec. 9, in an effort to both inspire students and present a friendly image of the country's space ambitions.

Here's why December's Cold Moon is the longest full moon of the year.

A multiverse may be a natural prediction of the physical theories that define the beginning of the universe.

The UN says temperatures were "more befitting the Mediterranean than the Arctic."

December's full moon on Saturday (Dec. 18), the last of the year, will usher in the winter constellations and notably, three naked-eye planets in the evening.

Several former employees have gone public with allegations of sexual harassment experienced at SpaceX.

A faulty data cable between the James Webb Space Telescope and launch pad equipment caused the big observatory's latest launch delay.

Perseverance has identified carbon-containing organic chemicals in some of the rocks it's examined on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater.

The helicopter finished its 17th flight on Dec. 5, and is getting ready for an 18th as soon as Wednesday (Dec. 15).

By creating ice from tiny droplets only a few hundred molecules in size, researchers have pushed water's freezing point lower than ever before and changed what we know about how ice forms.

Less than a year after nailing its first interplanetary mission with a flawless Mars orbit insertion, the United Arab Emirates has selected its next destination: the asteroid belt.

China's 50th orbital launch of 2021 sent a new data relay satellite into orbit on Monday (Dec. 13) to support the country's space station and crewed missions.

The next launch of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is slated for May 2022, company officials announced on Monday (Dec. 13).