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- May 31
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- Trump to withdraw Jared Isaacman's nomination as NASA chief
- SpaceX adds 27 Starlink satellites to constellation after successful launch from California (video)
- Aurora alert: Severe geomagnetic storm could spark northern lights as far south as Alabama and northern California tonight
- Blue Origin launches 1st New Zealander to reach space, 5 others on latest New Shepard suborbital flight (video)
- Venus is at its farthest from the sun on June 1: Here's how to see the bright 'morning star' this weekend
- Watch a brilliant 'fireball' meteor explode over China on May 28 (video)
- This Week In Space podcast: Episode 163 — The Trials of Starship
- Trump's 2026 budget would slash NASA funding by 24% and its workforce by nearly one third
- May 30
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- 'Cosmic miracle!' James Webb Space Telescope discovers the earliest galaxy ever seen
- Europe wants to land a tiny spacecraft on the infamous asteroid Apophis in 2029
- Why is the European Space Agency beaming a waltz at NASA's Voyager 1 probe this weekend?
- Climate scientists are hosting a 100-hour YouTube livestream in response to Trump's research funding cuts
- A fireball over desert mountains | Space photo of the day for May 30, 2025
- FAA requires SpaceX to investigate Starship Flight 9 mishap
- How to watch Blue Origin launch 6 tourists to suborbital space today
- Don't miss the crescent moon shining close to Mars on May 31
- Elon Musk says SpaceX will launch its biggest Starship yet this year, but Mars in 2026 is '50/50'
- Scientists found a possible new dwarf planet — it could spell bad news for Planet 9 fans
- Northern lights may be visible in these 20 US States May 31
- Astronomers discover black hole ripping a star apart inside a galactic collision. 'It is a peculiar event'
- Last chance! This brilliant 68% off Peacock TV subscription streaming deal ends today! Grab a year of sci-fi content and more for just $24.99
- SpaceX launches advanced GPS satellite for US Space Force in record-short turnaround
- May 29
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- 'One of the most geometrically perfect': What is this mysterious sphere deep in the Milky Way galaxy?
- SpaceX aiming for record-breaking 170 orbital launches in 2025
- See a lunar scar darken the crescent moon tonight
- Behind the camera: Astronauts talk with students from space station | Space photo of the day for May 29, 2025
- Dust devil on Mars photobombs NASA Perseverance rover's selfie (photo)
- Sampling a 'quasi-moon': What's next for China's newly launched Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling mission
- Meet the crew of Blue Origin's NS-32 space tourism mission launching on May 31
- Scientists capture never-before-seen plasma streams and bizarre 'raindrops' in sharpest-ever view of sun's outer atmosphere (video)
- Could time travel tourism be the next space tourism? (op-ed)
- Can we protect historical sites on the moon before it's too late?
- May 28
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- Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin targeting May 31 for 12th space tourism launch
- 'This is an attack on NASA.' Space agency's largest union speaks out as DOGE cuts shutter science institute located above 'Seinfeld' diner in NYC
- Astronomers discover mystery cosmic body bursting with X-rays: 'This object is unlike anything we have seen before'
- A 'smiley face' will appear in the night sky tonight: Here's how to see it
- SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites from Florida, lands rocket on ship at sea
- Rocket Lab launches private Earth-observing satellite to orbit (video)
- Photographer captures ghostly ripples over Colorado night sky. 'It is rare to see it directly overhead and moving like that' (photo)
- Noctilucent cloud season 2025 is upon us! Here's how to spot elusive 'night-shining' clouds
- China launches Tianwen 2 mission to snag samples of a near-Earth asteroid (video)
- Hurry! It's the last couple of days to get nearly 70% off a year of Peacock TV
- SpaceX reached space with Starship Flight 9 launch, then lost control of its giant spaceship (video)
- May 27
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- How to watch the 2025 Humans to the Moon & Mars Summit May 28 and 29 (video)
- JWST peers through a cosmic lens in 'deepest gaze' to date | Space photo of the day for May 27, 2025
- Manhattanhenge 2025: When, where and how to see New York's iconic sunset phenomenon tonight
- SpaceX launches fresh group of Starlink satellites from foggy Vandenberg Space Force Base, successfully lands booster (video)
- How to watch SpaceX's Starship Flight 9 launch and Elon Musk's Mars update today
- Best wide-angle camera lenses 2025: Discover the ideal wide-angle for your camera
- NASA satellites show Antarctica has gained ice despite rising global temperatures. How is that possible?
