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Northern and southern lights produced by a recent bout of severe space weather may rival the most intense auroras of the past 500 years

The 90-year-old finally realized his dreams of spaceflight aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle, which also carried five other crew members on a short suborbital voyage

Starliner’s first crewed launch will mark just the sixth time ever that NASA astronauts have flown in a brand-new spacecraft

Purple may be a likely color for extraterrestrial organisms, research suggests

A black hole weighing as much as 33 suns lurks a mere 2,000 light-years away from our solar system

The nonprofit Astronomers Without Borders is collecting gently used eclipse glasses through Warby Parker and other sites to enable people to see future eclipses

The atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-76b may rain iron and form a strange, rainbow-like phenomenon called a “glory” never yet seen outside the solar system

Polarized light from Sagittarius A*, our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, shows swirling magnetic fields that may hint at the presence of an unseen jet

SpaceX lost both the booster and vehicle in a test launch of its massive Starship rocket. But the third try was the charm for Starship, which smoothly separated in its most successful flight to date

The quasar, as bright as 500 trillion suns, has evaded astronomers for over 40 years because of its incredible luminosity

Fragments from Asteroid 2024 BX1 have proven to be a rare meteorite type that helps reveal the early solar system's building blocks

Odysseus, a lunar lander built by the aerospace company Intuitive Machines, launched atop a SpaceX rocket on a mission to the moon's south pole

A first look at materials from asteroid Bennu sparks speculation that the space rock was once part of an ancient, watery protoplanet

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is eliminating nearly 600 workers due to funding shortfalls for the space agency's Mars Sample Return mission

After an unexpected communications dropout, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is back in business on Mars

Peregrine will likely burn up in Earth’s atmosphere, the moon lander’s builder has said

A new analysis finds that images from Voyager 2's close encounter with Neptune show the planet as being far too blue

The James Webb Space Telescope caught its second glimpse of the year of Uranus and its bright-shining rings

The flare may have been accompanied by a plasma eruption now headed toward Earth

A strong geomagnetic storm is expected to hit Earth after several outbursts from the sun merged into one large blob of plasma

Six “sub-Neptune” worlds locked in a delicate dance around a nearby star offer fresh insights for the orbital evolution of planetary systems

SpaceX’s Starship—the most powerful rocket ever built—experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” in its otherwise successful second full-scale launch, triggering a federal investigation into what went wrong

The earliest active supermassive black hole ever seen offers clues on how these enigmatic objects first formed

The Lucy spacecraft’s encounter with asteroid Dinkinesh has revealed a bizarre “contact binary” double-moon companion