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The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. The name "Milky Way" comes from its appearance as a dim glowing band arching across the night sky, in which the unaided eye cannot distinguish individual stars.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic moment: a comet breaking apart in real time.

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois tonight and over the weekend as several coronal mass ejections and fast solar wind impact Earth.

Rocket Lab has inked a $190 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense for 20 launches of the company's suborbital HASTE rocket.

NASA's Space Launch System rocket was back on the move overnight ahead of its second mission to the moon, which will be the first time the vehicle carries a crew.

NASA's SLS rocket is back at the launch pad as the space agency gears up to launch Artemis 2 astronauts on a mission around the moon next month.

A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught the "echo" of this gamma-ray burst.

The Rubin Observatory has detected thousands of new asteroids, including several that spin a lot faster than expected for typical rubble piles.

The Smile mission is set to launch on a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on Thursday 9 April at 08:29 CEST/07:29 BST/03:29 local time. Follow along as we communicate on the final preparations for launch. Journalists are invited to join online media briefings in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German.

The spring equinox marks the first day of spring today, but daylight actually lasts several minutes longer than night. Here's why the equinox doesn't appear perfectly equal.

The waxing Moon grows along the horns of Taurus, then passes first-quarter phase amid Jupiter and the heads of the Gemini twins.

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft roll away from the Vehicle Assembly Building atop the Mobile Launcher 1 and crawler-transporter 2 on Friday, March 20, 2026. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now

NASA’s Moon rocket began heading back to the launch pad after repairs inside the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. The 322-foot-tall Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, atop the 400-foot-tall Mobile Launcher, will start the slow trek to the pad Thursday night.

These worlds are among the least dense ever found, and all attempts to probe their atmospheres have been blocked by a mysterious smog.

One of the two spacecraft that make up Europe's Proba-3 solar-eclipse mission just reestablished contact with its handlers after being incommunicado for a month.

Catch the soft glow of earthshine as a young crescent moon appears low after sunset.