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Hale-Bopp was an unusually bright comet that flew close to Earth in 1977. Tragically, Hale-Bopp also influenced the Heaven's Gate cult's mass suicide.

SpaceX is losing 40 new Starlink internet satellites due to a geomagnetic storm.

At the center of a black hole, matter is compressed down to an infinitely tiny point, and all conceptions of time and space completely break down.

Winter's midpoint in 2022, contrary to the tradition of Candlemas or the annual extended forecast derived by Punxsutawney Phil, was on Feb. 3.

Researchers think that comet fragments may have exploded over Ohio 1,600 years ago, triggering a violent airburst and starting wildfires that devastated the Hopewell people's crops and the landscape.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has to stay super cool to observe the cosmos. How does it beat the heat? Black paint.

The rover topped 800 feet with a self-drive function.

Ingenuity aced a 100-second sortie on Tuesday (Feb. 8), its 19th Red Planet flight overall but its first since Dec. 15. A dust storm pushed the liftoff date back by more than a month.

Lockheed Martin will build the Mars Ascent Vehicle, a small rocket that will launch pristine Red Planet samples back toward Earth a decade or so from now.

NASA's Curiosity rover has left plenty of marks on Mars over the past nine-plus years, and the Red Planet is returning the favor.

The Russian space agency released a proposal to allow its Progress cargo ships to arrive in a single orbit, an unprecedented two-hour flight.

India plans to give landing on the moon a second try with its Chandrayaan 3 mission, which is now targeted to launch in August.

The planet Venus has returned to the early morning sky and has established itself as a dazzling morning lantern, emerging into view from beyond the east-southeast horizon before 5 a.m. local standard time.

Some astronomers say the collision is "not a big deal," but to a space archaeologist like me it's quite exciting.

A SpaceX rocket's upper stage was caught on camera careening toward a collision course with the moon.

The rocket stage helped heft the Echostar 23 satellite to orbit in 2017.

Earth and even the sun are puny compared to a mighty, hulking source of gamma-rays.

Our universe was born 13.7 billion years ago in a massive expansion that blew space up like a giant balloon.

The first-stage engines of Astra's Launch Vehicle 0008 fired up as planned today (Feb. 7), but the rocket aborted the liftoff try shortly thereafter due to a telemetry issue.

Elon Musk will give a big Starship update — his first since the fall of 2019 — on Thursday (Feb. 10) at 9 p.m. EST (0200 GMT on Feb. 11).

In life, Mary Golda Ross helped develop a rocket stage that served as a rendezvous and docking target for astronauts preparing to go to the moon. A new statue, donated by Olay, honors her legacy.