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SpaceX launches 21 Starlink internet satellites from Florida, lands rocket at sea (photos)

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What time is the NASA Parker Solar Probe's closest sun flyby ever on Christmas Eve?

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Space2Sea Antarctica: William Shatner, Neil deGrasse Tyson and NASA astronauts talk exploration and science from the Drake Passage

15h ago

You can now wear an Apollo Guidance Computer keypad as a wristwatch

18h ago

Planes, drones or UFOs: What are people seeing in the New Jersey sky?

Sat

Winter solstice 2024 brings shortest day of the year to Northern Hemisphere today

Sat

Astronauts on NASA's moon-orbiting Gateway space station will wear smart undershirts to stay healthy

Sat

SpaceX launching 30 satellites on Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission early Dec. 21

Fri

Space2Sea Antarctica: A student journalist's expedition to bottom of the world begins

Fri

Dreaming of a white Christmas? Snow is likely in these US states according to NOAA climate data

Fri

SpaceX launching 4 'MicroGEO' satellites to orbit tonight

Fri

Axiom's private space station is coming sooner than we thought

Fri

Watch NASA's Artemis Orion moon spacecraft blow its top during testing (video)

Fri

NASA Mars probe spies dusty, retired Insight lander from orbit (photo)

Fri

Rocket Lab scrubs Strix radar satellite launch for Synspective over 'sensor data'

Fri

Hubble's 'impossible' planet explained? Gas giants may have formed fast in early universe

Fri

NASA's Hubble and Chandra telescopes discover a strange 'sideways' black hole in a cosmic crime scene (image)

Fri

The Ursid meteor shower peaks this weekend. Here's what to expect from the final 'shooting stars' of 2024

Fri

US Space Force 5 years later: What has it accomplished so far, and where does it go from here?

Fri

Watch Rocket Lab launch a private Earth-imaging satellite this morning

Fri

Russian cosmonauts install X-ray detector, jettison trash on spacewalk outside ISS

Thu

SpaceX inks deal to launch 2 more astronaut missions to the ISS

Thu

NASA space telescopes give Christmas Tree Cluster a festive makeover (photos)

Thu

BepiColombo spacecraft flies by Mercury, sees volcanic plain and impact craters

Thu

SpaceX will launch Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander to the moon in mid-January with these 10 NASA payloads

Thu

'Missing link' black hole found? Not so fast, new study says

Thu

Watch Russian cosmonauts install new X-ray detector during ISS spacewalk today (video)

Thu

This baby exoplanet is made of different stuff than its birth cloud

Thu

Puffy white dwarfs could shed light on mysterious dark matter. Here's how.

Thu

Double moon mission! SpaceX to launch 2 private lunar landers in January

Thu

Private Japanese rocket explodes after liftoff in its 2nd launch failure of 2024 (photos)

Wed

James Webb Space Telescope catches monster black hole napping after 'overeating' in the early universe

Wed

Potentially habitable planet TRAPPIST-1b may have a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere

Wed

The moon may be 100 million years older than we thought

Wed

Hubble trouble or Superbubble? Astronomers need to escape the 'supervoid' to solve cosmology crisis

Wed

Watch the sun fire out 'extremely rare' coronal mass ejection and two fiery filaments (video)

Wed

China launches 1st set of spacecraft for planned 13,000-satellite broadband constellation (photo)

Wed

Chinese astronauts conduct record-breaking 9-hour spacewalk outside Tiangong space station (photos)

Wed

Human artifacts abandoned on Mars should be cataloged to track our migration beyond Earth

Wed

Boeing Starliner astronauts will return to Earth in March 2025 after new NASA, SpaceX delay

Wed

SpaceX's Starship Flight 7 test flight gets FAA launch license. But when will it fly?

Tue

SpaceX wants Starbase to become an official city in Texas

Tue

SpaceX test-fires Starship spacecraft again ahead of Flight 7 launch (video)

Tue

Webb mail: US Priority Mail stamps to again star deep space images in 2025

Tue

Astronomers discover 1st binary stars orbiting supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way

Tue

SpaceX launching 2 mPOWER communication satellites from Florida today

Tue

SpaceX launches 6th batch of next-gen US spy satellites from California (video)

Tue

NASA astronaut Suni Williams poses with adorable tentacle-armed Astrobee robot on ISS (photo)

Tue

Meet Endurance, a pioneering NASA moon rover designed to survive the frigid lunar night

Tue

James Webb Space Telescope witnesses Firefly Sparkle galaxy 'being assembled brick by brick' (image, video)

Mon

Watch SpaceX Starship test fire engines ahead of flight 7 launch (video)

Mon

SpaceX’s 31st Dragon cargo capsule departs ISS to head home to Earth

Mon

1st monster black hole ever pictured erupts with surprise gamma-ray explosion

Mon

Saturn's rings could be much older than scientists first thought

Mon

This red giant star has starspots larger than the entire sun

Mon

December full moon 2024: Cold Moon puts on a dazzling show for skywatchers worldwide (photos)

Mon

See the moon meet up with Mars this in the night sky this week

Mon

Who is Jared Isaacman, Trump's pick for NASA chief?

