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World Asteroid Day 2025: Watch live views of near-Earth asteroids for free online on June 30

Ron Howard's classic celebrates the mission control geniuses who got the astronauts home.

With the aid of NASA's exoplanet-hunter TESS, citizen scientists have discovered a new gas giant that is cool, lite…

An illustration of Europe's planned Rosalind Franklin rover on the surface of Mars.

Muon Space released the first images from its new wildfire detection satellite, FireSat.

The World Meteorological Organization maintains a list of 21 hurricane names for each year. In especially busy years, a…

Parisian astronomer Camille Flammarion brought used science fiction to bring Mars to life

"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfolio, will help t…

The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiolo…

The 50th and final liftoff of Japan's H-2A rocket is set to launch the GOSAT-GW satellite on Saturday (June 28).

Cheap, uninsured satellites are creating more space junk — and it's starting to rain down on our heads.

The meteor shower radiant can be found in the constellation Bootes.

The fireball was bright enough to be spotted by a lightning-tracking satellite from orbit.

The Mexican president said there is a "general review underway of the international laws that are being violated.&…

For years, Robert Hunt convinced everyone he could that he was a NASA astronaut. The truth was anything but.

A walk in the desert and a curious discovery could have revealed that the secrets of alien life grow in the harshest co…

The telescope, working with the world's largest digital camera, scans the night sky in search of dark matter.

The amount of data generated by the Rubin Observatory is going to blow all previous cosmic datasets out of the water, b…

NASA and the National Science Foundation cancelled their major events at a major astronomy conference this summer. Scie…

The Hubble Space Telescope captures the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 in the constellation Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs).��…

The last Dragon spacecraft that SpaceX plans to build entered orbit for the first time with "grace." Reaching…

June's new moon leaves the sky dark for skywatchers to see Mercury next to our lunar companion on June 27.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Ax-4 mission for Axiom Space today (June 25), sending four private astronauts on …

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to South Dakota as a giant hole in the sun's atmosphere shakes up geomagnetic ac…

Simulations of asteroids near Venus reveal gaps in our ability to detect them.

A radio signal from the dawn of time could help scientists weigh the first stars and reveal how they lifted the cosmic …

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have inst…

Breathing in moon dust can still give you what one astronaut called "lunar hay fever."

A powerful Atlas V rocket lifted off from Florida's Space Coast today (June 23), carrying 27 satellites aloft for A…

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfee…

GPS positions were off by up to 230 feet during the Gannon Solar Storm in May 2024 in a disruption that lasted for up t…

That's a lot of standard candles.

Houston-based Celestis and The Exploration Company are teaming up to fly a memorial payload on SpaceX's Transporter…

You'll need luck on your side to spot these shooting stars.

On Episode 166 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik broadcast live from the National Space Society's Int…

Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern …

The universe seems to be spinning, and that could explain what dark energy is and why it's weakening while revealin…

The Pleiades, a crescent moon and Venus  —  what more could an astrophotographer want?

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will launch six people to suborbital space on Saturday (June 21), and you can watch the act…

The moon is a key step in the journey of space exploration, but making it habitable brings up lots of questions around …

Sunspot region 4114 has done it again! This time unleashing a colossal X1.9 solar flare.

James Webb Space Telescope finds exoplanets in extreme environments that could potentially be habitable.

The monsterous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 isn't just the largest icy rock in the Oort Cloud, it's the seco…

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to New Hampshire as geomagnetic activity remains unsettled.

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have discovered a vast 23 million light-year-wide tendril connecting galact…

SpaceX's newest Starship vehicle exploded on a stand in Texas late Wednesday night (June 18), as it was being prepp…

Firefly Aerospace plans to launch a new "lunar imaging service" called Ocula, which will collect detailed ima…

A stunning new image of the Sculptor Galaxy, located 11 million light-years away, painted in thousands of colors by the…

Satellite streaks are a blight on astronomy. How much are observations by the Vera Rubin super telescope going to suffe…

Get ready for a new Roman Empire: A NASA space telescope will detect a staggering wealth of intricate gravitational len…

Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors witho…

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered an entire galaxy cluster wrapped in a 20 mi…

The beads are over 3.3 billion years old, and date from the formation of the "Man in the Moon."

Dark matter "lampshades" could slip between Earth and distant stars, causing tiny amounts of dimming that may…

The view of our home galaxy lit up the night sky at the U.S. National Science Foundation's Kitt Peak National Obser…

Rapid bursts of energy that last milliseconds but emit as much energy as the sun does in decades are helping astronomer…

Amazon's Kuiper 2 mission is set to lift off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket today (June 16), and you ca…

We love the design of the Juzihao Star Projector, but despite its size, its projections don't have the biggest reac…

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

The film shows never-before-seen footage taken by the JWST film crew as the telescope was being assembled.

