diff --git a/Lib/datetime.py b/Lib/datetime.py
index 260b1de38877a6..779851f5b2aa9c 100644
--- a/Lib/datetime.py
+++ b/Lib/datetime.py
@@ -1682,13 +1682,13 @@ def fromtimestamp(cls, t, tz=None):
     @classmethod
     def utcfromtimestamp(cls, t):
         """Construct a naive UTC datetime from a POSIX timestamp."""
-        return cls._fromtimestamp(t, True, None)
+        return cls._fromtimestamp(t, True, timezone.utc)
 
     @classmethod
     def now(cls, tz=None):
         "Construct a datetime from time.time() and optional time zone info."
         t = _time.time()
-        return cls.fromtimestamp(t, tz)
+        return cls.fromtimestamp(t, tz).astimezone()
 
     @classmethod
     def utcnow(cls):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-04-19-22-38-45.gh-issue-88829.a0Dicd.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-04-19-22-38-45.gh-issue-88829.a0Dicd.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..4a34c844d7eba6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-04-19-22-38-45.gh-issue-88829.a0Dicd.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+now() and utcnow() returns timezone-aware objects