Mon

See the best Geminid meteor shower 2024 photos from around the world

Sun

There's a weird, disappearing dark spot on Saturn's moon Enceladus

Sun

NASA astronaut uses homemade star tracker to take incredible deep space photo from ISS

Dec 13

SpaceX rolls 7th Starship spacecraft out for testing ahead of next launch (photos)

Dec 13

SpaceX launching mysterious RRT-1 mission from Florida tonight

Dec 13

December full moon rises this weekend: How to see the last full moon of 2024

Dec 13

SpaceX launching 22 Starlink internet satellites from California today

Dec 13

How to watch the Geminid meteor shower 2024 live online tonight (Dec. 13)

Dec 13

NASA's Mars exploration plans need 'paradigm shifts' to succeed, report finds

Dec 13

Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth − so astrobiologists are coming up with a framework to study how complex systems evolve

Dec 13

Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight! Here's how to see one of the best meteor showers of the year

Dec 13

‘Tragedy of the commons’ in space: We need to act now to prevent an orbital debris crisis, scientists say

Dec 13

Up and over! NASA's Mars rover Perseverance reaches rim of its Jezero Crater home (video)

Dec 13

Galaxy-size jet from monster black hole blasts mystery object in deep space (video)

Dec 13

Astronomers discover 7 new 'dark comets,' but what exactly are they?

Dec 12

India practices pulling its Gaganyaan astronaut capsule out of the sea (photos)

Dec 12

Panama, Austria sign Artemis Accords, bringing tally to 50 nations

Dec 12

Violent superflares explode from sun-like stars every 100 years

Dec 12

Meteor strikes on the moon! Astronomer captures possible Geminid lunar impacts (videos)

Dec 12

Fireball! Meteor streaks across Indiana’s early-morning sky (videos)

Dec 12

'SALLY' at Sundance: NatGeo film to reveal 'hidden love' of 1st US woman in space

Dec 12

What causes volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's moon Io? Scientists aren't so sure anymore

Dec 12

'Grand' spiral galaxy dazzles in new Hubble Telescope photo

Dec 12

Dramatic changes on Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter revealed in 10 years of Hubble Telescope images (video)

Dec 12

Japanese company ispace plans to land helium-3 mining missions on the moon

Dec 11

SpaceX launch of NASA's new 3D-sky-mapping satellite set for February 2025

Dec 11

'We are preparing to make history:' NASA's Parker Solar Probe gears up for epic sun flyby on Christmas Eve

Dec 11

ORCs in space! Astronomers find another vast odd radio circle in 'completely unexpected discovery'

Dec 11

After crashing on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter could live on as a weather station for 20 years

Dec 11

Seismometers track atmospheric shock waves from incoming space debris

Dec 11

2 huge asteroid strikes 36 million years ago didn't change Earth's climate over the long haul, study finds

Dec 11

NASA will fly F-15s through supersonic shock waves behind its experimental X-57 jet

Dec 11

Wonky row crops and 'possessed' tractors: The surprising impact of solar storms on modern farming

Dec 11

Carbon dioxide rivers? Ancient Mars' liquid may not all have been water

Dec 11

Rocket Lab's secretive launch last month was a hypersonic test for the US military (photos)

Dec 10

Sunny days on Mars come with a weather warning: Dust storms ahead!

Dec 10

Large Hadron Collider finds 1st evidence of the heaviest antimatter particle yet

Dec 10

SpaceX rocket launch tops the Christmas tree at Vandenberg Space Force Base (photo)

Dec 10

Cosmic rays may complicate the quest to find life on Mars

Dec 10

How the 'Great Filter' could explain why we haven't found intelligent aliens

Dec 10

NASA tests high-tech software for future mission to search for life on Jupiter's moon Europa

Dec 10

Geminid meteor shower fills the sky with 'shooting stars' in spectacular time-lapse photos

Dec 10