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A photo of a lunar lander with a Chinese flag on it

1st samples ever collected from the moon's far side could help reveal where Earth got its water

By Keith Cooper published

On Earth, CI chondrites make up only 1% of all meteorites that have been collected, but they may be far more common on the moon.

The moon
A satellite image showing a large white hurricane headed toward green land in the left side of the image contrasted with the dark blue ocean

Satellites watch Category 5 Hurricane Melissa ahead of record-breaking landfall in Jamaica

By Meredith Garofalo published

Hurricane Melissa made a record-breaking landfall in Jamaica, and satellites are monitoring the situation.

Technology
A hexagonal white ring with thousands of bright dots inside on a dark background.

1st cosmic view from 4MOST looks pure sci-fi | Space photo of the day for Oct. 28, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

The 4MOST instrument on the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope has captured its first light.

Astronomy
The moon's disk is shown around its first quarter phase, with its right half lit by direct sunlight, and the left bathed in shadow to match the dark night sky behind.

See a colossal 'X' and 'V' appear on the moon after sunset tonight

By Anthony Wood published

Turn your telescope on the moon at sunset on Oct. 28 to see a colossal "X" and "V" form on the lunar surface as sunlight picks out broken terrain along the terminator.

Stargazing
Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky shared this photo of the International Space Station on Twitter on Sept. 29, 2021. He and two colleagues were relocating a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from one port to another at the time.

International Space Station: Live updates

By Space.com Staff last updated

Find out what's going on at the International Space Station.

International Space Station
Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov performs a spacewalk in support of science and maintenance on the International Space Station on Aug. 18, 2014.

Watch 2 Russian cosmonauts spacewalk outside the ISS today

By Mike Wall published

Cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky will conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (Oct. 28), and you can watch the action live.

International Space Station
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Oct. 27, 2025.

SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from California, lands rocket at sea

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink satellites today (Oct. 27), sending 28 of them up from California's central coast.

Launches & Spacecraft
A scene from Star Wars showing the Tatooine sunset(s).

Scientists discover 3 Earth-size exoplanets that may have double sunsets — like Tatooine in Star Wars

By Robert Lea published

Using NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter, astronomers have discovered a strange arrangement of exoplanets around tight binary stars that shouldn't be.

Exoplanets
Observations of Comet 3I/ATLAS taken using the Gemini South Observatory

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could help protect Earth from dangerous asteroids. Here's how

By Elizabeth Howell published

While interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will not come near our planet, future ones may. A new campaign seeks to improve orbit predictions.

Comets
A comet is pictured with a bright nucleus in the lower right of an image against the blackness of space, with a long tail extending diagonally to the upper right of the shot. A spiral or light is pictured, appearing to wrap around the comet and its tail, created by the trail of a passing meteor.

Glowing meteor trail photobombs Comet Lemmon in incredible telescope footage. 'A pure perspective miracle'

By Anthony Wood published

A meteor photobombed the patch of sky containing Comet Lemmon on Oct. 24, wrapping it in a glowing trail.

Stargazing
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