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A meteor streak is captured as it plunges through Earth’s atmosphere over Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. (Image credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Dai) What is it? A bright meteor, also

SpaceX needs to figure out what happened on the ninth test flight of its Starship megarocket, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has decreed. Flight 9, which lifted off from

Blue Origin is gearing up for the launch of its next space tourism flight, and you can watch the mission live here at Space.com. The 32nd overall mission of Blue

The moon will shine near Mars in the post-sunset sky on May 31, before jumping to its left the following night. (Image credit: Starry Night.) The moon will appear to

A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the greatest challenge yet to the hypothesis that a ninth

SpaceX is still shooting for Mars next year with its giant Starship vehicle, despite some recent explosive hiccups with the megarocket. That was one of the takeaways from a new

Northern lights could dazzle the skies over 15 U.S. States tonight (May 30) and into the weekend as active geomagnetic conditions may push auroras farther south than usual, according to

Astronomers have taken a detailed look at a rare and incredibly violent cosmic event resulting from an unfortunate star venturing too close to a supermassive black hole. The team behind

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SpaceX will launch an advanced GPS satellite today (May 30) on record-breaking short notice, and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket is set to lift off