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a raging river rushes through a hole in a dam

Satellites watch floods ravage Ukraine following dam collapse (photos)

By Brett Tingley published 6 June 23

Satellites watched as floodwaters ravaged southern Ukraine following the mysterious collapse of a major dam on Tuesday (June 6).

Earth

Creality CR-M4 review: Industrial size, quality, and price

By Will Zoobkoff published 6 June 23

If you need high-quality, large-scale printing at home, the enormous Creality CR-M4 is the printer you've been searching for.

Spaceflight

Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky shared this photo of the International Space Station on Twitter on Sept. 29, 2021. He and two colleagues were relocating a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from one port to another at the time.

International Space Station: Live updates

By Elizabeth Howell last updated 9 June 23

Find out what's going on at the International Space Station.

International Space Station

SpaceX Dragon breaks 2 space shuttle orbital records

By Mike Wall published 9 June 23

SpaceX's Dragon capsules have spent more time in orbit, and launched toward the International Space Station more often, than NASA's space shuttle fleet.

International Space Station

Science & Astronomy

a mostly red planet with shades of blue and green speckled throughout

See Mars like never before in this amazing new photo from a 20-year-old probe

By Robert Lea published 9 June 23

A new mosaic image released to celebrate 20 years of the Mars Express spacecraft shows the Red Planet as never seen before, revealing a multitude of features across its worn and scarred surface.

Mars

Artist's illustration shows a gray and cratered Mercury in the foreground and a bright glowing yellow sun in the background to the right.

Mercury: Facts about the closest planet to the sun

By Charles Q. Choi, Daisy Dobrijevic last updated 9 June 23

Reference Planet Mercury is the sun's nearest planetary neighbor. It has short years, long days, huge surface temperature fluctuations and really weird sunsets.

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Artist's illustration showing four Artemis astronauts exploring a site near the moon's south pole, with two rovers and a lander nearby..

Will Artemis astronauts look for life on the moon?

By Leonard David published 9 June 23

Astronauts on NASA's Artemis moon missions might look for signs of life in shadowed polar craters — life that could have traveled with people from Earth.

Moon

Illustration showing a small robotic probe nearing Venus, with the blackness of space in the background.

1st-ever private Venus mission delayed until at least 2025

By Robert Lea published 6 June 23

The Rocket Lab's pioneering private mission to Venus, which had been set to launch last month, has been delayed until at least 2025.

Venus

a man in a blue flight jacket stands in front of a map of Earth

UFOs worth investigating despite lack of 'real evidence,' former astronaut Scott Kelly says

By Brett Tingley published 2 June 23

Four-time astronaut Scott Kelly spoke with Space.com about UFOs and why air and space are so 'prone to optical illusions' that lead to reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena.

UFOs and Extraterrestrials

Skywatching

Watch the moon snuggle up to Saturn in the night sky late tonight

By Robert Lea published 9 June 23

Skywatchers can see the moon meet up with Saturn in the early hours of June 10 as the two bodies make a close approach in the night sky.

Moon

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Best zoom lenses 2023: Top performers on the market

By Dave Stevenson last updated 9 June 23

Buying Guide Our round-up of the best zoom lenses for Nikon, Sony, Canon and other cameras available right now.

Buying Guide

Night sky 11 app open on a smartphone in the author's hand

Night Sky 11 stargazing app review

By Lloyd Coombes published 8 June 23

Review Night Sky 11 is a stargazing app built on ease of use and a sense of wonder.

Review

Entertainment

Photo showing JAXA astronaut Naoko Yamazaki in an orange spacesuit next to some of the Nanoblock space series models she advised on.

Nanoblock reveals new space model kits created with astronaut's advice

By Robert Z. Pearlman published 9 June 23

An astronaut who helped assemble the International Space Station is now behind a series of space building projects that are on a very different scale. Naoko Yamazaki advised on Nanoblock's new kits.

Space Games

Still from the movie Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023). Here we see 5 Transformers standing together. From left to right, there is Optimus Prime (large blue and red robot that can turn into a truck), Optimus Primal (a robot gorilla with piercing green lights for eyes), and then the yellow Transformer Bumblebee. To the left there appear 2 other Transformers (a mechncialy bird in the sky and a blue blocky robot in the background.

Transformers movies in order: Chronological and release

By Fran Ruiz published 8 June 23

Get up to speed on all the Transformers movies released so far, both in chronological and release order, with our comprehensive guide.

'The Expanse' actor Cara Gee talks playing Drummer again in the upcoming The Expanse: A Telltale Series (Exclusive)

By Fenhua T. Augustus published 7 June 23

Interview Cara Gee took some time out of her busy belting schedule to talk to us about working on the upcoming The Expanse: A Telltale Series.

Interview

References

Mercury: Facts about the closest planet to the sun

By Charles Q. Choi, Daisy Dobrijevic last updated 9 June 23

Reference Planet Mercury is the sun's nearest planetary neighbor. It has short years, long days, huge surface temperature fluctuations and really weird sunsets.

Reference