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Living up to its Star Wars' namesake, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took flight again, delivering 29 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit on Sunday, May 4th, 2025 —Star Wars Day.

There's no lightsabers or planet-killing super-weapons (yet), but the latest season of the 'Rogue One' prequel shows what the Rebels are fighting against.

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to play all kinds of havoc on their orbiting circumbinary planets.

Lego has launched the first new Lego Star Wars set of 2025, and it's an absolute beauty, packed with details and 2,970-pieces, Star Wars fans and collectors will need to use the Force to grab this one.

The 2314-piece collectible Lego Star Wars R2-D2 is 30% off at its lowest-ever price for Star Wars Day this May 4th!

On Episode 159 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by David Bell to talk about the current and future potential for AI to revolutionize space exploration.

Astrophotographer Riste Spiroski has captured a striking view of the moon and Jupiter in the sky over Lake Ohrid, one of Europe's deepest and most ancient lakes.

The discovery of 2024 PT5, a small, rocky body dubbed a "minimoon" during its discovery last year, hints at a hidden population of lunar fragments traveling near Earth.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have confirmed the existence of the first known planet closely orbiting a dead star — offering new insights into how planets may evolve during the final stages of a star's life.

People who live near SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas will vote on Saturday (May 3) to determine if the site becomes an incorporated city.

The Ruko F11PRO 2 is a small drone featuring easy operation and a host of useful features but the small sensor in the camera produces soft images.

The White House's proposed 2026 budget would reshape NASA's Artemis moon program, canceling the Gateway space station and retiring the SLS rocket and Orion capsule after two more flights.

"It would recklessly slash NASA’s science budget by 47%."

Gearbox is ready to talk about what's new in Borderlands 4, and the new entry in the iconic sci-fi FPS-RPG series looks like a blast.

Eta Aquarids are known for leaving glowing debris trails in their wake.

The White House's proposed 2026 budget cuts $6 billion in NASA funding and cancels Mars sample return and the Gateway moon-orbiting space station, among other projects.

Galaxy cluster Abell 1489, as imaged by the International Gemini Observatory, contains more than 200 of the gravitationally-bound systems of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas and dust.

SpaceX conducted a static fire test of a Starship upper-stage vehicle this week, continuing to gear up for the megarocket's ninth test flight.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed surface ice methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for life, including sugars — on trans-Neptunian objects.

DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is looking for a private company to build spacecraft to orbit the moon and search for water.

The soon-to-reenter Soviet Cosmos 482 Venus probe is getting increased attention by satellite trackers – and new imagery provides some interesting details.