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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.

Calling citizen scientists! Help NASA's Galaxy Zoo classify galaxies seen by James Webb Space Telescope
By Samantha Mathewson published
Through a citizen science project called Galaxy Zoo, volunteers can help astronomers analyze over 500,000 James Webb Space Telescope images and classify galaxies observed from deep space.

It's been one year since the most intense solar storm in decades created worldwide auroras. What have we learned?
By Meredith Garofalo published
It's been one year since the historic Gannon Storm lit up the night sky with auroras and piqued interest in space weather. Here's what experts say we learned from the historic event.

Doomed star circling supermassive black hole could be ripped apart in less than 6 years
By Keith Cooper published
Every time this doomed star plunges through a supermassive black hole's accretion disk, it loses orbital energy and triggers a burst of X-rays.

Face to face with a galaxy | Space photo of the day for May 9, 2025
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is viewed face-on in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image that incorporates six different wavelengths of light.

Hubble Telescope sees wandering black hole slurping up stellar spaghetti
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its galaxy ripping a star to shreds — offering for the first time evidence of a rogue supermassive black hole in action.

The US isn't prepared for a big solar storm, exercise finds
By Tereza Pultarova published
A first-of a-kind space weather "tabletop" exercise has revealed major weaknesses in America's preparedness for major solar storms.

See the world's largest iceberg stranded in the South Atlantic (satellite photo)
By Samantha Mathewson published
A new image from Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite shows the huge Antarctic iceberg A-23A stuck 45 miles (73 kilometers) off the coast of South Georgia Island.
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