Skywatching

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Night sky for tonight: Visible planets, stars and more in this evening's sky

By Jamie Carter last updated

Find out what you can see in the night sky for tonight, from planets and stars to dazzling meteor showers.

Stargazing

Northern lights forecasts, alerts, and geomagnetic storm warnings - live updates

By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

The latest aurora forecast for tonight help you make sure you're in the right place at the right time to see the northern lights.

Auroras

I tried to image the Veil Nebula but accidentally got an 'Alien' Xenomorph (photo)

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

As 'Alien: Earth' hits screens, the night sky delivers a cameo from the franchise's iconic villain.

Stargazing
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Spaceflight

NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission crew teaser with four astronauts in spacesuits.

NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission: Live updates

By Tariq Malik last updated

NASA's Artemis 2 mission is returning astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972. See live mission updates here.

Artemis
a man in a black short sleeve shirt and a blue headband floats inside a space station module cluttered with science equipment

Astronaut trades meditation for starry sky views in orbit | On the International Space Station Aug. 11-15, 2025

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

The members of Expedition 73-"B" settle in and get busy conducting science research on board the International Space Station.

International Space Station
Graphic illustration with 'space calendar' in large blue neon letters and 2025 below it in smaller white letters. Below the title are four neon images depicting a meteor or comet, a telescope, a rocket launch and an astronaut's helmet. There is a starry background to the entire image.

Space calendar 2025: Rocket launches, skywatching events, missions & more!

By Space.com last updated

Reference Keep up with all the rocket launches, astronomical events and mission milestones for 2025 with our space calendar.

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An abundant harvest produced in the EDEN ISS greenhouse that tests technologies for growing food in space.

Was it cooked in space? A space food-themed quiz!

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

In this quiz, you’ll explore the weird, wonderful, and sometimes surprising world of space cuisine. Can you tell which foods have actually made it to orbit?

Human Spaceflight
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Trump signs executive order to boost commercial space — and shift NASA's balance of power

By Josh Dinner published

The executive order directs multiple federal agencies to streamline launch licensing, fast-track spaceport construction and better support emerging in-space industries.

Space Exploration
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Science & Astronomy

An illustration of a black hole represented by a sphere with swirls of purple and brown light around it representing its accretion disk as it sits in the darkness of space

X-ray telescope finds something unexpected with the 'heartbeat black hole'

By Samantha Mathewson published

Unexpected X-ray polarization challenges long-held ideas about how black holes behave.

Black Holes

Whose moon is it anyway? A matching space quiz

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

In this quiz, you’ll test your cosmic knowledge by matching each moon to the planet it calls home.

Solar System
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Space Photo of the Day

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Entertainment

Every original 'Star Trek' character who has appeared in 'Strange New Worlds'

By Richard Edwards published

Going boldly where someone has gone before! The "Star Trek" prequel series is overflowing with characters who debuted in the 1960s.

Space Movies & Shows
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 172 — Earth on Mars

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 172 — Earth on Mars

By Space.com Staff published

On Episode 172 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest host Rick Jenet are joined by Erika Alden DeBenedictis to discuss how terraforming Mars might work.

Space Movies & Shows
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What's Up In Space Today

Search For Life

Three different size circles going from large to small from left to right, with the largest being marbled light green, the middle being a marbled blue-green and the right being a dark blue marbled with water drops.

Is water really a necessary ingredient for life? Aliens may swim in truly exotic pools

By Stefanie Waldek published

A new study finds that liquids other than water might be able to support life on worlds beyond Earth, potentially expanding the envelope of life throughout the cosmos.

Search for Life
The planet-birthing disk around V883 Orionis with frozen complex molecules in its outer region

Is life widespread throughout the cosmos? Complex organic molecules found in planet-birthing disk

By Robert Lea published

Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it have been discovered in a disk of gas and dust swirling around an infant star.

Search for Life
This artist’s illustration shows the planet K2-18 b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. K2-18 b is now the only super-Earth exoplanet known to host both water and temperatures that could support life.

Nearby super-Earth K2-18 b may be a water-rich ocean planet: 'This has certainly increased the chances of habitability'

By Robert Lea published

The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K2-18b remain unconfirmed, the JWST has found the planet could be a water-rich ocean world.

Search for Life
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Technology

Tiny devices propelled by sunlight could explore a mysterious region of Earth's atmosphere

By Tereza Pultarova published

"Being able to send something out there would enable us to take a lot more precise data than we currently can."

Technology
a cube-shaped spacecraft with two long wing-like solar panels in orbit above earth

NASA wants new spacecraft to reach 'difficult-to-reach orbits' around Earth and in deep space

By Elizabeth Howell published

NASA has awarded $1.4 million to six companies, to further their ideas about how to get vehicles farther into space cheaply and efficiently.

Technology
a radar dish is illuminated red against a starry night sky

US Space Force's new deep space radar tracks multiple satellites 22,000 miles away in key test

By Brett Tingley published

The U.S. Space Force's powerful new military radar system designed to detect and track objects in distant orbits above Earth has passed an initial key test.

Technology
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