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The 2025 Southern Delta Aquariid meteor shower is upon us! Here's what you need to know

The Southern Delta Aquariids are active alongside the trusty Perseid meteor shower.

Record-breaking high-altitude shot of sun's surface captured from one of Europe's tallest mountains (photo)

"The mountaineer defies gravity; the astronomer looks up. Both seek to reach the unreachable."

'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds': Jess Bush and Martin Quinn talk feeling comfortable in their characters for Season 3 (exclusive)

'I'm trying to make it as realistic as possible, so that a modern day Scottish person could see themselves in space one day.'

Space station astronauts bid farewell to private Ax-4 crew | On the ISS this week July 14-18, 2025

The Expedition 73 and Axiom Mission 4 crews wrapped up their time together as science and maintenance activities continued aboard the International Space Station.

Federal Chancellor of Austria welcomed to ESA Headquarters

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On Friday 18 July, His Excellency Christian Stocker, Federal Chancellor of Austria, visited ESA Headquarters in Paris receiving a tour of the site from Director General Josef Aschbacher.

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Meteor impact may have triggered massive Grand Canyon landslide 56,000 years ago

A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and reshaped the Colorado River that runs through the national park.

Stratospheric skydiver Felix Baumgartner dies at 56 in tragic paragliding accident

Baumgartner is most well-known for breaking the sound barrier with his body during a freefall from the stratosphere in 2012.

See Venus, the moon and fiery star Aldebaran form a dawn triangle this weekend

Rise and shine! Venus, Aldebaran and the moon team up for a dazzling dawn display.

The new 'Alien: Earth' trailer is here, and we can't wait to be terrified by xenomorphs once again (video)

Hulu released a new trailer for "Alien: Earth," a new sci-fi horror miniseries from "Fargo" creator Noah Hawley that premieres on Aug. 12.

The Vera Rubin Observatory could find dozens of interstellar objects

As astronomers rush to study a newly discovered comet from beyond our solar system, a powerful new observatory may turn rare interstellar sightings into routine events.

This excellent value for money star projector is on sale for less than $14

We've tested numerous star projectors and one of the best value options, the YGiTK Northern Galaxy Lights projector, is 26% off on Amazon, now under $14.

Week in images: 14-18 July 2025

Week in images: 14-18 July 2025

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Exoplanet is shrinking before the X-ray eyes of NASA's Chandra spacecraft: 'The future for this baby planet doesn’t look great'

Astronomers have used the Chandra X-ray telescope to observe an exoplanet as it disintegrates because its parent star is bombarding it with radiation.

A lunar eclipse steals the show in a colorful sky | Space photo of the day for July 18, 2025

A lunar eclipse was seen over the U.S. Naval Observatory Deep South Telescope in Chile.

NASA workers plan 'Moon Day' protest on July 20 to oppose mass layoffs, budget cuts. 'This year has been an utter nightmare that has not stopped.'

Workers from within NASA will protest the space agency leadership's "preemptive over-compliance" of the White House's proposed budget, gutting science and eliminating jobs.

Who is Dr Roger Korby? A brief history of Christine Chapel's new boyfriend in 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'

Dr Korby once crossed paths with Kirk's Enterprise, though he was a very different man at the time…

New Apollo Earthrise view shows Juice’s RIME working well

When the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) flew past our Moon in August 2024, its Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) instrument listened to radio wave echoes to reveal the height of the lunar surface.

A doomed exoplanet is caught in a 'death spiral' around its star. Can it survive?

A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates.

This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 18 – 27

The waning crescent Moon joins Venus and Jupiter at dawn. In the dark of night, the Guardians of the Pole are no such things, except they are. And thereby hangs a tale. . .

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Earth from Space: Circles in the desert

Image: This image from Copernicus Sentinel-1 shows circular agricultural structures near Tabarjal, in the barren desert of northern Saudi Arabia.

Scientists extracted water and oxygen from moon dust using sunlight. Could it work on the lunar surface?

Soil excavated from the moon could be used to produce oxygen and methane, which could be used by lunar settlers for breathing and for rocket fuel.


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