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The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS changed significantly as it flew by the sun last fall, astronomers have discovered.

Things are gearing up in the development of the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile, as its developers enter the final design phase before the project goes before Congress for funding.

The waxing Moon this week visits Venus, the Pleiades, and the Jupiter-Pollux-Castor triangle, then it occults Regulus in a bright sky.

Image: This image from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the coast of Gabon in striking colours.

The Artemis 2 astronauts said they gained a deeper understanding of their Orion capsule during their moon mission —and what they learned bodes well for future Artemis flights.

Artemis 2's groundbreaking space toilet doesn't deserve the bad press it's gotten over the past two weeks, according to mission commander Reid Wiseman.

One of the game's more bizarre features is the ability to stab your way up to the edge of space.

Blue Origin conducted a static fire test today (April 16) with a flight-proven New Glenn booster, paving the way for a planned launch on Sunday morning (April 19).

Fireballs and meteors could be seen anytime the constellation Lyra is above the horizon.

The star is escaping the Large Magellanic Cloud for the Milky Way.

Astroscale's 2027 ISSA-J mission will mark the first attempt to inspect multiple spacecraft across different orbits in a single flight.

Every single tiny point on the map is a galaxy.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket roars to life during a roughly 20-second static fire test of its seven BE-4 engines. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket roared to life in a critical pre-launch demonstration of its main engines Thursday, less than an hour after the Sun crested over the horizon in Florida.

Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS is days away from its close pass of the sun during an event known as perihelion.

"They are truly ready for long duration space flights and lunar habitation."

Three Earth observation satellites, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with European partners, and due to launch later this year, have completed their functional and environmental tests and are ready to travel to the European spaceport in French Guiana. But first, journalists were invited to have one last look.

As Artemis 2 approached, my anticipation was mixed with uncertainty. Would this new Moon mission spark the wonder and excitement I'd felt during Apollo? Those doubts didn't last long.

Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars outside of our own Solar System. The discovery and study of these distant worlds have revolutionized our understanding of planetary formation and the potential for life beyond Earth.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands in the launch position at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of prelaunch testing for the NG-3 mission. Image: Blue Origin

Days ahead of the planned third launch of a New Glenn rocket, Blue Origin was tapped by the U.S. Space Force to proceed towards developing its first launch site in California.