- Scientists worry Trump's budget cuts will halt satellite air pollution studies: 'It's incredibly short-sighted'
- See Jupiter pair up with a sliver of the moon tonight
- May 26
- May 25
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- China signs deal with Russia to build a power plant on the moon — potentially leaving the US in the dust
- Marvel delays 'Avengers: Doomsday' and 'Avengers: Secret Wars' by 7 months each
- New 8K-resolution photos of the sun show off incredible details of raging sunspots
- Scientists question possible signs of life on exoplanet K2-18b in new study: 'We never saw more than insignificant hints'
- May 24
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- SpaceX reveals why its Starship Flight 8 Ship exploded, failure traced to 'flash' in rocket's engines
- Who is the 'one who is lost' in 'Doctor Who' 'Wish World'?
- Scientists spot high-speed galaxy collision 11 billion light-years away: 'We hence call this system the cosmic joust'
- This Week In Space podcast: Episode 162 — Lunar Landing Day
- May 23
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- SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from California, completes 450th booster landing (video)
- What time is SpaceX's Starship Flight 9 launch today?
- Venus, Saturn and the moon dazzle at dawn in 'romantic' photo from Chew Valley Lake (photo)
- Lightning from above | Space photo of the day for May 23, 2025
- The moon doesn't have a magnetic field, so why does it have magnetic rocks?
- I search deals for a living and $230 off this DJI Mini 4 Pro combo might be the best Memorial Day drone deal out there
- 'Mickey 17' starts streaming on HBO Max today, and you absolutely need to watch this underrated sci-fi romp
- Why do the numbers that shape our universe exist at all?
- Best Memorial Day star projector deals — 6 big savings you can still get
- Netflix's snowy alien invasion series 'The Eternaut' is the sci-fi hidden gem of 2025
- 10 best Amazon Memorial Day deals still available — telescopes, star projectors, Lego Star Wars
- Best camera lenses 2025: The best lenses for photos and videos
- Private Japanese moon probe snaps photo of lunar south pole ahead of June 5 landing
- When lightning bolts collide, do they unleash powerful gamma-ray flashes?
- Could deciphering dolphin language help us communicate with ET?
- Japan tests its Mars moon sample-return probe ahead of 2026 launch (photo)
- May 22
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- NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab ending remote work policy for nearly 5,500 employees. 'Employees who do not return by their required date will be considered to have resigned.'
- Scientists find rare double-star system where one star orbited inside the other
- SpaceX gets FAA approval for Flight 9 of Starship megarocket
- From near to far, from here to there, Hubble sees galaxies everywhere | Space photo of the day for May 22, 2025
- Chinese astronauts add debris shield to Tiangong space station during 8-hour spacewalk (video)
- Virgin Galactic on track to start launching customers again in 2026, but seat prices will rise
- Mark Rocket, a former ambassador and more: Blue Origin reveals passengers for 12th space tourism launch
- The moon and Venus kick off Memorial Day weekend with a lovely conjunction early on May 23
- SpaceX cargo Dragon departs International Space Station, begins return journey to Earth
- No, solar storms didn't crash Spain's internet — but here's what they can do
- Astronomers want direct images of exoplanets. They may need 'quantum-level' tech to get them
- May 21
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- U.S. Space Force general to lead Trump's $175 billion Golden Dome space defense program
- Ax-4 private astronaut mission to the ISS is 'go' for its June 8 SpaceX launch
- Jupiter used to be twice as big as it is now — it could have held 2,000 Earths
- US military launches unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile on 4,200-mile test flight (video)
- New species of space-adapted bacteria discovered on China's Tiangong space station
- NASA legend Gene Kranz returns to mission control | Space photo of the day for May 21, 2025
- 'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' at 45: Stop-motion master Phil Tippett on creating the iconic Battle of Hoth (exclusive)
- Starfish Space's 'Otter' satellite will attempt 1st-ever commercial docking in low Earth orbit this year
- The physics of the universe appear to be fine-tuned for life. Why?
