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A bright comet with a long tail is pictured against a starry sky above rolling grassy hills. Shrubs are visible and an outcrop of trees are silhouetted against a pink glow in the sky close to the horizon.

Comet Lemmon's ghostly tail haunts the skies above England (photo)

By Anthony Wood published

Photographer Josh Dury has captured a gorgeous view of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) brightening the skies above the UK as it nears planet Earth.

Stargazing
A giant metal cylinder hovers above a sea in front of a blue sky.

Watch SpaceX's Super Heavy Starship booster hover in mid-air before plunging into the sea (video)

By Josh Dinner published

SpaceX video from Starship's Oct. 13 launch shows the rocket's Super Heavy booster hovering over the gulf before its dive into the deep.

Launches & Spacecraft
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 Space.com Staff last updated

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

International Space Station
A gray scale image showing a labeled "dune crest" at the edge of a Martian gulley with wind patterns showing the geology of the formation.

Dry ice may burrow through Mars like sandworms in 'Dune'

By Samantha Mathewson published

Blocks of carbon dioxide ice appear to carve mysterious gullies on Mars as they melt down dune slopes and blast away sand.

Mars
The Chinese company Orienspace's Gravity-1 rocket launches for the second time ever, lifting off from a ship on Oct. 10, 2025.

Watch the 2nd-ever launch of China's record-breaking Gravity-1 rocket (video)

By Mike Wall published

The Chinese company Orienspace's Gravity-1 solid rocket launched for the second time ever on Oct. 10, sending three satellites to orbit from the deck of a ship.

Launches & Spacecraft
A series of people stand around a large space station in a giant warehouse

Vast gearing up to launch its Haven-1 private space station in 2026

By Andrew Jones published

Vast's Haven-1 is poised to become the first privately built space station, marking a turning point in the post-International Space Station era.

Human Spaceflight
An artist’s impression of a tidal disruption event, where a star gets too close to a black hole and is torn apart, its debris forming an accreting disk of material around the black hole.

Rule-breaking black hole destroys star in puzzling way: 'This is truly extraordinary'

By Keith Cooper published

The so-called tidal disruption event also produced two puzzling delayed outbursts.

Black Holes
a cube-shaped spacecraft with two wing-like solar panels covered in silver foil

Watch Europe's upcoming PLATO exoplanet hunter spread its 'wings' (video)

By Elizabeth Howell published

PLATO powered up and extended its solar panels as the exoplanet-hunting spacecraft readies for launch as soon as December.

Launches & Spacecraft
The Lego Star Wars Logo on blue planet backdrop with Space.com logo.

This Lego Star Wars set is an awesome recreation of the iconic movie logo and is now at its lowest ever price

By Paul Brett published

Deals A brilliant focal point for any Star Wars Lego collection, this 700-piece set has a 20% saving in this Amazon deal.

Deals
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches NOAA's GOES-U weather satellite on June 25, 2024.

On this day in space! Oct. 16, 1975: NASA launches 1st GOES weather satellite

By Hanneke Weitering last updated

On Oct. 16, 1975, NASA launched the first operational GOES satellite!

Launches & Spacecraft
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