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Blue Origin launches 6 tourists on suborbital trip from Texas, including 750th person ever to fly into space
Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its 13th crewed New Shepard rocket on a successful suborbital spaceflight on Sunday, June 29, 2025.
NASA budget cuts threaten Europe's already troubled flagship Mars rover
NASA was to supply some critical technologies for the mission, which Europe may not be able to readily replace.
'Apollo 13' at 30: The space movie where scientists have the right stuff too
Ron Howard's classic celebrates the mission control geniuses who got the astronauts home.
NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft and citizen scientists discover a cool new alien world
With the aid of NASA's exoplanet-hunter TESS, citizen scientists have discovered a new gas giant that is cool, literally and figuratively.
Satellites trace a triangle above Gemini North Telescope | Space photo of the day for June 30, 2025
The satellites were seen in the night skies near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
Astronomers discover 'raw materials for life' can form in planetary systems even before stars
"Each new detection brings us closer to understanding the origins of complex organic chemistry in the universe — and perhaps, the origins of the building blocks of life themselves."
'Apollo 13' turns 30: How NASA legend Gerry Griffin helped director Ron Howard 'get it right'
As 'Apollo 13' turns 30, we talk to legendary NASA flight director Gerry Griffin who helped make the film as realistic as possible.
Was ancient Mars habitable? NASA's Perseverance rover is grinding into a 'weird, uncooperative' rock to find out
NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose material that could hold clues to the planet's ancient environment and...
Astronomers discover a galaxy frozen in time for billions of years: 'Fossil galaxies are like the dinosaurs of the universe'
Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that has been "frozen in time" for billions of years. Like a celestial dinosaur fossil, this galaxy could reveal the secrets of cosmic evolution.
Astonishing 'halo' of high-energy particles around giant galaxy cluster is a glimpse into the early universe
A distant cluster of galaxies is wrapped in a vast halo of high-energy particles that could be the work of supermassive black holes or a cosmic particle accelerator.
NASA's Curiosity rover takes a closer look at 'spiderwebs' on Mars | Space photo of the day for July 1, 2025
The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.
Australia's first orbital rocket, Gilmour Space's Eris-1, to launch July 2 after nose cone glitch
The Australian company Gilmour Space is back at the launch pad with its Eris-1 rocket, preparing for the country's first orbital launch on July 2.
An enormous 'X' and 'V' will grace the moon's surface on July 2. Here's how to see them
The phenomenon is created by the shifting play of light and shadow over the lunar surface.
You can see a giant 'hole' shoot across Saturn this summer — and it won't happen again until 2040
There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing surface over the next few months. The rare spectacle is...
'City killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 could shower Earth with 'bullet-like' meteors if it hits the moon in 2032
There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, debris from the nuclear bomb-like impact...
Scientists find new way of spotting invisible 'plasma bubbles' lurking in Earth's upper atmosphere
Researchers in China have developed a way of locating giant "equatorial plasma bubbles" in the ionosphere by analyzing the vibrant airglow that forms above them. The findings could help avoid...
Why does Mars look purple, yellow and orange in ESA's stunning new satellite image?
Surprising colors and stunning features are captured in a new image of Mars' surface.
Listen to the Andromeda galaxy's stars played as musical notes in eerie NASA video
NASA's Chandra Observatory has combined different wavelength images of the Andromeda galaxy to honor astronomer Vera Rubin, and then created a music video by converting the light in those images...
Scientists discover rare planet at the edge of the Milky Way using space-time phenomenon predicted by Einstein
Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is only the third to be found on the outskirts of...
Farthest 'mini-halo' ever detected could improve our understanding of the early universe
Scientists have discovered the farthest-ever 'mini-halo,' a sea of charged particles around a distant galaxy cluster that could reveal unexpected insights about the ancient universe.
A cotton candy nebula glows in Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first close-up image: Space photo of the week
This spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.
'Never been seen before': First images from new ISS solar telescope reveal subtle 'fluctuations' in sun's outer atmosphere
NASA's new "CODEX" telescope has snapped its first photos of the sun's outer atmosphere, revealing previously imperceptible changes that could help scientists better predict potentially dangerous space weather events.
The Rubin Observatory found 2,104 asteroids in just a few days. It could soon find millions more.
The Rubin Observatory released its first magnificent images of the cosmos on Monday, June 23 — and included a special asteroid bonus.
ChatGPT could pilot a spacecraft shockingly well, early tests find
In a recent contest, teams of researchers competed to see who could train an AI model to best pilot a spaceship. The results suggest that an era of autonomous space...
Astronomers discover origins of mysterious double hot Jupiter exoplanets: 'It is a dance of sorts'
Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems that are "just right."
Rare snowfall in Atacama Desert forces the world's most powerful radio telescope into 'survival mode'
The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base camp last week.
2 'new stars' have exploded into the night sky in recent weeks — and both are visible to the naked eye
Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that simultaneous stellar explosions have been visible to the naked eye...
New ESA gravity mission to detect weakening ocean conveyor
At the Living Planet Symposium, attendees have been hearing how ESA’s Next Generation Gravity Mission could provide the first opportunity to directly track a vital ocean circulation system that warms...