Skywatching

The Geminid meteor shower can produce over one hundred meteors per hour. In this photograph, the Geminid meteor shower is seen above the Kubuqi Desert of Inner Mongolia, China on Dec. 13, 2020.

Geminid meteor shower 2025: When, where and how to see one of the best meteor showers of the year

By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

Reference The Geminid meteor shower peaks the night of Dec. 13-14. Our guide tells you where and how to see them.

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Is an aurora cruise worth it? I joined Hurtigruten's Signature Voyage to find out

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

Sailing through Arctic Norway under the aurora, this voyage redefines what cruising and chasing the northern lights can really be.

Auroras
A swirling red nebula is pictured against a distant starfield

Astrophotographer spies an ancient supernova remnant shining in the wing of a cosmic swan (photo)

By Anthony Wood published

The Eastern Veil Nebula is part of a colossal supernova remnant known as the Cygnus Loop.

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Spaceflight

A close up grayscale image of the moon's surface with a white box showing where the Surveyor 6 spacecraft is

On this day in space! Nov. 17, 1967: 1st successful lift-off from lunar surface

By Hanneke Weitering, Elizabeth Howell last updated

On Nov. 17, 1967, NASA's Surveyor 6 spacecraft made the first liftoff from the lunar surface.

Launches & Spacecraft
a triple-core rocket blasts off under a sunny, partly cloudy blue sky. smoke expands below next to an obscured launch tower, near a long white hanger with SPACEX written on the side. To the left, a bird flies away.

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.

Launches & Spacecraft
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the Sentinel-6B ocean-monitoring satellite from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Nov. 17, 2025.

SpaceX launches used rocket for 500th time, sends Sentinel-6B ocean-mapping satellite to orbit (video)

By Mike Wall last updated

SpaceX launched the Sentinel-6B ocean-mapping satellite from California early Monday morning (Nov. 17) on a landmark flight — the company's 500th orbital mission with a used rocket.

Launches & Spacecraft
a white rocket booster stands upright on a barge

Watch Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket ace its epic landing on a ship at sea (video)

By Mike Wall published

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket just aced its second-ever mission — and returned to Earth safely for the first time. See a video of the booster's dramatic homecoming here.

Launches & Spacecraft
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 29 Starlink satellites from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 14, 2025.

SpaceX launches 2 rockets less than 4 hours apart from Florida's Space Coast (video)

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets in less than four hours overnight Friday (Nov. 14), adding another 58 satellites to its Starlink broadband megaconstellation.

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Science & Astronomy

A bright orange and pink and purple map showing various temperatures corresponding to various colors over an image of Hurricane Melissa with Cuba and Florida labeled

Satellite captures destructive power of Hurricane Melissa | Space photo of the day for Nov. 17, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

The image shows the difference in temperature between the top of a hurricane and the bottom.

Earth

What is the moon phase today? Lunar phases 2025

By Tariq Malik, Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

Reference See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025.

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Entertainment

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 186 — Snow on the Moon?

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 186 — Snow on the Moon?

By Space.com Staff published

On Episode 186 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Jim Green, NASA's former chief scientist, about snow on the moon.

Space Movies & Shows

Transformers movies in order: chronological & release order

By Fran Ruiz last updated

It's a prime time to watch all the Transformers movies in order, either chronological or by release date.

Space Movies & Shows
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What's Up In Space Today

Search For Life

Artist's conception of a protoplanetary disc around a newborn star. A new study suggests that our solar system formed from a cloud of dust and gas that was isolated from the broader galaxy for up to 30 million years.

Planets may make their own water as they form — could that mean more habitable worlds in the universe?

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

New lab experiments suggest that water may not be a rare visitor delivered by chance but rather a fundamental ingredient woven into the process of planetary birth.

Search for Life
A close up of a gray planet with various streaks and ditches in its surface.

Heat leaking from Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus bolsters its case as an abode for life

By Keith Cooper published

Excess heat detected at Saturn moon Enceladus' north pole helps to account for a finely balanced energy budget that keeps the moon's ocean liquefied. What could this mean in the search for life?

Search for Life
A white orange sphere representing the sun spews red and blue gas toward a gray small exoplanet

Powerful solar storms may help life get going on alien planets. Here's how

By Keith Cooper published

New observations of a volatile young star have shown how infant suns could unleash enough energy to trigger biologically relevant chemical reactions in an orbiting planet's atmosphere.

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Technology

A gingerbread-colored camel-like robot and a Darth Vader minifigure are on the right hand side of the screen with a droid-heavy advent calendar on the left, both are in front of an orange planet background.

Advent Calendar versus Gingerbread AT-AT: Which new Lego Star Wars set should you get for Christmas 2025?

By Alexander Cox published

Two new Christmas-themed Lego Star Wars sets are on the market, but which should you get this holiday season, the Advent calendar or the Gingerbread AT-AT?

Technology
The Star Wars logo is placed in the bottom right hand corner and the Marvel logo has some characters popping out of it in the top left, all on a blue planet background.

Star Wars versus Marvel: Which Lego logo set should you buy?

By Alexander Cox published

Two of the biggest franchises go head-to-head with these unique Lego sets — From cinematic history to lines of Lego, Star Wars and Marvel battle it out.

Technology
BioLite Dash 450 during the hands on review

BioLite Dash 450 headlamp review

By Tantse Walter published

Review BioLite continues to light up our world with the USB-C chargeable, IPX4-rated Dash 450.

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