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A wisp of light reflecting off the moon got caught in Earth's atmosphere, making our neighbor look like a white crown in orbit.

The private Cygnus cargo ship has managed to unfurl just one of its two solar arrays, but the freighter may still be able to reach the space station on Wednesday (Nov. 9) as planned.

See the sun rise while a total lunar eclipse sets on Tuesday (Nov. 8), in a phenomenon known as a 'selenelion'.

We've assembled a chronology of the different phases of the Blood Moon total lunar eclipse, including some of the things you might see during each phase.

A strange blue aurora has been spotted in the skies over Abisko, Sweden. Could a Russian submarine be the culprit of the mysterious light show?

One of the first movies from Phase 5 of the MCU we’ll be watching is the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Here’s everything we know so far.

Planets and stars are almost like parents and children, a new study suggests: The smaller bodies keep the larger ones active, helping them stay young for longer.

A computer simulation of TRAPPIST-1e shows how the James Webb Space Telescope could help the search for habitable alien worlds.

Two puffs of star-making material exude mystical glows in a recently-published Hubble Space Telescope image.

The last total lunar eclipse until 2025 will turn the moon a blood-red hue on Tuesday, Nov. 8, but exactly when you should look up depends on where you are.

The rapid decline of the British-Irish Ice Sheet thousands of years ago may hold lessons for how melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will influence sea-level rise in the future.

We're unprepared for when E.T. reaches out to us. A team of experts is determined to change that.

If you surfed the web this morning, you may have seen news of the latest existential threat to humanity: a “planet killer” asteroid named 2022 AP7. Luckily for us 2022 AP7 “has no chance to hit the Earth currently”, according to Scott Sheppard at the Carnegie Institution for Science.

This sci-fi game from Ravensburger is a high-speed race based on Disney’s Space Mountain indoor roller coaster

A fire alarm on Earth prevented the launch of Northrop Grumman's NG-18 cargo ship for NASA on Nov. 6.

NASA named 18 space agencies, organizations and individuals who will watch the Orion spacecraft as it flies around the moon, after launching with Artemis 1 no earlier than Nov. 14.

The spiral galaxy Messier 99 got the star treatment from two European Southern Observatory instruments.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard successfully launched a new rocket capable of sending satellites into orbit on Saturday (Nov. 5).

Our roundup of the best star trackers for astrophotography for wide-field and deep sky imaging.

You can see a Blood Moon total lunar eclipse on Nov. 8, the last until 2025. Here's how to watch it online for free.

New research indicates that certain areas of the Martian crust have a higher silica content than expected, upending the long-held theory that the crust is uniformly basaltic.