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NASA's Artemis program will look for resources on the moon, and details of its complex geology.

Satellites are watching as a so-called atmospheric river brings huge amounts of tropical moisture to California, prompting weather forecasters to issue flood-risk alerts.

South Korea's first moon mission is beaming back images of home from its position in low lunar orbit.

Is blue the true color of the sky, or the only color of the sky? It's complicated.

A giant cloud of magnetized plasma exploded from a sunspot hidden on the far side of the sun, which might turn to face Earth only two days from now.

The HAKUTO-R mission by Japan-based startup ispace performed its second major deep-space maneuver on Jan. 2, keeping it on course to reach the moon in April.

An infrared image of a distant stellar nursery has revealed infant stars poking through its thick orange-hued clouds of star-birthing material.

SpaceX took a little time to reflect on its history-making 2022 in the year's dying moments.

The Joby GorillaPod 5K Tripod is small, compact and versatile travel tripod, but is this pro-grade version worth the price hike from the 3K?

The goal of the experiment was to learn about the interior of the asteroid, which could one day help design an effective Earth-saving mission in case a space rock were to intersect our planet's path.

The Hubble Space Telescope photo reveals an ancient globular cluster gleaming against the blackness of space near the galactic bulge.

The Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft reached NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 30, ending a nine-day cross-country trek.

Walt Cunningham, who tested the Apollo command module in Earth orbit, has died. America's second civilian to fly in space, Cunningham and his Apollo 7 crewmates proved the CM was ready for the moon.

NASA has inquired about using a SpaceX Dragon capsule to bring astronauts home from the International Space Station (ISS) following a recent leak aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule.

A newly discovered hot Jupiter exoplanet located 530 light years from Earth experiences a new year every five days and has a blisteringly hot surface temperature of around 2240 degrees Fahrenheit.

Exotic rock fragments returned to Earth from the lunar surface by Chang'e 5 in 2020 hint at diversity in volcanic activity in the moon's distant past.

Many black hole collisions may occur in densely packed star clusters, hinting at what might cause these violent mergers.

Sometime soon, NASA will begin distributing something it has not had in 50 years: new patches, flags and other souvenirs that flew around the moon. A look ahead at the year in space collectibles.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a pair of galaxies distorting each other as they merge in a great galactic get-together.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched this morning (Jan. 3) from Florida, carrying 114 satellites to orbit — the second-most spacecraft ever lofted on a single mission.