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

A tour of Jupiter’s moons and a mission to a "metal asteroid" are among the spacecraft to be launched in 2023.

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.

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The Transporter 6 mission will launch 114 small payloads from customers around the world. Follow us on Twitter.

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.

Launcher’s Orbiter SN1 transfer vehicle hosts multiple payloads on SpaceX’s Transporter 6 mission. Credit: Launcher / John Kraus

The 114 small satellites set for launch Tuesday on SpaceX’s first mission of the year include 36 spacecraft for Planet’s commercial remote sensing fleet, a space-based solar power experiment, and space tugs to piggyback payloads into different orbits.

NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket streaks into the night sky over Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 16. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography

The U.S. Space Force is preparing for as many as 87 launches from Florida’s Space Coast in 2023, including dozens more SpaceX missions and the expected debuts of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan and Relativity’s Terran 1 rockets.

Acclaimed astrophotographer Akira Fujii's wide-field views of the constellations, each with impeccable star images, have been a hallmark of Sky & Telescope magazine for nearly four decades.

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.