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Working on a 39-foot telescope dish | Space photo of the day for Sept. 10, 2025
By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published
Chile is a hotspot for telescopes peering up into deep space to study structures like stars, black holes, dark matter and galaxies.

Rocket launch today: Is there a rocket launch and what time?
By Josh Dinner, Tariq Malik last updated
Follow Space.com's rocket launch blog for the latest on when the next rocket launch will be and how to follow it live.

The weird ringed dwarf planet Quaoar may have an extra moon, astronomers discover
By Nola Taylor Tillman published
"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar."

Northern lights forecasts, alerts, and geomagnetic storm warnings - live updates
By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated
The latest aurora forecast for tonight help you make sure you're in the right place at the right time to see the northern lights.

SpaceX targets Sept. 23 for launch of NASA's IMAP mission to map the boundaries of our solar system
By Josh Dinner published
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on Sept. 23 will send three spacecraft a million miles from Earth to map the heliosphere and expand our understanding of space weather and atmospheric science.

Astronomers discover repeating gamma-ray burst 'unlike anything we have ever witnessed before' (video)
By Robert Lea published
A newly discovered gamma-ray burst is unlike any seen before, repeating over the course of a day rather than erupting in milliseconds, leaving astronomers perplexed by its origins.

Fossilized micrometeorites record ancient carbon dioxide levels
By Katherine Kornei published
A cadre of iron-rich extraterrestrial particles picked up faint whiffs of our planet's atmosphere when they fell to Earth millions of years ago.

'Directive 8020' is 'The Thing' in space, but is developer Supermassive Games biting off more than it can chew?
By Echo Apsey published
Directive 8020 is shaking up the Supermassive Games formula for better and for worse.
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