Butterfly Star flaps its rainbow wings | Space photo of the day for Sept. 4, 2025 This young star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, separating the "wings" of the butterfly. Space · Sep 4, 2025
US in real danger of losing the moon race to China, experts tell Senate A Senate Commerce Committee hearing sounded the alarm over the U.S.-China moon race, emphasizing American dominance off Earth as the backdrop for NASA’s next funding authorization. Space · Sep 4, 2025
'Blood Moon' To Rise During Total Lunar Eclipse Sunday Night Stargazers will have a chance to see a "Blood Moon" on Sunday night during a total lunar eclipse visible across Asia and swathes of Europe and Africa. International Business Times · Sep 4, 2025
Elon Musk Predicts 'In About 6 Or 7 Years' Starship Will Launch More Than 24 Times In 24 Hours—A Pace That Could Turn Rockets Into Routine Travel Elon Musk has never been short on ambition, but his latest prediction sets a new bar even for SpaceX. On Aug. 24, after SpaceX completed three Falcon launches in just 51 hours, one user on X remarked the company was "getting closer to the airline cadence." Musk's response? Benzinga · Sep 4, 2025
Watch NASA's Artemis 2 moon astronauts take on the viral 'Bobby and Pete' fitness challenge (video) The four Artemis 2 moon astronauts passed the "Bobby and Pete" fitness challenge recently, performing 100 pushups and 50 pull-ups in less than 10 minutes. Space · Sep 3, 2025
Astronaut Megan McArthur, 1st woman to pilot SpaceX Dragon, retires after 25-year NASA career McArthur launched on two spaceflights, logging 213 days in orbit across her nearly 25 years, and held leadership positions at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Space · Sep 3, 2025
Marsquakes indicate a solid core for the red planet, just like Earth It turns out Mars has a solid core just like Earth The Independent UK · Sep 3, 2025
Perseid meteors shine with the Milky Way over an ancient Egyptian temple in breathtaking photo The image was captured on Aug. 12 as the Perseid meteor shower hit its peak. Space · Sep 3, 2025
SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites into orbit from Florida on heels of California liftoff (video) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Wednesday morning, Sep. 3, carrying 28 Starlink wireless internet satellites to join the company's growing megaconstellation. Space · Sep 3, 2025
When is the next 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse visible from North America? The total lunar eclipse on Sept. 7, 2025, won't be visible from North America, but it's only a 177-day wait until another 'blood moon.' Space · Sep 3, 2025
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will fly by Mars 1 month from now — and Europe's Red Planet orbiters will be ready The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will zoom past Mars in October 2025, and ESA's Mars orbiters will attempt to image and analyze the object during the encounter. Space · Sep 3, 2025
Asteroid Bennu contains stardust that's older than the solar system "Bennu is a time capsule of the material that was throughout the solar system." Space · Sep 2, 2025
Astronomers discover a 'forbidden' pulsar fleeing a supernova in a seemingly empty region of the Milky Way A neutron star-powered pulsar is fleeing a supernova explosion in the outskirts of the Milky Way, a low-density region where such events are "forbidden." Space · Sep 2, 2025
Space Stock Tracker: Trump Moves Space Command, Rocket Lab Opens Launch Complex 3 Rocket Lab Corp. (NASDAQ:RKLB) announced the opening of Launch Complex 3 and President Donald Trump said that he will move the headquarters of U.S. Space Command. Benzinga · Sep 2, 2025
Space · Sep 2, 2025 Colossal moon Titan casts a shadow on Saturn's cloud tops early on Sept. 4. Will you be able to see it? Titan's shadow will fall over Saturn during the early morning hours of Sept. 4.
Space · Sep 2, 2025 Interstellar invader comet 3I/ATLAS could be investigated by these spacecraft as it races past the sun: 'This could be literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' Excitement is building regarding the interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS, with new research suggesting which spacecraft from Earth could get a close-up view of the comet.
Space · Sep 2, 2025 I watched scientists view the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in real time. Here's what they saw "Once these objects get too faint to see, they will never be seen again,"
Space · Sep 2, 2025 How magnets could help astronauts explore the moon and Mars Magnetic fields can replace bulky centrifuges in space oxygen systems, making them lighter, more efficient and better suited for deep-space missions, a new study finds.
The Guardian - UK · Sep 2, 2025 ‘A paradigm change’: black hole spotted that may have been created moments after big bang Sighting by James Webb space telescope of black hole with sparse halo of material could upend theories of the universe
Space · Sep 2, 2025 1st Indian astronaut to visit ISS welcomed home as a hero "Since I landed in Lucknow around 7:30 this morning, I must have clicked about 2,000 selfies."
Space · Sep 1, 2025 Watch an asteroid the size of an airliner speed toward Earth live online Sept. 2 (video) On Wednesday (Sept. 3), the asteroid 2025 QDB will come to within just over half the distance between Earth and the moon, and you can watch its progress live online.
Space · Sep 1, 2025 Mercury makes an elusive appearance with the bright star Regulus on Sept. 2 Mercury will be close to Regulus embedded among the stars of the constellation Leo.
Space · Sep 1, 2025 33 hungry SpaceX Raptors from below | Space photo of the day for Sept. 1, 2025 The view underneath SpaceX's Starship spacecraft shows the Super Heavy booster's complex array of 33 Raptor engines.
Space · Sep 1, 2025 How military helicopters in Colorado will help land NASA's Artemis astronauts on the moon NASA is using Colorado's rugged peaks to rehearse the risky final moments of future Artemis lunar landings.
Space · Sep 1, 2025 Pluto's dwarf planet partner Charon may have spilled its guts to create 2 of the pair's moons "The surfaces of Nix and Hydra are as close to unaltered as you can get."