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Russian Progress 93 freighter launched toward the International Space Station on the MS-32 mission today (Sept. 11), loaded with 2.8 tons of cargo for the station's astronaut crew.

Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new laboratory experiments.

The James Webb Space Telescope caught the birth of an enormous star with particle beams cutting across a stretch of interstellar space.

One of SpaceX's broadband-beaming Starlink satellites has been captured overflying a top-secret airbase in China that was photographed by a private American Earth-observation satellite.

The ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award 2025 will be streamed live online on Sept. 11.

Don't let light pollution put you off stargazing or astrophotography, I managed to see galaxies, nebulas and star clusters all in Bortle 7 and 8 class night skies.

Telepathy, good vs evil, heroes fulfilling their destiny… If the "Strange New Worlds" finale 'New Life and New Civilizations' isn't fantasy, it isn't far off.

Though NGC 7456 looks like a modest spiral galaxy, new Hubble and XMM-Newton observations reveal a bustling system with star-forming regions and an active core.

We'll likely need to get Perseverance's samples to Earth to determine if they do indeed harbor evidence of Mars life — but the prospects of such a mission are cloudy at best.

The next lunar eclipse will be overnight on March 2-4, 2026.