- Watch tile-shedding private Chinese rocket launch 6 satellites to orbit (video)
- Get a massive 68% off a year's subscription to Peacock TV ahead of the Memorial Day weekend
- See the crescent moon rise close to Saturn and Neptune early on May 22
- Perseverance rover rolls onto 'Crocodile' plateau on Mars to hunt for super-old rocks
- SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites to orbit on brand-new Falcon 9 rocket after abort (video, photos)
- May 20
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- Lightning on alien worlds may fail to spark life, simulations suggest
- Powerful Mother's Day geomagnetic storm created radio-disrupting bubbles in Earth's upper atmosphere
- NASA's X-59 jet takes 'flight' without leaving the ground | Space photo of the day for May 20, 2025
- House-size asteroid will miss Earth by just 72,000 miles today (video)
- The 100th woman in space: Emily Calandrelli talks about her Blue Origin flight and inspiring the next generation
- Why do dwarf galaxies line up? 'Zippers' and 'twisters' in the early universe may solve a galactic mystery
- 'We don't know how bad it could get': Are we ready for the worst space weather?
- Did Predator just harpoon a plane out of the sky? Oh, count us in for 'Predator: Killer of Killers' after this latest trailer (video)
- Take a closer look at the moon and galaxies with the SkyMaster 15x70 binoculars from Celestron: Now only $76!
- Geomagnetic storm named to honor space weather scientist who died suddenly in 2024
- May 19
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- Moon mining machine: Interlune unveils helium-3 harvester prototype (photo)
- SpaceX gets updated Starship launch license but still awaits Flight 9 approval
- James Webb Space Telescope discovers an alien planetary system's icy edge
- Our galaxy's swirling gases and magnetic lines create cosmic artwork in new simulation
- Watch China’s private Ceres-1 rocket launch 4 satellites from a ship at sea (video)
- Curious circles on Venus suggest its surface is still changing
- Portrait of a moon buggy | Space photo of the day for May 19, 2025
- Dark streaks on Mars may not come from water after all, scientists say
- 14,000 years ago, the most powerful solar storm ever recorded hit Earth. 'This event establishes a new worst-case scenario'
- The moon reaches its half-lit final quarter phase this week: Here's what to expect
- Chinese rocket dumps fuel over US to paint colossal white streak in the sky (photos)
- All about the abandoned Apollo capsule in 'The Last of Us' (Season 2, Episode 6)
- May 18
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- Venus Aerospace debuts potentially revolutionary rocket engine with landmark 1st flight (video)
- Not-so-clean rooms: Scientists discover 26 new microbe species in NASA spacecraft facility
- National Air and Space Museum to reveal more renovated galleries on July 28
- Amateur astrophotographer catches a cosmic sunflower in bloom
- Indian rocket launch fails, Earth-observation satellite lost (video)
- May 17
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- Who is the mysterious woman in the Doctor's 'The Interstellar Song Contest' visions?
- Every episode of Netflix's 'Love, Death + Robots' Volume 4, ranked
- The space doctors are in! Season 2 of Prime Video's 'The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy' gets a wacky new teaser and release date (video)
- Can we actually build a thriving economy on and around the moon?
- This Week In Space podcast: Episode 161 — The TWiS Comedy Hour!
