Skywatching

An orange-red full moon is pictured against a black night sky. The upper left of the lunar disk is relatively bright. Vast basaltic plains known as lunar maria can be seen dominating the left half of the moon's surface.

One week until the blood moon total lunar eclipse lights up September's sky

By Anthony Wood published

A total lunar eclipse will take place on Sept. 7-8, creating a spectacular blood moon effect.

Lunar Eclipses
A picture of the moon against a black sky with its right side lit by direct sunlight and its left side bathed in shadow. Dark basaltic plains are visible marking the lunar surface, while numerous large craters can be seen sling the line separating night from day.

See the half-lit first quarter moon shine in the grasp of a celestial scorpion tonight

By Anthony Wood published

The moon will appear in the constellation Scorpius at sunset on Aug. 30-31.

Stargazing
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Don't miss the moon ride close to red supergiant star Antares on Aug. 30

By Anthony Wood published

The half-lit moon will appear close to Antares in the constellation Scorpius later this week.

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Spaceflight

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Aug. 30, 2025.

SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (video)

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites today (Aug. 30), sending 24 of them up from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Launches & Spacecraft
A zoomed out image of a the Rocket Lab launch complex, with a tall black water tower overlooking several buildings next to a wetland.

Virginia is for (space) lovers: Rocket Lab opens new seaside launch pad for reusable Neutron rocket

By Tariq Malik published

Rocket Lab's new Launch Complex 3 will launch Neutron rockets that can land themselves on land or at sea just like SpaceX rockets.

Private Spaceflight
the view of blue waters and white clouds on Earth from a space station high above the planet

Astronaut puts his mad video game skills to the test | On the International Space Station Aug. 25-29, 2025

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

"This demo brought me right back, blending elements of real-time strategy, RPGs and first-person play into something very real."

International Space Station
A man wearing a white mask looks into a glass box full of five white mice, all standing up peering over the edge of the box

Making babies beyond Earth? Mouse study suggests we can make it happen

By Jessica Rendall published

As humans expand into space, how we'll continue to expand the species remains an important question.

International Space Station
SpaceX's Ship upper stage comes down for a splashdown in the Indian Ocean to wrap up Starship's Flight 10 test on Aug. 26, 2025.

Watch a burnt and battered Starship splash down in Indian Ocean to wrap up historic Flight 10 (video, photos)

By Mike Wall published

Newly released SpaceX footage gives us great looks at the final moments of Starship's epic Flight 10 test on Aug. 26, which ended with an Indian Ocean splashdown.

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Science & Astronomy

What is the moon phase today? Lunar phases 2025

By Tariq Malik, Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

Reference See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025.

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neptune night sky september 2019

Neptune Know-It-All: A Neptune trivia quiz

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

In this quiz, you’ll test your knowledge of Neptune's features, moons, and the science that keeps astronomers fascinated.

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Entertainment

a futuristic spaceship flies through the wreck of a giant structure

New 'Jump Space' trailer blasts off with intense interstellar action ahead of September launch (video)

By Jeff Spry published

Leap into the killer cosmic combat for Keepsake Games' retitled first-person PvE shooter

Entertainment
a group of people in dark clothing stand in a dimly-lit room looking up at a holographic floating model of a galaxy

'Foundation' Season 3: What is the strange science of psychohistory in Apple TV+’s sci-fi saga?

By Jeff Spry published

Here's a rundown of Isaac Asimov's mind-numbing field of mathematics that predicts future events.

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What's Up In Space Today

Search For Life

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That mysterious 'Wow! signal' from space? Scientists may finally know where it came from — and it's probably not aliens

By Leonard David published

Scientists studying the famous 'Wow! signal' think they've finally pinpointed a possible origin for the baffling radio transmission detected in 1977.

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.

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Technology

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility shortly after touching down on Nov. 12, 2022.

US Space Force's secretive X-37B space plane will test quantum alternative to GPS navigation

By Samuel Lellouch published

The U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane will test a potential alternative to GPS that makes use of quantum science as a tool for navigation: a quantum inertial sensor.

Technology

NASA and Google test AI medical assistant for astronaut missions to the moon and Mars

By Andrew Jones published

Google and NASA are trialing an AI-powered medical assistant that could help astronauts care for themselves when mission control is out of reach.

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."

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