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Is the Perseid meteor shower going to get even mor...
Jupiter's gravity could trigger an outburst of Perseid meteors as the 2028 shower hits its peak.
At 25% off, this beginner-friendly Celestron teles...
Want great views of this week's partial lunar eclipse or a closer look at Saturn as it reaches oppos...
On this day in space! Aug. 24, 2006: Pluto loses i...
On Aug. 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided that Pluto wasn't a planet anym...
Satellite sees Greenland's most significant floati...
A fractured "ice tongue" is visible in the imagery.
Nancy Grace Roman Telescope live updates: NASA rea...
Follow NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket t...
The earliest galaxy 'swallowed' by the cannibal Mi...
The earliest example of the Milky Way cannibalising a smaller galaxy for its growth involved a cosmi...
What to expect from each stage of the partial luna...
Here's what to expect during the 5 key stages of the "almost Blood Moon" 96% partial lunar eclipse o...
It's been 20 years since Pluto lost planet status....
The reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet continues to stir up a hornet's nest of controversy ...
How a huge fleet of 17 spacecraft discovered somet...
Taking measurements of the same CME from different vantage points in the solar system revealed the t...
Bad weather delays launch of China's historic Chan...
China has delayed its ambitious ice-hunting Chang'e 7 mission to the moon's south pole due to a brew...
Launching 10,000 tiny 'femtosats' to Saturn? NASA ...
NASA has chosen 18 technology proposals for its Innovative Advanced Concepts awards to help turn som...
How will NASA's astronaut training hub change with...
A tour of Johnson Space Center in Houston shows how NASA and private industry are already working to...
'We Want to Believe' book explores the reality of ...
Acclaimed literary critic and Senior Editor at The Atlantic Adam Kirsch explores humanity's insatiab...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 224 — The Scie...
On Episode 224 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Rick Jenet are joined by Dr. David ...
SpaceX sends 27 Starlink satellites to orbit on 10...
SpaceX launched 27 Starlink satellites from California early this morning (Aug. 22), on the 100th mi...
On this day in space! Aug. 22, 1963: X-15 sets wor...
On this day in space! Aug. 22, 1963: U.S. Air Force Captain Joe Walker flew an X-15 rocket plane hig...
Partial lunar eclipse August 2026: Where will it b...
Here's where the 96% partial lunar eclipse will be visible from on Earth.
What happens when a galaxy's supermassive black ho...
Astronomers have discovered a hitherto unseen population of galaxies with fading radio lobes, reveal...
Trump signs new national space policy to enable 1,...
The United States is updating its approach to managing spaceflights and reentries, with the goal of ...
'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' cast talks losing ...
"We lose so much sleep, we have crazy hours, we say crazy things, we even look crazy."
Trump to award NASA's Artemis II astronauts the Co...
The NASA astronauts who flew around the moon on the Artemis II mission will receive the Congressiona...
Japan unveils Mars moon sample-return spacecraft a...
Japan recently gave the world a look at the spacecraft of its MMX mission, which will launch on Oct....
SpaceX fires up Starship ahead of megarocket’s 1st...
SpaceX completed a single-engine test-firing of its next Starship spacecraft to prepare for its comi...
'Dark stars' could be the seeds of supermassive bl...
A mysterious hum of gravitational waves that fills the cosmos may be the echo of long-dead "dark sta...
SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites, lands rock...
SpaceX launched yet another Starlink mission today (Aug. 21), sending 29 more of the broadband satel...
On this day in space! Aug. 21, 1914: Total solar e...
On Aug. 21, 1914, a total solar eclipse temporarily darkened skies across Europe and Asia.
Ancient stars dazzle in a celestial chandelier | S...
Stars scattered across the cosmos sparkle in the appropriately named Chandelier Cluster.
My favorite thing in the night sky appears on Aug....
We'll soon get a chance to see a giant curved shadow in space move slowly across the moon during a v...
Could 'dark photons' explain dark matter?
New research suggests that if dark matter is composed of "dark photons," it would not have heated th...
Primatologist Shirley Strum has spent more than fi...
Shirley Strum's decades of fieldwork on olive baboons in Kenya reshaped how biologists think about p...
China's Chang'e 7 moon probe will launch this week...
China aims to launch its Chang'e 7 moon mission on Aug. 24 to send a lander, a rover, a hopper and a...
SpaceX will try for 1st Starship tower catch 'in a...
SpaceX will likely try to make the first-ever catch of its Starship upper stage a few months from no...
Microbes from Earth may survive on the moon, scien...
"Even a bootprint or a rover's tread may create a habitable area."
'Wet Hot American Summer': The raunchy 2000s teen ...
Reminiscing about the summer camp Skylab disaster movie on its 25th anniversary.
A weather satellite 22,000 miles above Earth saved...
Joe Rao took to sea aboard the cruise ship Le Boréal to watch the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 20...
Ludicrous, nonsensical, an affront to canon — 'Str...
It could have been a disaster, but "Star Trek"'s collaboration with the Jim Henson Company is a hila...
Mars Express orbiter captures detailed new video o...
Europe's Mars Express orbiter has captured stunning telemetry to create a new flyover visualization ...
On this day in space! Aug. 20, 1977: Voyager 2 lau...
On this day in space! Aug. 20, 1977: NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore ...
Try not to be hypnotized by the 'Eye of Africa' | ...
This geologic feature has been mesmerizing astronauts since 1965.
James Webb Space Telescope finds 'hidden stars' ma...
James Webb Space Telescope is finding that between the brightest stars, the cosmic skyscrapers, ther...
Partial lunar eclipse live: Latest news, viewing t...
Follow our live coverage as we count down to the deepest partial lunar eclipse until December 2028, ...
A 96% partial lunar eclipse is just 1 week away: H...
Earth's inner shadow will cover 96% of the moon's disk during the Aug. 27-28 partial lunar eclipse.
Watch Rocket Lab launch a private Japanese Earth-o...
Rocket Lab will launch its ninth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS this morning (A...
Scientists just found the fastest known star in th...
Astronomers have found the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint object racing around Sagitta...
Private mission to save NASA's Swift space telesco...
A private spacecraft tasked with boosting the orbit of NASA's Swift Observatory has failed in its mi...
Scientists create 'laundry gun' for astronauts to ...
A pen-sized apparatus called a "laundry gun" could sterilize astronauts' clothes in space.
'The Mandalorian and Grogu' finally blasts onto Di...
Will this underwhelming spinoff of "The Mandalorian" find new life in the streaming world?
Dark matter could magnify the jets of a ravenously...
A jet erupting from a distant supermassive black hole-powered blazar is being gravitationally lensed...
A SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon this month —...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the crater gouged out on the moon by a SpaceX rocket...