"It's like looking for candlelight in close vicinity to a flashlight that's blazing toward us."

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has revealed the six people who will fly on the company's 13th space tourism mission, t…

Celebrities William Shatner and Neil deGrasse Tyson lead the “Universe is Absurd” show, which is hosted by Future of Sp…

With this week's expected arrival of a visiting crew delayed, science and maintenance work on board the Internation…

The James Webb Space Telescope has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of one of the coldest and oldest…

At the Kennedy Space Center, a new robot shovels up manufactured lunar dust as part of a larger test.

Auroras may be seen from Alaska to Wyoming as Earth is buffeted by turbulent space weather.

The space environment is not kind to human bodies. The final frontier may therefore be the perfect place to study cance…

Ancient supernovas may have blasted Earth with powerful radiation, causing dramatic changes in our climate, and could d…

"There's no way for us to operate such a complex facility."

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the smallest brown dwarfs ever seen with the potentia…

"These first images are astonishing, but the best is still yet to come."

Get the Bushnell 10x42mm Trophy at its best price this year — a fantastic pair of budget binoculars for skywatching on …

Star RIK 113 is busy making a new planet in its protoplanetary disk as seen in this new image from the Very Large Teles…

Here are the best photos of the lowest full moon in over a decade.

The CLASS telescope array has taken a fresh look at the infant universe to hunt for polarized light in the Cosmic Micro…

429 days down, 429 to go until the next total solar eclipse.

The Enterprise crew launches into more bold sci-fi encounters starting July 17, and Paramount just dropped a new traile…

Catch the full moon rise over the southeastern horizon on June 10.

An astronaut from India is set to launch to the International Space Station on the Ax-4 mission on June 11, marking a f…

In May 2025, President Donald Trump announced a plan to build a missile defense system, called the Golden Dome. How exa…

Unfortunately, any work you do in the universe will have to be done the old-fashioned way.

SpaceX will launch four astronauts to the ISS on the private Ax-4 mission Tuesday morning (June 10), and you can watch …

"I don't think it is an overstatement to say that morale among U.S.-based scientists is at an all-time low.&qu…

Preparations for the arrival of a visiting crew, the continued study of how humans adapt to microgravity and more highl…

Antares is a red supergiant star located 400 light-years from Earth.

China has revealed the first image from its Tianwen 2 asteroid sample return mission, which is now more than 3 million …

"I've had a number of NASA personnel come up and think that the one that was theirs was ours, and they're …

On Episode 164 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss these concerning times for NASA with Casey Dreie…

A historic dust storm hit Chicago last month, and a weather satellite gave us a bird's-eye view of the dramatic eve…

Don't miss the 2025 full "Strawberry Moon" when it rises above the southeastern horizon on June 10.

"The first time I spotted it, I thought at first it may have been a rare form of blue aurora but then realised it …

The Pococo Galaxy Star Projector is currently 28% off and will arrive in time for Father's Day — and you can get it…

The latest Predator movie – the series’ first foray into animation – is much more than a quick retread of old ideas in …

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very di…

NASA's Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC …

A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 m…

Aurora chasers, keep your eyes on the skies as we might be in for another show this weekend, albeit slightly smaller th…

Mikael Genberg discusses his "Moonhouse" project, which is about to land a tiny replica of the iconic red-and…

New research suggests that the largest magnetic fields in the universe originated through some exotic mechanism that ab…

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has begun revealing how it plans to establish itself as a provider of hardware that will en…

The HTC Vive Flow is now $200 off and the perfect VR headset deal for beginners and those seeking light entertainment a…

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered the fiery origin of WASP-121b, a distant exoplanet stre…

The American Museum of Natural History in New York has a new space gems exhibit, courtesy of luxury jewel Van Cleef and…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 satellites for the company's Starlink constellation from Cape Canaveral, Flori…

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Oregon as geomagnetic storm conditions start to wane.

In-orbit servicing and refueling could help curb the environmental harm done by the space industry. But will operators …

A newly designed, AI-powered program could solve the puzzle of binary stars in mere seconds using a common laptop, a pr…

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Massachusetts geomagnetic storm conditions continue.

The planetary nebula is located 3,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco.

The first quarter moon is the perfect opportunity to explore shadowed craters lining the terminator.

A new study debates the complex ethical questions that must be considered if we're to terraform Mars and lays the b…

Northern lights may once again be visible deep into mid latitudes tonight as geomagnetic storm conditions continue to w…

The speedy solar storm arrived in style, sparking stunning aurora displays as far south as California and New Mexico.��…

NASA's X-ray space telescope IXPE has made the first observation of polarized light emerging from an outbursting ma…