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March 26
- Deadly cyclone 'Freddy' may be the longest-lived and most energetic storm ever recorded
- The universe might be shaped like a doughnut, not like a pancake, new research suggests
- CNES astronaut Jean-Jacques Favier, 1st French scientist to fly in space, dies at 73
- On This Day In Space: March 26, 1958: US Army launches Explorer 3 satellite
- How is Data in 'Star Trek: Picard' if he died in 'Star Trek: Nemesis?'
- NASA selects solar physicist Nicola Fox as its new science chief
March 25
- Artificial intelligence could help hunt for life on Mars and other alien worlds
- How to watch Ceres, a dwarf planet 14 times smaller than Pluto, photobomb a spiral galaxy this weekend
- Indian rocket launches final 36 satellites for OneWeb's broadband constellation
- '65' star Adam Driver asks NASA about the asteroid threat to Earth (video)
- See the moon shine next to the Pleiades star cluster tonight (March 25)
- Alien mothership lurking in our solar system could be watching us with tiny probes, Pentagon official suggests
- Watch skyscraper-sized asteroid zoom near Earth tonight (March 25) in free livestream
March 24
- See the moon turn blood red in this stunning lunar eclipse video
- Uranus grows a smoggy cap while Jupiter's Red Spot keeps shrinking, Hubble telescope reveals (photos)
- Skywatchers enjoy surprise auroras as strongest solar storm in years hits Earth (photos)
- Boeing Starliner's 1st astronaut mission delayed to May at the earliest
- Blue Origin says it finally knows what caused its New Shepard rocket launch to fail last year
- Here's what the sky would look like if humans could see gamma rays (video)
- Pictures from space! Our image of the day
- NASA investigates veteran Mars orbiter to solve a missing fuel mystery
- Strongest solar storm in nearly 6 years slams into Earth catching forecasters by surprise
- Hubble telescope captures galactic jellyfish with bright tendrils of star formation (photo)
- When it comes to space, failure isn't just an option — it's a requirement
- Rocket Lab launches 2 satellites, returns booster to Earth after delay from surprise solar storm
- Want to see Uranus? The crescent moon points the way tonight (March 24)
- SpaceX launches 56 Starlink satellites, lands rocket on ship at sea
- Watch Rocket Lab launch 2 satellites, recover booster on March 24 after delay
March 23
- 'Star Trek: Picard' season 3 episode 6 beams in Trek cameos aplenty
- Perseverance rover snaps gorgeous shots of drifting predawn clouds on Mars (photos)
- Boom! Sierra Space blows up final inflatable space station module in initial test series (video)
- New moon glows with 'Earthshine' in incredible time-lapse photo series
- Potatoes are better than human blood for making space concrete bricks, scientists say
- Look up! See Venus shine next to the young moon tonight
- Astronomers urged to fight 'tooth and nail' to protect dark skies
- Earth is on track for devastating climate change if we don't act. These 5 weather disasters show what's to come.
- Space dust could carry alien life across the galaxy, study suggests
- Make the Kessel Run for $100 less with this Lego Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcon deal
- 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Trivia Night warps into action from CBS and Paramount Plus on March 24
- Stunning Hubble telescope photo reveals star-studded M55 cluster
- Supermassive black hole's relativistic jets are blowing bubbles in the Teacup Galaxy
- UAE's 1st long-duration astronaut marks the start of Ramadan in space
- Relativity Space launches world's first 3D-printed rocket on historic test flight, but fails to reach orbit
March 22
- Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 48th flight on the Red Planet
- US Space Force wants to test how to build satellites in orbit with $1.6 million Arkisys deal
- Skyscraper-size asteroid will get closer to Earth than the moon on March 25
- Sorry, E.T. fans: Interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua isn't an alien spacecraft. It's just passing gas.
- 5 planets will align on March 27 and you won't want to miss it. Here's where to look.
