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The Super Heavy's Raptor engines.

SpaceX’s holiday greetings involve a quirky rocket-engine nozzle dance

SpaceX has just delivered holiday greetings via a brilliant video showing its Super Heavy rocket's engine nozzles dancing.
The core stage of NASA's SLS rocket.

Watch NASA’s SLS rocket take one small step toward the Artemis II moon mission

Frosty scene at the south pole of Mars

Celebrating a white Christmas — martian style

The world's most powerful rocket on the launchpad.

SpaceX gets green light for seventh Starship test, but when is it?

The International Space Station.

How to watch the final ISS spacewalk of 2024

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts (from top) Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module and the Starliner spacecraft.

Boeing Starliner astronauts will stay in space a little while longer

Rendering of Tiangong Space Station

Chinese astronauts perform record-breaking 9-hour spacewalk

The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is pictured approaching the space station above the Indian Ocean on March 16, 2023.

This is the coolest video you’ll see of a SpaceX Dragon capsule heading home

This image depicts star cluster NGC 602 in vibrant and festive colors. The cluster includes a giant dust cloud ring, shown in greens, yellows, blues, and oranges. The green hues and feathery edges of the ring cloud create the appearance of a wreath made of evergreen boughs. Hints of red representing X-rays provide shading, highlighting layers within the wreath-like ring cloud.

NASA telescopes capture a cosmic wreath for the holidays

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket.

Blue Origin edges closer to New Glenn rocket’s maiden flight

This illustration shows NASA's InSight spacecraft with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface.

NASA orbiter captures one last image of retired InSight lander on Mars

Japan's LignoSat being deployed from the ISS.

Watch the space station send the first wooden satellite into orbit

SpaceX performing a static fire test of its Starship rocket in December 2024.

Watch SpaceX fire up Starship spacecraft engines ahead of 7th test flight

As part of key tests for the Starship's seventh test flight, SpaceX has test fired the spacecraft's engines at the Starbase facility in Texas.
Twelve million light-years away lies the galactic masterpiece Messier 83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy. Its swirling spiral arms display a high rate of star formation and host six detected supernovae. This image was captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF NOIRLab.

See the majestic Southern Pinwheel Galaxy in this Dark Energy Camera image

The striking Southern Pinwheel Galaxy is one of the brightest barred spiral galaxies in the sky.
Artist concept of the proposed BHEX network.

Group wants to launch a telescope to study black holes from space

The next phase in imaging black holes is to study them from space.
SpaceX's Starship rocket on the pad in Boca Chica, Texas.

SpaceX wants its Starbase site to officially become a city

SpaceX is aiming to turn its Starbase facility into a new Texas city.
Perseverance's view from the rim of Mars' Jezero Crater

NASA’s Mars rover just emerged from Jezero Crater. So, what next?

After a three-and-a-half month climb, NASA's Perseverance rover has finally reached the top of the Jezero Crater rim. So, what now?
relive orion homecoming two years ago return

Relive Orion’s historic homecoming exactly two years ago

The Artemis I mission effectively marked the start of NASA's ambitious Artemis program, which plans to return astronauts to the moon by the end of this decade.
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, right, stands near the apex of a sand ripple in an image taken by Perseverance on Feb. 24, 2024, about five weeks after the rotorcraft’s final flight. Part of one of Ingenuity’s rotor blades lies on the surface about 49 feet (15 meters) west of helicopter (at left in image).

NASA learns how the Ingenuity helicopter ended up crashing on Mars

The Ingenuity helicopter flew on Mars for an incredible 72 flights. Now, NASA has shared findings of why the mission came to an end.
Artist's concept depicts new research that has expanded our understanding of exoplanet WASP-69 b's "tail."

Astronomers spot strange exoplanet with a tail 350,000 miles long

The recently spotted exoplanet WASP-69 b has a long tail of gas, like a comet.
This is a montage of NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope views of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, each shown in enhanced color. The images were taken over nearly 10 years, from 2014 to 2024.

Feast your eyes on 10 years of Hubble images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

The Hubble Space Telescope has been imaging the outer planets of our solar system for a decade, learning about their strange weather conditions.
NASA astronaut Don Pettit discussing his photography from aboard the ISS.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit talks photography from the space station

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is an exceptional space photographer, and he's just been talking about his work.
SpaceX tests its Super Heavy booster ahead of the Starship's seventh flight test.

SpaceX video shows awesome power of Starship rocket in new fire test

SpaceX has performed a static fire test of the mighty Super Heavy booster ahead of the seventh test flight of the Starship rocket.
SpaceX's Super Heavy booster on the launchpad ahead of the Starship's seventh test flight.

SpaceX’s Starship megarocket is getting ready to fly again

SpaceX has shared an image of its Super Heavy booster standing tall on the launchpad ahead of the Starship's seventh test flight.
Clouds as seen from the space station.

Astronaut’s photos from ISS make clouds look otherworldly

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has posted another set of stunning shots, this time showing clouds as you’ve never seen them before.
An image of the planet Jupiter.

Jupiter will be at its biggest and brightest this weekend. Here’s how to see it

There's a special chance to see Jupiter in the sky this weekend as it comes closest to Earth.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket landing on the Just Read The Instructions droneship.

A SpaceX droneship just hit a milestone for rocket landings

SpaceX couldn't function without its trusty droneships stationed in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and on Thursday, one of them reached a milestone.
The Orion crew module for NASA’s Artemis II mission.

NASA pushes back its Artemis moon missions due to heat shield issues

NASA is delaying its Artemis II and Artemis III missions to 2026 and 2027 respectively due to issues with the Orion capsule's heat shield.
This image shows the Spiderweb protocluster as seen by Webb’s NIRCam (Near-InfraRed Camera).

James Webb spots ancient Spiderweb cluster that’s 10 billion years old

An image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a group of galaxies called the Spiderweb protocluster, and it dates to when the universe was young.
An illustration showing Artemis astronauts on the moon.

NASA to offer major update on Artemis moon plan. Here’s how to watch

NASA’s top team is about to offer its first major update on its ambitious Artemis program in almost a year.
A Falcon 9 booster launches for a record-equalling 20th time.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just flew straight into the record books

SpaceX is able to refly its Falcon 9 rockets multiple times, and one of them has just set a new record.
The sixth Starship mission captured from the ISS.

SpaceX’s recent Starship rocket launch captured in space station video

NASA has shared a cool snippet of video captured from the ISS showing SpaceX’s recent launch of the Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket.
Artist's impression of Copernicus Sentinel-1C in its Vega-C launcher

Watch Europe’s Vega-C rocket return to flight after two years

Europe's Vega-C rocket is back in action after a failure in 2022. It will launch the Sentinel-1C satellite tomorrow -- here's how to watch.
Proba-3 spacecraft aligned above Earth

This pair of satellites is going to create an artificial solar eclipse

A pair of spacecraft are launching on a mission to observe the sun's corona by having one cast a precise shadow from which the other can observe.

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