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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.

A metallic alloy of chromium, cobalt, and nickel is over 100 times tougher than graphene and gets even more resistant to damage at extremely low temperatures.

A wild theory suggests that consciousness may explain quantum mechanics, by forcing the subatomic particles to choose one concrete outcome.

Stars in the NGC 2002 cluster glitter in a new Hubble Space Telescope image of deep space.

China is looking to put its first astronauts around the end of the decade and we're now getting glimpses of how this plan may play out.

A feeding supermassive black hole in the galactic cluster MS0735 is b is burping out huge amounts of energy clearing cosmic bubbles in its surroundings.

NASA’s new water surveying SWOT spacecraft can be seen unfurling its main antenna in a stunning new video shot in space.

A comet that hasn't visited Earth since the Neanderthals existed during the last ice age is set to blast past Earth in early 2023. The comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) could be so bright it is visible to the naked eye.

What lurks at the center of a black hole? Studying the space-time ripples from black hole collisions could reveal an answer.

The bright moon will interfere with the 2023 Quadrantid meteor shower this year, limiting the shooting star display.

SpaceX will ring in the New Year a little late with its first launch on Jan. 2 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, bringing to space several small satellites on the Transporter-6 mission.

Einstein toyed with the idea of faster-than-light-particles but found that such particles violated a central rule of the universe: causality.

The Hubble Space Telescope has collected a stunning image of the globular cluster NGC 6440 appearing almost like a cosmic bee hive surrounded by a swarm of stellar bees.

The Expedition 68 crew rang in 2023 with holiday cheer, including Santa hats, stockings and ornaments in the United States and Russian segments.

A special type of supernova might be able to destroy a planet's ozone layer years after the initial explosion.

The barred spiral galaxy NGC 6956 isn't just pretty to look at in this new Hubble photo, it's an essential tool for understanding the universe.