- A colossal 'hole' in the sun's atmosphere could supercharge Earth's auroras on March 24
- Virgin Orbit restarts operations with 'small' team as it works on finance deal: reports
- What is a UFO? The US shot down three mysterious objects as interest and concern increase over unidentified craft
- James Webb Space Telescope spies hot, gritty clouds in skies of huge exoplanet with 2 suns
- Fly over Perseverance rover's Mars stomping grounds in new video
- See the moon and Jupiter meet in the sky tonight (March 22)
- The Mandalorian season 3 episode 4 review: Saving the next generation
- Watch Relativity Space launch world's 1st 3D-printed rocket on March 22
- This mysterious streak of light over California is actually an old space station antenna meeting its doom (video)
- Sea level rise slowed down in 2022. NASA says it's just a blip
March 21
- Artemis 2 moon rocket coming together ahead of 2024 astronaut launch (photo)
- South Korean probe's NASA moon camera illuminates dark lunar crater (photo)
- Watch likely Chinese rocket body burn up over Texas (video)
- Spectacular SpaceX video shows Earth as beautiful blue marble in blackness of space
- World must act now to defuse 'climate time bomb,' UN scientists warn
- New 'Star Wars Jedi: Survivor' trailer shows off breathtaking lightsaber combat (video)
- Big asteroids hit Earth more frequently than thought, study suggests
- DART mission reveals asteroid Dimorphos is dry as a bone
- Private Japanese moon lander reaches lunar orbit
- Building block of life found in sample from asteroid Ryugu
- Watch Jupiter meet the moon and Mercury this week before leaving the night sky
- Mysterious radio signal reveals intricate core of distant galaxy cluster
- Spot dwarf planet Ceres during the new moon tonight
- Astronauts that hibernate on long spaceflights is not just for sci-fi. We could test it in 10 years.
- Huge solar tornado as tall as 14 Earths hurls plasma cloud into space. Here's the video.
March 20
- NASA climate change satellite back online after instrument shutdown
- Two moons of Uranus may have active subsurface oceans
- Win a free copy of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 in this Facebook giveaway!
- How much water lurks beneath an exoplanet's surface? New tool could help astronomers tell
- 1st map of moon water could help Artemis astronauts live at the lunar south pole
- Virgin Orbit eyes options as it works to generate cash flow: report
- Bad news for alien life? Even calm red dwarf stars rage more violently than the sun
- William Shatner reflects on his new film, 'Star Trek,' space travel and not attending Leonard Nimoy's funeral
- Hubble Space Telescope spies 'irregular' spiral galaxy in Ursa Major (photo)
- Monster black hole may have killed this galaxy's star-forming power, James Webb Telescope reveals
- Vernal equinox 2023 brings spring to the Northern Hemisphere with a not-so-equal timing twist
- This epic NASA map shows where to see US solar eclipses in 2023 and 2024 (photos)
March 19
- The early universe was crammed with stars 10,000 times the size of our sun, new study suggests
- Equinox on March 20 means more stunning auroras are coming. Here's why
- Surprising newfound ocean bacteria could aid search for alien life
- Rolls-Royce gets funding to develop miniature nuclear reactor for moon base
- Women's History Month: Retired NASA astronaut Janet Kavandi brings inclusion to Sierra Space missions
March 18
- Europe's exoplanet-hunting CHEOPS mission extended through 2026
- New children's book celebrates pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell
- Watch the moon meet up with Saturn in the pre-dawn sky tonight
March 17
- Chinese scientists hold out hope for silent Zhurong Mars rover
- SpaceX launches 52 Starlink satellites, lands rocket at sea
- Exoplanets, dark matter and more: Big discoveries coming from James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers say
- 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 1 warps onto Blu-ray and we've got an exclusive clip
- Newly discovered 'mini-Neptune' may have an ocean or an atmosphere - but not for long
- SpaceX now eyeing April for Starship's 1st orbital launch, Elon Musk says
- China's 1st liquid-fueled rocket moved to launch pad for liftoff this month
- NASA's Parker Solar Probe makes its 15th close flyby of the sun this St. Patrick's Day
- Possible Artemis 3 moon landing site spied by NASA spacecraft (photos)
- NASA selects Firefly Aerospace for mission to moon's far side in 2026
- NASA asteroid sample return mission to land on U.S. postage stamp
- SpaceX launches 2 rockets less than 5 hours apart
March 16
- Scientists discover signs of 'modern' glacier on Mars that hints at buried water ice
- Watch a small asteroid fly by Earth closer than the moon tonight in this free livestream
- Maple leaf to the moon: Canadian Space Agency debuts new logo
- Student-led 'beach ball' space antenna aims to boost cubesat communications
- Solving space junk problem may require lasers and space tugs, NASA says
- Asteroid feared to hit Earth in 2046 will almost certainly miss, NASA says
- Virgin Orbit pauses operations while it looks for funding
- Exclusive: NASA astronaut Mae Jemison stars in Disney+ episode of 'Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur'
- Jupiter moon Europa's buried ocean may alter rotation of its icy shell
- SpaceX delivers new science experiments to ISS to explore origins of life on Earth
- 'Star Trek: Picard' season 3 episode 5 features the brief return of another 'TNG' favorite
- Orion constellation goes from hunter to hunted in the March night sky
- SpaceX Dragon cargo ship arrives at space station with NASA supplies
- Great telescope deal: The Celestron Travelscope 60 is under $40
- Active volcano spotted on Venus. The planet's not dead yet.
- New Horizons Pluto probe notches 3 new discoveries in outer solar system
March 15
- 1st Artemis spacesuits to be worn on the moon will not return to Earth
- Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May knighted by King Charles III
- Faint gravitational waves may be from primordial fractures in space-time
- 1st Native American woman astronaut wants the world to 'share in that joy' after SpaceX Crew-5 flight
- Axiom Space targeting November 2023 for 3rd private astronaut mission to space station
- Sun spews 'dark plasma' into space from its far side
- Save $310 on this Nikon Z5 camera and accessories bundle
- NASA's new air pollution sensor will monitor smog above America in real time
- Axiom Space reveals prototype spacesuit for Artemis astronauts on the moon
- UFO-shaped clouds invade skies over Keck Observatory in Hawaii (photos)
- Save $300 on the Meade 16MP Monochrome Deep Sky Imager IV
- The Mandalorian season 3 episode 3 review: A fun diversion that actually makes sense
- China launches 2nd Horus remote-sensing satellite for Egypt (video)
- Gamma Normid meteor shower peaks on March 15 for the southern hemisphere
- Suspected US hypersonic missile test launch from Cape Canaveral scrubbed
March 14
- 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' is now the most celebrated sci-fi film in Oscar history
- James Webb Space Telescope spots huge star about to go supernova (video, photos)
- SpaceX's Starship has 50% chance of success on 1st orbital flight, Elon Musk says
- Axiom Space to reveal Artemis 3 moonwalking spacesuits today. Here's how to watch it live.
- UK launches Space City Leicester to push into the final frontier
- 'Silo' explores post-apocalyptic life underground in new Apple TV+ series (trailer)
- Scientists hail DART success 6 months after historic asteroid crash
- Stunning plasma-winged 'butterfly' coronal mass ejection erupts from the sun's far side
- One of the best binoculars for kids on sale now just $30 with this half-price saving
- Liftoff on Mars! Perseverance rover captures amazing video of Ingenuity helicopter flight
- International Space Station fires thrusters to dodge space junk
- Chinese rocket stage crashes to Earth over Texas
- China's Zhurong Mars rover reveals seasonal wind changes in Red Planet weather report
- International Space Station: Live updates
- How astronauts could farm on the moon with lunar soil nutrients
- Watch the half-lit last quarter moon rise tonight
- Pi Day turns 35: The circle of mathematics needs more diversity, advocates say
- Silicon Valley Bank collapse ripples across space industry
- SpaceX launches fresh Dragon cargo ship to space station, lands rocket at sea
March 13
- 'Guardians of the Galaxy #1' blasts off with brash new trailer and variant covers
- 'Khan!!! The Musical!' is a wacky 'Star Trek' adaptation best served live Off-Broadway
- NASA wants new 'deorbit tug' to bring space station down in 2030
- Sorry, Spock, but planet Vulcan's real-life doppelgänger doesn't exist
- 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' takes home 7 Oscars, including Best Picture
- Here's the devastating impact a super-Earth would have on our solar system
- More lunar missions means more space junk around the moon. Two scientists are building a catalog to track the trash.
