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Skywatching can get expensive, so here are five ways to save on a skywatching trip.

NASA and SpaceX are pushing the Crew-4 mission back one day because of a jam-packed launch schedule, officials announced today (March 31).

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope just made a remarkable discovery, and they gave it quite a unique name.

Jack Lousma does not remember having M&M's while he was in space. As a NASA astronaut, Lousma commanded the third space shuttle mission 40 years ago, which flew the first candy-coated chocolates.

The sun is waking up and we are experiencing the effects on Earth as disruptive radio blackouts and stunning aurora displays.

A New Shepard rocket-capsule combo lifted off from Blue Origin's Launch Site One in West Texas on Thursday morning (March 31), carrying six people to suborbital space.

Our picks for the best space books for kids will add science and diverse titles to youngsters' libraries.

New miniaturized instruments will help detect pollutant gas sources, from power plants to volcanoes.

China has established the Tiandu deep-space exploration laboratory to support the development of the country's growing plans for lunar and planetary missions.

Blue Origin will launch 6 passengers on the NS-20 space tourism mission on March 31, 2022. Here are our live updates of the launch.

Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin will launch six people to the final frontier Thursday morning (March 31), and you can watch the action live.

The X-class flare caused a shortwave radio blackout, and it's possible we'll see auroras in the coming days.

Wex have models from Celstron, Vortex and Leica for a discount with savings ranging from £30 to £295

Data from a retired NASA space telescope revealed the disaster scene left behind by a cosmic collision.

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei can't wait to see his wife after landing back on Earth after a record-breaking mission.

Almost 50 years ago, in the midst of the Cold War, American astronauts flew to space alongside cosmonauts as part of NASA's first attempt to forge a partnership between the U.S. and Russia in space.

Humanity is making a giant leap back to the moon and to Mars. But one giant obstacle continues to plague the humans making this progress possible: sexual harassment.

A Long March 6 rocket featuring four solid strap-on boosters successfully launched two satellites to orbit on Tuesday (March 29), according to media reports.

The most distant single star seen yet dates back to less than 1 billion years after the universe's birth in the Big Bang, and may shed light on the earliest stars in the cosmos, a new study finds.

A powerful solar storm is set to hit Earth on Thursday with spectacular aurora displays accompanying it after the sun fired nearly 20 flares from a single sun spot in just two days.

The "Chaos" regions on Jupiter's moon Europa might hold keys to the possible existence of life in the ocean under the moon's icy crust.