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In Cerro Pachón, a full moon lights up the desert night sky and shows its many features.

Some of Earth's oldest rocks buried deep in Western Australia may hold new clues about the dramatic event that gave rise to our moon.

It's time to suit up as "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" officially launches on Disney+

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois as geomagnetic storm conditions are predicted to continue tonight.

See breathtaking photos of the full "Beaver Moon" brightening November's sky.

Northern lights danced overnight and more displays may follow tonight, as solar storms continue.

SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast today (Nov. 5), adding to its huge and ever-growing satellite-internet megaconstellation.

"If these results are confirmed, it would mark a major paradigm shift in cosmology since the discovery of dark energy 27 years ago."

Five lucky winners will be announced Nov. 12 at 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT) on Space.com's Facebook, Twitter, and BlueSky pages.

The near-full moon shines close to the Pleiades open star cluster early on Nov. 6

"By reproducing relativistic plasma conditions in the lab, we can measure processes that shape the evolution of cosmic jets and better understand the origin of magnetic fields in intergalactic space."

The astronauts of China's three-person Shenzhou 20 mission will wait a little longer before returning to Earth, after a suspected debris impact on their spacecraft.

Astrophotographer Mark Johnstron captured a mesmerizing cloud of hydrogen plasma dancing above the sun's limb in this breathtaking video.

Under the untouched darkness of Chile's Atacama Desert, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope stands beneath an arching Milky Way.

Rocket Lab will launch its sixth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS this afternoon (Nov. 5), and you can watch the action live.

November's full supermoon occurs as the moon draws close to Earth in its 27-day orbit.

The back-to-back eruptions caused radio blackouts across two hemispheres as the active sunspots turn to face Earth.

Don't miss 2025's closest full moon with this free livestream from Italy with the Virtual Telescope Project. The livestream will begin at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT)

A Pakistani astronaut will fly to China's Tiangong space station for a short visit, marking the start of international participation in China's human spaceflight program.

We'll lose the ISS pretty soon. What might we lose with it?

The Bwine F7GIM is a lightweight beginner drone that weighs above the 250 g threshold, but it flies well, and the automatic camera is fairly good.