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The 2025 summer solstice takes place on June 20, heralding the onset of astronomical summer and the longest day of the year.

Its name might be a bit of a mouthful, but this Lego Star Wars ship is wonderfully pocket-sized while still packing in a lot of detail.

Researchers created a satellite tracking system to track satellite streaks across the Arctic for the first time ever.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will launch six people to suborbital space on Saturday (June 21), and you can watch the action live.

The moon is a key step in the journey of space exploration, but making it habitable brings up lots of questions around space law and policy

Sunspot region 4114 has done it again! This time unleashing a colossal X1.9 solar flare.

James Webb Space Telescope finds exoplanets in extreme environments that could potentially be habitable.

Rocket Lab will launch a satellite for a confidential customer early Friday morning (June 20), and you can watch the action live.

For centuries Mars has been called "the Red Planet" and there's a scientific reason why.

A powerful new technique is poised to revolutionize how astronomers observe black holes, by producing sharp, multicolored images that could reveal their dynamic evolution in real time.

The sun will reach its most northern point on June 20, marking the start of the summer season in the Northern Hemisphere.

This 4+ Lego set is colorful and fun, ideal for young Marvel fans looking for an early introduction to building Lego.

NASA and the Department of Defense practice recovery procedures for an abort scenario in the upcoming Artemis 2 mission.

Blue Origin's next suborbital flight is scheduled to launch on Saturday (June 21), carrying a private crew of six.

"These small galaxies punch well above their weight."

The monsterous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 isn't just the largest icy rock in the Oort Cloud, it's the second most distant that is chemically active.

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to New Hampshire as geomagnetic activity remains unsettled.

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have discovered a vast 23 million light-year-wide tendril connecting galactic clusters and containing much of the universe's missing matter.

SpaceX's newest Starship vehicle exploded on a stand in Texas late Wednesday night (June 18), as it was being prepped for the program's 10th-ever test flight.

The alignment occurs hours after the moon hits its third quarter phase.

A new Chinese refueling spacecraft met up with an older satellite in high Earth orbit this month, apparently marking a step forward in orbital servicing.