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Optical illusions that can be seen flanking the sun, sundogs are a beautiful and fascinating sight. When is the best time to see them and how did they get their canine-inspired name?

Santa Claus is coming to town, and you can track his progress worldwide this Christmas with NORAD's Santa Tracker website.

A slight bump in activity on the sun might make auroras shine as far south as Maine or Michigan, but that's only if observers can get around a massive winter storm in the region.

The world is struggling to wean itself off fossil fuels. Should space-based solar power be part of the solution?

The Senate passed legislation that would direct NASA to establish a program to remove orbital debris, but supporters of the bill will have to try again in the next Congress to enact it. The post Senate passes orbit debri...

Scientists have proposed another use for the world's largest gravitational wave observatory: scanning for the ripples in space-time left in the wake of gargantuan alien spaceships.

China has released a small test satellite into orbit from its recently completed Tiangong space station.

With each of the International Space Station docking ports full, NASA has a backup plan to get the merry elf inside the orbiting complex.

High winds and deep snow are making travel hazardous in a near-record area of the United States, forecasters warn, as 200 million people grapple with unusually severe weather.

In a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal, a pair of researchers led by The Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute in California investigated the potential origin for the thick regolith deposits on Ur...

The final new moon of 2022 is upon us, signaling the beginning of the lunar cycle that will lead into 2023.

Cube-shaped snow, icy landscapes, and frost are all part of the Red Planet's coldest season.

Recently, Andreas Mogensen, now getting ready for his "Huginn" mission to the ISS in 2023, stopped by ESA's ESOC mission control center in Darmstadt, Germany, to meet with some of the experts who keep our satellites flyi...

When a spiral galaxy presents itself just right, observations reveal more detail. That’s the case with NGC 7469, a spiral galaxy about 220 million light-years away. It’s face-on towards us, and the James Webb Space T...

If you're looking to bag a bargain before the year is out, then saving almost $70 on the Celestron PowerSeeker 127EQ could be what you're looking for.

The quadrennial wait for updating global spectrum rules stands in stark contrast to the rapid pace of change now sweeping through space and terrestrial communications. The post Connecting the Dots | Speeding up the satel...

Ukraine and Elon Musk weren't the only big stories of 2022. These seven commanded our attention with actions that will reverberate well into 2023. The post The Rest of 2022’s Notable Nine appeared first on SpaceNews.

Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine was the biggest story of 2022. Aside from reviving Cold War fears of nuclear war and playing havoc with energy markets, it's been a black swan event for a space industry still adju...

NASA has studied our home planet for 60 years. Now, the agency is ramping up its efforts, collecting more detailed data on the Earth and focusing on developing sustainable technologies.

The first 12 months of the JWST's mission have exceeded all expectations, with some incredible new discoveries that are just the tip of the iceberg of what's to come.

As astronauts completed a delayed spacewalk outside the International Space Station, NASA and Roscosmos officials said they are continuing to study whether a Soyuz spacecraft that suffered a coolant leak can safely retur...