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Amateur astrophotographer captures trio of breathtaking nebulas from the Central Australian Desert (photos)

"There's some great targets in the southern hemisphere, including the Carina Nebula."

Space

What are these strange swirls around an infant star? 'We may be watching a planet come into existence in real time'

Astronomers have discovered a baby exoplanet "spiral architect" carving complex swirls into a disk of gas and dust around the young star HD 135344B.

Space

Pope Leo XIV marks 56th anniversary of moon landing with observatory visit, call to Buzz Aldrin

Pope Leo XIV has marked the 56th anniversary of man’s arrival on the moon Sunday with a visit to the Vatican astronomical observatory in Castel Gandolfo and a call to astronaut Buzz Aldrin

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South Korea wants to build a moon base by 2045

South Korea just laid out its long-term space exploration road map, which features the planned construction of a moon base two decades from now.

Space

Discover where the Eagle might have landed: How to find Apollo 11's backup sites on the moon

Find the locations of the five landing zones considered as the setting for humanity's first steps on another world.

Space

NASA's Roman Space Telescope could discover 100,000 new cosmic explosions: 'We're definitely expecting the unexpected'

Supernovas, kilonovas, gamma-ray bursts... oh my! The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will uncover 100,000 of these explosions and many more powerful and violent cosmic events.

Space

See the moon cross the Pleiades for the last time this year on July 20

The moon's crescent limb will cloak and uncover stars from the iconic cluster before sunrise.

Space

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 169 — The Day Mars Died

On Episode 169 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by JPL Chief Engineer Emeritus Rob Manning to look back at the Mariner 4 Mars mission 60 years later.

Space

Twin NASA Mars probes will fly on 2nd-ever launch of Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket now has a payload for its second-ever flight —NASA's ESCAPADE Mars mission.

Space

Astronomers discover strange solar system body dancing in sync with Neptune: 'Like finding a hidden rhythm in a song'

Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice giant Neptune.

Space

Newly discovered 'cosmic unicorn' is a spinning dead star that defies physics: 'We have a real mystery on our hands'

Two teams of astronomers have simultaneously discovered a strange, spinning dead star that seems to defy our current understanding of both neutron stars and white dwarfs.

Space

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.

Space

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."

Space

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.

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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.

Space

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.

Space

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

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

Space

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.

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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.

Space

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.

Space

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.

Space

2 billion-year-old moon rock found in Africa reveals secret lunar history

The basaltic meteorite is a piece of lunar rock that formed in a lava flow 2.35 billion years ago, long after volcanism on the moon was supposed to have ended.

Space

A vast shadow will sweep over Saturn's cloud tops early on July 18: Here's how to see it

Titan shadow transit seasons occurs just once every 15 years.

Space

China's Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling probe snaps gorgeous shots of Earth and the moon (video, photos)

China's Tianwen 2 mission captured stunning views of Earth and the moon from deep space just days after launch.

Space

Bad news for alien life? Earth-size planets may be less common than we thought

Up to 200 worlds investigated by NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite could be bigger than predicted, a finding that could impact our search for alien life.

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