- China launches pair of mysterious Earth-mapping satellites (video)
- Double trouble! Two pairs of giant black holes spotted on collision course
- Europe's 1st ever Jupiter mission in 'home straight' ahead of April launch
- Watch 'kissing' planets Venus and Jupiter go their separate ways in night sky
- Radio telescope on moon's far side will peer into universe's 'Dark Ages'
- Watch NASA discuss its 2024 federal budget request today
March 12
- See the moon in the grip of the Scorpion's claws tonight
- 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko' reveals untold history of Starfleet’s fearless war captain (exclusive)
- No, the moon phase can't help find your soulmate on TikTok
- Russia looking into possibility of manufacturing defect on leaky spacecraft
- SpaceX Crew-5 and Crew-6 astronaut mission: Live updates
- SpaceX Dragon capsule splashes down with Crew-5 astronauts after 157 days in space
March 11
- Relativity Space aborts launch of Terran 1, the world's first 3D-printed rocket, twice in 1 day
- ULA rolls 1st Vulcan Centaur rocket to launch pad for testing (photos)
- Read a revealing Doug Jones interview excerpt from the new issue of 'Star Trek Explorer' (exclusive)
- Rocket Lab launches 2 satellites to orbit on 2nd Electron mission from US soil
- Hunt for alien biosignatures in 'Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life' on PC
- Watch SpaceX's Crew-5 astronauts return to Earth from space station in this webcast
March 10
- Mercury re-rising: Stoke Space to balance past and future at historic Florida launch pad
- NASA's Ingenuity helicopter captures breathtaking shot of Martian sunset (photo)
- Say goodbye to winter stars and watch the night sky transition to spring this month
- Boom! Japanese astronomer catches meteorite smashing into the moon (video)
- NASA, SpaceX eyeing March 14 for resupply launch to space station
- Hubble Space Telescope images increasingly affected by Starlink satellite streaks
- Earth spouts 'biosignatures' into space, hinting that other life-bearing worlds may do the same
- 'Starfield' release date confirmed! Bethesda's epic space game launches Sept. 6
- A comet coming in 2024 could outshine the stars - if we're lucky
- Newly discovered asteroid the size of a swimming pool has a 1-in-600 chance of colliding with Earth, NASA says
March 9
- ULA targets May for debut launch of new Vulcan Centaur rocket
- NASA scientists push for a treaty to tackle risky 'space junk'
- NASA to reveal Artemis 2 moon astronauts on April 3
- Strange circular dunes on Mars spotted in these NASA photos
- 'Missing link' protostar may prove solar system's water is older than the sun
- Wormholes might bend light like black holes do — and that could be the key to finding them
- NASA gets $27.2 billion in White House's 2024 budget request
- 'Women in Spaceflight' VR experience launches to celebrate female astronauts
- 'Star Trek: Picard' season 3 episode 4 is fun, but not at the warp caliber we've seen so far
- See the night sky shine with ghostly zodiacal light this month
- NASA chief to give 'State of NASA' address today. Here's how to watch it live.
- Antarctic sea ice hits record low, satellites reveal
- Save $70 on the Meta Quest 2 VR headset and get two free games
- SpaceX launches 40 OneWeb internet satellites to orbit, lands rocket
March 8
- International Women's Day: Female astronauts keep making strides off Earth
- Relativity Space scrubs debut launch attempt of world's 1st 3D-printed rocket after abort
- International Space Station fires thrusters to avoid collision with satellite
- US Space Force grants 4 companies launch pads at Cape Canaveral
- SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts hope to leave space station March 9 as NASA watches weather
- One-of-kind Barbie dolls honor citizen astronaut, space scientist as role models on International Women's Day
- Shockwaves rocking the 'cosmic web' connecting galaxies seen for the 1st time
- Swatch debuts Moonshine Gold-touched MoonSwatch, limited by the full moon
- NASA and Minecraft want you to build and launch rockets in new Artemis missions worlds
- Lagoon Nebula shines in gorgeous new Hubble image
- New VR game 'Journey to Foundation' channels galactic chaos of Asimov novels
- Full Worm Moon, the last full moon of winter 2023, looks stunning in photos from around the world
- The Mandalorian season 3 episode 2 review: Diving headfirst into Manda-lore
- Watch Relativity Space abort the launch of Terran 1, world's 1st 3D-printed rocket, on second try
- James Webb Space Telescope spots galaxy from early universe rich in star formation
March 7
- Rare black hole 1 billion times the mass of the sun could upend our understanding of galaxy formation
- NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft aced moon mission despite heat shield issue
- Russians will fly on SpaceX's Crew-7, Crew-8 astronaut missions: report
- The big reveal: What's ahead in returning samples from Mars?