- Watch India launch its 2nd space mission of the year tonight
- May 16
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- Black hole dance illuminates hidden math of the universe
- US Representatives worry Trump's NASA budget plan will make it harder to track dangerous asteroids
- Rocket Lab launches private Japanese Earth-observing satellite
- 'It's funny science fiction, but it's not parody' — 'Murderbot' creators talk nailing the tone for Apple TV+’s latest sci-fi series (exclusive)
- NASA continues building next-gen Roman Space Telescope despite budget worries
- From Leaping Leo to the Big Dipper: Here's how to see the bright stars of spring rising in the east this season
- ‘Exodus: The Archimedes Engine’ author Peter F. Hamilton talks building a brand-new sci-fi video game universe for Exodus (exclusive)
- Perseverance watches moonrise on Mars | Space photo of the day for May 16, 2025
- SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (video)
- NASA picks Rocket Lab to launch shoebox-sized Aspera space telescope in 2026
- Giant young star is growing by 2 Jupiter masses every year, new study shows
- This has to be the ultimate sci-fi streaming bundle for 2025 – Save 43% on a Disney Plus subscription bundle in this huge streaming deal
- Best model rocket deals 2025: Discounts on Estes, Revell and more ahead of Father's Day and Amazon Prime Day
- US and China need a space hotline for orbital emergencies, experts say
- Solar storms and cyberattacks can both cause blackouts. Knowing the difference could save billions of dollars
- Why scientists are so excited about the highest-energy 'ghost particle' ever seen
- May 15
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- Launch of Australia's 1st homegrown orbital rocket delayed indefinitely due to payload fairing issue
- Norway becomes 55th nation to sign NASA Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration
- NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years: 'These thrusters were considered dead'
- Eight feet keep PACE | Space photo of the day for May 15, 2025
- 'Why not a dolphin Jesus?' — 'Love, Death + Robots' creators talk us through this season's sci-fi episodes (exclusive)
- We finally have a premiere date for 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 3
- Is NASA ready for the Red Planet? US senator's 'Mission to MARS Act' aims to modernize Johnson Space Center
- Trump's proposed 2026 NASA budget cuts will cede our space 'position of leadership to other nations', top scientists say
- US Mint begins sales of $1 coin honoring innovative NASA space shuttle
- Amateur astronomer captures Cigar Galaxy and Bode's Galaxy swimming in a spectral nebula (photo)
- SpaceX's next private astronaut launch to ISS, Ax-4, delayed to June 8
- Perseverance Mars rover becomes 1st spacecraft to spot auroras from the surface of another world
- The latest 'Superman' trailer looks fantastic, but beware if spoilers are your kryptonite (video)
- NASA's PUNCH spacecraft see a cosmic rainbow in the zodiacal light
- Scientists calculate when the universe will end — it's sooner than expected
- May 14
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- Save 14% on Obi-Wan's Dark Series Force FX lightsaber, now at its lowest price this year
- Here's why the private Athena lunar lander toppled over on the moon
- Venus' crust is surprisingly thin. Could this explain why it's so geologically active?
- That's a hat trick! Varda successfully returns 3rd space capsule from orbit
- 'Alien: Earth' is almost ready to burst out, as FX reveals the release date, plot details, and shows off the cast
- Mars Sample Return now! (op-ed)
- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral, lands at sea (video)
- SpaceX will launch Starship's 9th test flight next week, Elon Musk says
- Astronaut sees 'Flower Moon' from orbit | Space photo of the day for May 13, 2025
- Volcanoes shaped the moon from the inside out, scientists find: 'Our team was genuinely puzzled'
- James Webb Space Telescope captures ghostly images of clouds on Saturn's largest moon Titan
- China is sharing priceless moon samples with international partners, but NASA can't be a part of it
- Australia's first ever home-grown orbital rocket set for debut launch May 15 after delay
