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Supermassive black holes that seem too large to exist in the early universe may have grown from primordial black holes formed in the first second after the Big Bang.

The surprise display was captured on June 9 by aurora chaser Harlan Thomas.

You can now watch the award-winning documentary "SALLY" about the first American woman in space, Sally Ride, on Disney+ and Hulu.

China's human spaceflight agency just conducted a crucial pad abort test for its Mengzhou spacecraft as it continues toward its goal of putting boots on the moon before 2030.

Paramount announced that the show's five-season mission is coming to an end last week with a heartfelt 'thank you' from the showrunners.

A mystery signal detected high in the sky above Antarctica defies current models of physics and could represent a new particle, scientists say.

The beginning of the industrial development of LISA was among the highlights for the European Space Agency on the second day of the International Paris Air Show. 

Astronomers have used the ALMA radio telescope to investigate how planets grow in protoplanetary disks of gas and dust around young stars.

Watch the stunning Mars and Regulus conjunction today with this free livestream

Get ready for a new Roman Empire: A NASA space telescope will detect a staggering wealth of intricate gravitational lenses that could help unlock the mysteries of dark matter.

Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without breaking them.

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered an entire galaxy cluster wrapped in a 20 million light-year-wide envelope of charged particles.

The beads are over 3.3 billion years old, and date from the formation of the "Man in the Moon."

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket placed 26 Starlink internet broadband satellites into low Earth orbit, lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on June 16, 2025.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base shortly after sunset on June 16, 2025, to begin the Starlink 15-9 mission. Image: SpaceX

Update June 17, 1:35 a.m. EDT: SpaceX confirmed deployment of the Starlink satellites.

Leaks aboard the International Space Station, as well as on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, delayed Axiom's next private astronaut mission, but the crew now has a target launch date of June 19.

Galaxies are vast systems of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity. Astronomers classify them into several types based on their shape and structure. Here's a breakdown of the main types of galaxies: