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The search for life beyond Earth is one of the most profound quests in human history. It began not in laboratories, but in the minds of ancient stargazers who imagined

On October 18, 2025, the European Southern Observatory‘s (ESO) 4MOST (4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope) instrument observed the sky with its full array of 2,400 optical fibers for the first time,

A trick of the light will cause a vast letter “X” and “V” to appear on the lunar surface tonight, mere hours before the moon hits its first quarter phase,

Roscosmos Spacewalk 65 – YouTube Watch On A pair of cosmonauts will work outside the International Space Station today (Oct. 28), and you can watch the off-Earth action live. Sergey

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites today (Oct. 27). A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 28 Starlink craft lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base

Using NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three Earth-size worlds orbiting around twin stars. It has previously been theorized that binary systems are hostile to

‘Once Upon A Time from Space’ key information After the last astronauts landed on the moon (for now) in 1972, what happened next? The BBC Two series “Once Upon A

Get ready, aurora chasers: The northern lights may put on a good show across parts of the U.S. tonight as a high-speed solar wind stream is forecast to slam into

A newly found interstellar comet poses absolutely no threat to Earth, but a NASA-coordinated group plans to observe it to help our ability to monitor any future objects that might

A glowing meteor trail appears to wrap around the tail of Comet Lemmon as seen by astronomer Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project on Oct. 24. (Image credit: Gianluca