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The Smithsonian might have to cut space shuttle Discovery into pieces to get it to Texas

In a letter to Congress, museum officials have warned the shuttle may need to be partially disassembled in order to be transferred, risking irreversible damage to one of the most meticulously preserved pieces of spaceflight history.

Satellites watch glaciers melting in Patagonia | Space photo of the day for Oct. 22, 2025

New satellite imagery from the European Space Agency reveals nearly four decades of dramatic ice loss for two of Patagonia's largest glaciers.

Newly Discovered Asteroid Circles the Sun Inside Venus’s Orbit

Astronomers have discovered a second asteroid in the inner solar system, circling the Sun almost entirely within the orbit of Venus.

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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on 550th Falcon 9 mission

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 preparing to launch its 550th Falcon 9 mission since the rocket’s debut in 2010. The launch from California will add 28 more broadband internet satellites to the company’s Starlink constellation.

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Volcanic explosions on Mars may have left massive ice deposits at the Red Planet's equator

Ancient explosive volcanic eruptions on Mars could help explain mysterious hints of buried ice from the Red Planet's equator, a new study finds.

Sounding the alarm: ESA introduces space environment ‘health index’

The congestion and pollution of Earth orbit is quickly getting worse. We need to be able to quantify how our behaviour impacts the orbital environment in the future. To this end, the European Space Agency (ESA) is adding a new health index to its yearly Space Environment Report that summarises in one number the status of our space environment over time.

SpaceX launches record-breaking 133rd Falcon 9 mission of the year (video)

SpaceX launched its record-breaking 133rd Falcon 9 mission of 2025 today (Oct. 22), topping last year's tally with no signs of slowing down before the year ends.

Two Black Holes Observed Circling Each Other for the First Time

Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) made history in 2019 by producing the first image of a black hole. The object in question was the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of M87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy about 53.5 million light-years distant in the constellation Virgo. This was followed in 2022 with the first-ever image of Sagittarius A*, the SMBH at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. Now, in another first, astronomers have observed a pair of black holes orbiting each other in quasar OJ287, an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) located 4 billion light-years away in the constellation Cancer.

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China's 1st reusable rocket test fires engines ahead of debut flight (video)

LandSpace conducted a static-fire test with its Zhuque-3 rocket recently, an important step in the prep work ahead of the partially reusable rocket's debut launch.

Comet 3I/ATLAS could soon shower NASA's Jupiter probe in charged particles. Will it reveal more about the interstellar invader?

At the end of October Europa Clipper will fly in line with 3I/ATLAS’ ion tail — but will any of the charged particles reach the spacecraft, and will the spacecraft be ready to receive them?

Hidden In The Sun's Glare, This Asteroid Is Uncomfortably Close To Earth

In the distant past, the Solar System was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time, many of them eventually became part of the rocky planets. What's left of the space rocks are mostly gathered in the main asteroid belt.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on his new book and the hidden dangers of defunding science: 'That will ultimately bite you in the ass' (exclusive)

We spoke with Neil deGrasse Tyson about his new Q&A book "Just Visiting This Planet: Further Scientific Adventures of Merlin From Omniscia" arriving on Oct. 21, 2025.

Chemistry on Saturn's huge moon Titan is even weirder than we thought

Titan's chemical inventory is believed to bear some resemblance to the prebiotic soup on the early Earth.

Titan Is Teaching A New Chemistry Lesson

On the surface of it, Earth and Saturn's moon Titan are wildly different from one another. Earth is temperate and warmed by the Sun, liquid water flows across its surface, and life pervades its opulent biosphere. Titan is beyond the reach of the Sun's warmth, is frigid and lifeless, and orbits a gas giant that is also lifeless.

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The other space race: why the world is obsessed with sending objects into orbit

An academic dives into "the other space race" as countries work to send satellites and other objects into orbit around the Earth.

NASA'd too hard: The ultimate NASA trivia quiz

Test your knowledge of NASA's triumphs, setbacks, and space-age breakthroughs that define this space agency's legendary history.

NASA stacks Artemis 2 moon mission's Orion capsule atop SLS rocket ahead of 2026 launch

The Artemis 2 SLS rocket that will launch the next astronauts around the moon is all put together inside NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building.

'You're free!' Tiny Japanese satellites escape doomed space station years ahead of its fiery death | Space photo of the day for Oct. 21, 2025

JAXA has successfully deployed three new Cubesats from the International Space Station's Kibo module, marking another step in democratizing access to space.

Objects at the Edge of the Solar System Behave in an Unexpected Way

In a surprise to researchers, the small, icy bodies beyond Pluto's orbit tend to rotate opposite the way they move around the Sun, which might say something about how they formed.

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Hera And Europa Clipper Will Pass Through 3I/ATLAS' Tail

All sorts of crazy things have been suggested regarding 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object that we’ve discovered. Some are simply conspiracy theories about it being an alien spacecraft, while others have been well-thought out suggestions, like using Martian-based probes to observe the comet as it streaked past the red planet. A new paper pre-published on arXiv and accepted for publication by the Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society by Samuel Grand and Geraint Jones, of the Finnish Meteorological Institute and ESA respectively, falls into the latter category, and suggests utilizing two spacecraft already en route to their separate destinations to potentially detect ions from the object’s spectacular tail that has formed as it approaches the Sun.

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