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A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule will undock from the International Space Station today (Feb. 26), and you can watch its departure live.

NASA has returned its Artemis 2 moon rocket to the Vehicle Assembly Building, where engineers can diagnose and repair an issue with the vehicle's upper stage.

Telescopes are instruments designed for observing distant objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation. They are fundamental tools in astronomy, allowing us to see objects far beyond the resolution of the naked eye.

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Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million cosmic scenes, including supermassive black holes, merging galaxies, and supernova explosions.

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NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, carrying NASA’s Artemis 2 SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft secured to mobile launcher 1, rolls back Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to troubleshoot the flow of helium to the rocket’s upper stage, the interim cryogenic propulsion stage. Once complete, the SLS rocket will roll back to Launch Complex 39B to prepare to launch four astronauts around the Moon and back for the Artemis 2 test flight. Image: NASA/Kim Shiflett

NASA hauled its Artemis 2 moon rocket off its seaside pad Wednesday for a slow trip back to a processing facility to track down and fix a helium pressurization problem that has delayed launch of four astronauts on a flight around the moon from this month to at least April 1.

NASA has shed more light on last month's early end to SpaceX's Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station, at the request of the astronaut who experienced the medical issue that caused their return.

The blood moon phase will be visible across swathes of North America before dawn on March 3.

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Rocket Lab scrubbed the planned Feb. 25 launch of its HASTE suborbital rocket, which will send a scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicle up for the U.S. military. No new target date has been announced.

Cities far below the International Space Station and stars far in the cosmic distance create ghostly trails of light in a long-exposure photograph from NASA astronaut Chris Williams.

A waxing gibbous moon and brilliant Jupiter will pair up after sunset on Feb. 26.

Astronomers have dived into the turbulent and chaotic heart of the Milky Way, discovering hidden chemistry around our galaxy's supermassive black hole.

File – SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands in the vertical launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the launch of the Starlink 17-5 mission on Aug. 18, 2025. This was the ninth flight for Falcon 9 booster, tail number B1088. Image: SpaceX

SpaceX is set to launch its 500th Starlink satellite of the year during a flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base Wednesday morning.