- Strongest solar flare of 2025 erupts from sun, sparking radio blackouts across Europe, Asia and the Middle East (video)
- A spaceship moving near the speed of light would appear rotated, special relativity experiment proves
- After the Arecibo collapse in 2020, a lone NASA radar dish in the Mojave desert stepped up as a leading asteroid hunter
- May 13
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- SpaceX fires up Starship spacecraft again ahead of 9th test flight (video, photos)
- NASA's Europa Clipper probe snaps ghostly thermal portrait of Mars en route to Jupiter
- A tiny glass bead from the moon offers clues to its hidden interior
- Lanterns: Release window, plot, cast & everything we know about DC Studios' Green Lantern show
- He's the 17-time WWE world champion, but John Cena still can't get into the Justice League in the 'Peacemaker' season 2 trailer (video)
- China launches trio of Yaogan remote-sensing satellites to orbit (video)
- Live 4K video from space! See 24/7 views of Earth from the ISS via Sen cameras
- Watch the sun unleash 600,000-mile-long eruption in fiery outburst (video)
- Hubble captures 'candyfloss' clouds | Space photo of the day for May 13, 2025
- Watch red supergiant star Antares shine close to the near-full moon on May 13
- Modern-day alchemy! Scientists turn lead into gold at the Large Hadron Collider
- May's full Flower Moon delights skywatchers worldwide with stunning lunar display (photos)
- Trump's 2026 budget plan would cancel NASA's Mars Sample Return mission. Experts say that's a 'major step back'
- SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (video)
- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites to orbit on record-breaking 28th flight (video)
- May 12
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- Europe's Proba-3 satellites ace landmark formation-flying test (video)
- NASA turns the screams of a dying star into music
- Sensors designed to detect nuclear detonations can help track space debris falling to Earth
- 'Battlefield Earth' is Hollywood's most infamous sci-fi flick, but 25 years on, director Roger Christian remains proud of his work with Travolta (exclusive)
- 'Alien: Rogue Incursion' set to burst onto PS5 and PC this fall with non-VR 'Evolved Edition' (video)
- 'Marsquakes' reveal clues about a hidden body of water on Mars
- Watch flower-like antenna of European forest-watching satellite 'bloom' in space (video)
- Every 'Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld' episode, ranked from worst to best
- Vertical view of a very large telescope | Space photo of the day for May 12, 2025
- James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning images of bright auroras on Jupiter (video)
- Ancient zircon crystals shed light on 1 billion-year-old meteorite strike in Scotland
- Sci-fi cult classic 'Event Horizon' scares up a prequel comic series later this year and we can't wait
- NASA celebrated this employee's story of resilience, then tried to scrub it from the internet. Then fired her.
- The 2025 full Flower Moon rises tonight: Here's what to expect
- May 11
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- How do you keep reusable spacecraft cool during reentry? Make them 'sweat'
- Calling citizen scientists! Help NASA's Galaxy Zoo classify galaxies seen by James Webb Space Telescope
- 'Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld' producer talks bringing back Asajj Ventress and Cad Bane for Disney+ series (exclusive)
- Playmobil, ESA partner on toy starter pack for a space mission on the moon
- New Mexico's Spaceport America looks up and into the future
- I went to STARMUS La Palma for science and music — I came back in love
- May 10
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- The face looks familiar, but who's the other Time Lord in 'Doctor Who: The Story & the Engine'?
- Need for speed? Watch this thrilling video from historic Stratolaunch Talon-A2 hypersonic flight (video)
- Amateur astronomer reveals a colorful portrait of Earth's closest star-forming neighbor (photo)
- Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit
- This Week In Space podcast: Episode 160 — The Amazing Dr. Goddard
- It's been one year since the most intense solar storm in decades created worldwide auroras. What have we learned?
- SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (video)
- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Starlink satellites from California, lands on ship at sea (video)
- May 9
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- AI-dubbed Swedish sci-fi movie 'Watch the Skies' came about after the director had coffee and tarts with a local UFO chaser group (interview)
- President Trump nominates former Air Force colonel Matt Anderson to be NASA's deputy chief
- Doomed star circling supermassive black hole could be ripped apart in less than 6 years
- US military taps Rocket Lab’s new Neutron launcher for ‘point to point’ cargo test flight in 2026
- We finally have a release date for 'Foundation' season 3 on Apple TV+, thanks to this first-look trailer (video)
- Face to face with a galaxy | Space photo of the day for May 9, 2025
- Full 'Flower Moon' 2025 blooms on May 12: Here's where to look
- Hubble Telescope sees wandering black hole slurping up stellar spaghetti
- The US isn't prepared for a big solar storm, exercise finds
- Best solar telescopes 2025: Safely observe sun spots and solar eclipses
- See the world's largest iceberg stranded in the South Atlantic (satellite photo)
- Watch the moon and bright star Spica meet in a celestial dance on May 9
- Cosmic imposter bathes distant nebula in fiery red glow: 'This star should not be here'
- Failed Soviet Venus probe Kosmos 482 is expected to fall to Earth tonight, but when and where? Here's what we know
- May 8
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- China uses 'gravity slingshot' to rescue pair of wayward moon satellites
- A failed Soviet Venus probe is falling to Earth, and an astronomer will attempt to catch it on camera on May 9
- What will happen to VIPER? NASA shifts into reverse on canceled moon rover
- What the Soviet Venus Probe's fiery fall to Earth might look like: These past space junk crashes offer clues
- US Space Force test fires thrusters for moon surveillance spacecraft
- Satellites show 28 US cities are sinking, including NYC and Chicago: 'Infrastructure can be silently compromised'
- Astronaut Scott Kelly joins 'Mission Dry', stars in Goodnites underwear campaign film
- Planet hunter Plato gets its eyes | Space photo of the day for May 7, 2025
- Teenage drama is interrupted by extraterrestrial phenomena in this exclusive clip for 'Watch the Skies' (video)
- A stadium-sized asteroid will fly past Earth on May 9, and you can watch it live (video)
- Europe's space agency weighs fallout from proposed NASA budget cuts that could threaten joint missions
- Earth's skies pulse in sync with the sun's solar flares
- 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' returns to theaters later this year for 50th anniversary of Transylvanian aliens landing on Earth
- India delays 1st Gaganyaan astronaut launch to 2027
- Our moon may have once been as hellish as Jupiter's super volcanic moon Io
- May 7
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- 'Eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun': Elon Musk explains his drive to colonize Mars
- Hours before a solar eclipse, spruce trees 'talk' to each other
- NASA diagnoses fracture in a 'huge cosmic bone' using X-ray observatory
- Laurie Leshin stepping down as director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab
- 'Destiny 2' is getting four new expansions, including a 'Star Wars' crossover that adds lightsabers and blasters (video)
- James Webb Space Telescope finds water in the air of exotic 'sub-Neptune' exoplanet
- NASA gets keys to Orion spacecraft | Space photo of the day for May 7, 2025
- Old Soviet Kosmos 482 Venus lander's fall to Earth will be no ordinary space junk crash. Here's why
- Sun unleashes jaw-dropping filament eruption — but Earth dodges the blast (photo)
- 3D-print a realistic supernova remnant with NASA's new models of Chandra X-ray images
- Get closer to the Flower Moon with 27% off these SkyMaster 12x60 binoculars from Celestron
- Lunar laser: China makes 1st daytime laser-ranging measurement from Earth to the moon
- Belgian artist of 'Fallen Astronaut' figurine on the moon dies at 99
- Venus, Saturn and Neptune align in the predawn sky this week: Here's how to spot them
- 'Gears of War: Reloaded' chainsaws its way onto Xbox, PS5, and PC this summer, and everyone will be playing together
- Japan's Resilience moon lander arrives in lunar orbit ahead of June 5 touchdown
- Where does the universe's gold come from? Giant flares from extreme magnetic stars offer a clue
- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (video, photos)
- May 6
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- SpaceX gets FAA approval for 25 Starship launches per year
- Stratolaunch's Talon-A2 prototype goes hypersonic after dropping from world's largest airplane (photos)
- See what it's like to witness Earth's poles from space in this stunning 4-hour SpaceX video
- NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to lift off May 15 as Lego Icons model
- Asteroid Vesta could be a fragment of a solar system planet, but which one?
