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The crescent Moon returns and waxes to first quarter. Two binocular comets are on the way out. And Arcturus is once again the Ghost of Summer Suns.

Image: Focusing on NGC 3370

Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures the meandering course of the Likouala-aux-Herbes river in the Republic of the Congo.

Technicians with the European Space Agency and Airbus/Airbus Netherlands are shown performing an illumination test on one of the solar array wing panels during installation on the Orion spacecraft for Artemis I inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 30, 2020. The solar arrays were extended, inspected, and then retracted, before installation on the spacecraft. Each solar array panel will generate 11 kilowatts of power and span about 63 feet. Image: NASA/Frank Michaux

Legacy names in European spaceflight and defense, Airbus, Leonardo and Thales, announced a memorandum of understanding on Thursday to combine forces in a new entity designed to rival other aerospace juggernauts in this arena, like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and SpaceX.

The merged remnants of stellar pairs may orbit the Milky Way’s central, supermassive black hole.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket streaks across the sky on the SpainSat NG-2 mission for Hisdesat as seen from St. Cloud, Florida. Image: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now

Update Oct. 23, 10:25 p.m. EDT (0225 UTC): SpaceX deployed the SpainSat NG-2 satellite.

A new image from NOAA's GOES-19 satellite has captured a rate celestial cameo: Earth itself appearing in the view of the spacecraft's solar coronagraph.

The new technique could one day be used to create less expensive astronomical sensors.

The Republic of Cyprus has signed an Associate Agreement with the European Space Agency, and is expected to become an Associate Member in the coming months.  

Footage appearing to show a number of "double fireball" events may have been caused by a simple quirk of equipment.

The waxing moon will appear alongside Mars and Mercury as the sun sets on Oct. 23

Elon Musk has hammered acting NASA chief Sean Duffy repeatedly on social media over the past few days, calling him "Sean Dummy" and claiming he's "trying to kill NASA." Here's what may be going on.

Scattering microscopic particles of sulfur in the atmosphere might slow down climate change. It might also change weather patterns.

Astronomers have sighted Betelgeuse’s mysterious companion — and it’s turning out to be full of surprises.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.