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The first full moon of spring, known as the Paschal Moon, sets the date for Easter each year.

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Space weather experts have been working overtime to hone their forecasts ahead of the Artemis 2 launch, which will send…

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NASA may not be able to move forward with all three of its planned Venus missions as budget pressures force difficult t…

NASA's long-anticipated Artemis 2 mission — the first crewed flight to the moon in more than half a century — could…

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A new catalog of potentially habitable exoplanets provides the framework for future observations in the search for alie…

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Lightning on Jupiter may pack more than 100 times the power of Earth's bolts, and may prove one million times stron…

Europe's Hera spacecraft has completed a major deep-space maneuver, setting it on course to rendezvous late this ye…

The European Space Agency is planning to buy a dedicated SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to send its astronauts to the Inter…

Astronomers have used the XRISM X-ray spacecraft to discover a star being devoured by a stellar companion, solving a my…

The launch of the first crewed moon mission since the Apollo era is just a week away! NASA is preparing to launch its A…

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Here's how to spot the Pleiades before they become lost in the glow of the setting sun.

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NASA will hold a series of events today (March 24) that update us on the agency's plans for the moon and more, and …

Astronomers captured a colorful new portrait of the Triangulum Galaxy, revealing complex clouds of gas in between the g…

Powerful geomagnetic storms sent the northern lights dancing far beyond the poles, delivering a spectacular show across…

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Did primordial black holes born during the Big Bang swallow the universe's antimatter, allowing matter to dominate …

In honor of Shatner's 95th birthday, here's our top ten Kirk moments from Star Trek history.

The Pleiades is a 1,000-strong open star cluster in the constellation Taurus.

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Proposed constellations of orbiting mirrors and data centers would completely destroy the night sky as humanity has kno…

On Episode 202 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Mike Wall, the spaceflight and tech editor…

As moon missions accelerate, countries are working to define how to respond to emergencies and avoid interference betwe…

Extreme exomoons with tidal heating and thick, hydrogen-rich atmospheres may be able to create billions of years of pot…

The latest Starship Troopers video game knows where its strengths lie and packs a couple of neat twists that set it apa…

Incoming solar storms could spark auroras this weekend and thanks to the spring equinox, Earth is perfectly aligned to …

NASA has not reestablished contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter since a planned communications blackout ended Jan. 16.��…

A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they c…

The spring equinox marks the first day of spring today, but daylight actually lasts several minutes longer than night. …

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Rocket Lab will launch an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective today (March 19), and yo…

Two 'missing' episodes of Doctor Who are coming to BBC iPlayer in the UK, so if you have an account, you can st…

NASA will roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket out to the launch pad on Thursday (March 19) ahead of a planned April 1 liftof…

Winter constellations shine defiantly in the face of spring as galaxy season and zodiacal light beckon.

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As NASA gears up for the launch of Artemis 2, the agency is revising its moon landing strategy, aiming to make future m…

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Blue Origin and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are teaming up to design an asteroid-defense spacecraft that will …

Siril stands out as one of the best pieces of open-source software available for astrophotographers.

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Robert Goddard's innovations in liquid-fueled rockets — assisted by his wife, Esther — still resonate 100 years aft…

With the help of an extremely powerful telescope deep underground in Japan, astronomers may be able to catch a glimpse …

Astrophotographer Emil Andronic captured a gorgeous blue reflection nebula glowing inside the red clouds of Orion's…

As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other's sh…

Red Dwarf's scouse technician Dave Lister was the last human alive, a down-on-his-luck slobbish space-hero long bef…

So, why is it that Orion is not always visible in the night sky, and certainly not in the same location month after mon…

Spring skies reveal some of the best galaxies visible to backyard telescopes.

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Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Maine tonight and tomorrow as a speedy solar wind stream is due to arrive.

NASA's Artemis 2 mission, which will launch astronauts to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years, comes …

SpaceX's plan to launch one million orbiting data centers to space worries astronomers, who say the satellite strea…

Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth…

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NASA will give an update about its Artemis 2 moon launch plans today (March 12), and you can watch it live.

Our sun and a host of "solar twins" may have migrated away from the core of the Milky Way galaxy together lon…

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New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that r…

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The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is unusually rich in alcohol — a chemical clue that could reveal how planets and icy bo…

Here are five ways to capture the night sky.

The Colorado company Lux Aeterna wants to help open up the space economy with a fleet of fully reusable satellites, and…

SpaceX is gearing up for the 12th test launch of its Starship rocket, which could liftoff in about 4 weeks, according t…

The mission without a doubt proves that we could deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth — so long as we discover …

SpaceX engineers tested Ship 39's propellant system, leading to some stunning images.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space …

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Private companies are no longer peripheral participants in U.S. space activities. They provide key services, including …

We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detectors that SETI utiliz…

As "Marathon" finally launches, we grill a trio of Bungie developers about the world, aesthetic, and ambition…

We love these night vision binoculars, but we don't love having to buy new batteries so often.

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Japan's new HTV-X cargo spacecraft will depart the International Space Station today (March 6) after a four-month s…

This stunning satellite image of Ouarzazate, Morocco, was taken by Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Vast has raised $500 million in new funding, which the California startup will put toward its goal of getting private s…

Scientists gathered in a conference earlier this year in an effort to solve the issue of satellite streaks ruining a po…

Science is messy business. Finding the truth is easier said than done.

In a major shakeup of the Artemis program, NASA is adding more missions to its timeline to land astronauts on the moon …

From city skylines to remote dark skies, skywatchers worldwide captured the total lunar eclipse 2026 in all its crimson…

Glory to Super Earth!

The world's first commercial space telescope has released its first image as it begins its journey to help track ne…

There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.

Tonight's blood moon was the last that will be seen over North America until New Year's Eve 2028.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has transformed new views of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus into immersive soundscapes…

There's a whole slew of objects that astronomers aren't sure whether to classify as "failed stars" or…

Tonight's blood moon will be the last until New Year's Eve 2028-2029. So catch it if you can!

Hunt for the names of the many moons surrounding our solar system's eight planets.

A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon blood red for billions across North America, Australia and East Asia.

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It'll be the last blood moon until New Year's Eve 2028.