- Carina Nebula twinkles in gorgeous new view from Hubble (photo)
- UAE's 1st long-duration astronaut sets sights on moon and Mars
- NASA's Mars rover Curiosity sees dazzling 'sun rays' over Red Planet
- China builds huge propellant tank for massive future rocket (photos)
- Bring historic NASA missions to your fingertips with new ORLY nail polishes
- Dark energy could lead to a second (and third, and fourth) Big Bang, new research suggests
- Alien & Star Trek fandoms forged the world of new space game Scars Above
- Russia's war on Ukraine has caused lasting damage to international spaceflight cooperation
- Don't miss March's Full Worm Moon in the sky tonight
- Japan's new H3 rocket fails on 1st test flight, advanced Earth observation satellite lost
March 6
- NASA's IBEX spacecraft bounces back from glitch to study edge of solar system
- Melting ice cores on frozen worlds could speed up the search for alien life
- 'Star Trek: Discovery' will come to a close with Season 5 in 2024
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission: Live updates
- X-rays reveal how 450-year-old Tycho supernova became a giant cosmic particle accelerator
- Asteroids may have picked up building blocks of life from interstellar clouds
- Bright new comet discovered zooming toward the sun could outshine the stars next year
- Watch the Full Worm Moon rise in free telescope webcast on March 7
- Save 20% on the Lego Star Wars Mandalorian's N-1 Starfighter
- Lego Star Wars deals 2023: savings on vehicles, ships, helmets and more
- In designing 'Hello Tomorrow!' on Apple TV+, Maya Sigel shoots for the moon (exclusive)
- This former NASA astronaut steered a space shuttle to safety after overcoming gender discrimination
- James Webb Space Telescope 'sees triple' with help from Einstein (photos)
March 5
- 'Star Wars: The High Republic' gets lavish illustrated guide from Insight Editions (exclusive)
- This fantastic trailer for retro-future game 'The Invincible' aims for the stars (video)
- I drove a rover on a moon-like landscape and felt like an Apollo astronaut (video)
- Chinese carmaker to launch 72 satellites to assist intelligent driving
- China and France prepare to launch satellite to hunt for gamma-ray bursts
March 4
- SpaceX Crew-6 mission's approach to space station captured in breathtaking video
- Watch NASA test fire new and improved Artemis moon rocket engine (video)
- The sounds of Kerbal Space Program 2: How an emotional real-life rocket launch transformed the game
- Wonder at the colorful Orion nebula in the southwestern sky throughout March
- Sun unleashes powerful X2-class flare (video)
March 3
- Blue Origin still investigating New Shepard failure 6 months later
- Gorgeous auroral glow surprises astrophotographer in California's Death Valley
- Japan to make 2nd launch attempt of new H3 rocket today after delay. How to watch it live.
- Astra rocket lost 2 NASA satellites due to 'runaway' cooling system error
- Earth's mysterious innermost core is a 400-mile-wide metallic ball
- Europe's Vega C rocket launch failure caused by nozzle flaw, investigators say
- Here's how to catch up on The Mandalorian according to its showrunner
- China's Shenzhou 15 astronauts perform 2nd spacewalk and 1st 'fire in space' test (video)
- China selects mystery astronauts for 2023 missions to Tiangong space station
- SpaceX Crew 6 liftoff lights up the sky in stunning photos
- Flash sale: SkySafari 7 astronomy app is up to 60% off on app stores
- Designing a drone that can search for life on other planets
- A Chinese spacecraft has been checking out US satellites high above Earth
March 2
- See Jupiter and Venus dance across the twilight sky in this amazing photo collage
- Moon-dust shield could help fight climate change on Earth
- Mars helicopter Ingenuity soars between Red Planet airfields on 46th flight
- 'Star Trek: Picard' season 3 episode 3 heats things up between Jean-Luc and Riker
- Artemis astronauts may be able to spray away sticky moon dust
- UAE astronaut mascot 'Suhail' flies again as SpaceX Crew-6 zero-g indicator
- SpaceX’s sunset Starlink launch was amazing, and here are the pictures to prove it
- Apollo 'hook-up:' New keychain replicates carabiner used on the moon
- SpaceX gearing up to launch 2 private astronaut missions
- SpaceX's Crew-6 astronauts arrive at space station after hour-long delay
- Lego has revealed a new Executor Super Star Destroyer set and it looks fantastic
- Retro 51 pen embodies NASA's first and fallen space shuttle Columbia
- NASA hails SpaceX's 'beautiful' Crew-6 astronaut launch
- SpaceX launches Crew-6 astronaut mission to space station for NASA
March 1
- Auroras, spacecraft mods and more: SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts reflect on their time in orbit
- Don't miss Venus and Jupiter shine super close in the night sky. They won't be closer until 2032!
- Slam! Hubble sees strange changes in asteroid dust after DART collision (video)
- Does the moon need its own time zone? We may need to decide soon
- The amazing auroras of February 2023 are a visual feast for stargazers (photos)
- Astronomers catch rare glimpse of oldest known supernova, which dates back to Year 185
- DART's epic asteroid crash: What NASA has learned 5 months later
- SpaceX 'go' to launch Crew-6 astronauts for NASA on March 2 after rocket review
- European Union to build its own satellite-internet constellation
- Venus and Jupiter get so close they nearly 'kiss' in the night sky tonight. Here's how to see it.
- The Mandalorian season 3 episode 1 review: A breezy set-up for things to come
- Watch Venus and Jupiter come close to each other tonight and tomorrow in live webcasts
- Venus grade: NASA seeks a lander battery tough enough to survive Earth's evil twin