- Rooms and a view | Space photo of the day for May 6, 2025
- Lego and Lunar Outpost to roll out 'Moon Rover Space Vehicle' in August
- Yellowstone holds potentially untapped cache of 'carbon-free' helium for rockets, reactors and superconductors
- Eta Aquarid meteor shower 2025 delights stargazers around the world with dramatic shooting stars (photos)
- Going fast, this child-friendly Celestron Firstscope 76mm is under $58
- 'Right now, we are in what has to be a Golden Age of asteroid exploration.' Scientists celebrate NASA's latest space rock flyby
- May 5
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- NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket gets 2nd stage even as Trump tries to scrap Space Launch System (photos)
- 20 years ago, 'Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith' hit theaters... but 2 weeks earlier, the tie-in game had already spoiled the ending
- New US Space Force documentary 'Always Above' lands in planetariums
- Hubble spies a skewed spiral galaxy | Space photo of the day for May 5, 2025
- A giant crater on the moon may hold remnants of an ancient magma ocean. Artemis astronauts could bring home samples of it
- The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks tonight: Here's how to see fragments of Halley's comet burn up in the atmosphere
- What time is it on the moon? US House space committee wants a standard lunar clock
- Scientists chased a falling spacecraft with a plane to understand satellite air pollution
- May 4
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- 10 must-have 'Star Wars' books and novels coming soon to your galaxy
- This iconic 'Star Wars' Rebel pilot helmet from the Battle of Hoth could fetch $400K at auction
- 'Falcon' flies on Star Wars Day: SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from Florida (video, photos)
- What would it be like living on Tatooine from 'Star Wars'? This exoplanet orbiting twin suns could tell us
- For Star Wars Day, May the 4th, you'll have to use all your Jedi powers to grab this Lego set — Jango Fett's Starship WILL sell out fast
- Get everybody's favorite droid at its lowest-ever price for Star Wars Day!
- May 3
- May 2
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- James Webb Space Telescope finds coldest exoplanet ever seen, and it orbits a dead star
- SpaceX's Starbase becomes a new Texas city after landslide election
- Reshaping our return to the moon: Trump's 2026 budget gives Artemis a major facelift
- Experts alarmed as White House proposes 'largest single-year cut to NASA in American history'
- Look up! How to see the Eta Aquarid meteor shower 2025 peak overnight on May 5-6
- 'Borderlands 4' shows off new planet Kairos in gameplay deep dive, and it's coming a week earlier than we expected (video)
- Trump administration proposes slashing NASA budget by 24%
- Gaze at a cluster of glowing galaxies | Space photo of the day for May 2, 2025
- SpaceX fires up Starship spacecraft ahead of 9th test flight (photo)
- New JWST observations of 'trans-Neptunian objects' could help reveal our solar system's past
- DARPA wants a spacecraft to search for water on the moon
- New images of Soviet Venus lander falling to Earth suggest its parachute may be out
- NASA just got the Orion spacecraft that will fly astronauts around the moon on Artemis 2 in 2026
- See the moon and Mars buzz a cosmic Beehive this weekend
- This strange bacteria aligns to Earth's magnetic field and needs friends to survive
- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (photos)
- May 1
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- NASA still trying to revive silent Lunar Trailblazer moon orbiter
- NASA astronauts prep ISS for new solar arrays on 5th-ever all-female spacewalk
- FAA grounds Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket until failure investigation is complete
- Psyche spacecraft's sci-fi thrusters suffer glitch on way to metal-rich asteroid
- These 5000-year-old Egyptian coffins depict the Milky Way galaxy, astrophysicist says
- International Space Station fires thrusters to avoid Chinese rocket debris
- See Saturn and Venus flank ghostly Neptune in the pre-dawn sky on May 2
- ISS astronaut shares recipe for a 'ranger' burger | Space photo of the day for May 1, 2025
- Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart
- Asteroid Vesta is at its brightest this week. Here's how to find it in the night sky
- James Webb Space Telescope captures thousands of galaxies in a cosmic 'feast' (image)
- The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks May 6. Here's what to expect from the 'crumbs' of Halley's Comet
- Doubts over signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b are rising: 'This is evidence of the scientific process at work'
- Watch 2 NASA astronauts perform the 5th-ever all-female spacewalk today
