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Lunar maria or 'seas' formed when lava flooded impact basins billions of years ago.

SpaceX is targeting a whopping 170 orbital liftoffs in 2025, which would shatter the record the company set just last year.

A supernova remnant (SNR) discovered by astrophysicist Miroslav Filipović of Western Sydney University displays an astonishingly spherical shape.

SpaceX launched an advanced GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force today (May 30), less than three months after getting the official go-ahead.

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Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the second time a tidal disruption event has been seen in interacting galaxies.

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Connecticut as speedy solar winds and an incoming CME fuel geomagnetic storm conditions.

A newly found object could be a dwarf planet that contradicts the Planet Nine hypothesis.

SpaceX plans to launch the new "Version 3" of its Starship megarocket by the end of 2025 and is working to send the vehicle to Mars a year later, Elon Musk said.

As the bright star Regulus and the Beehive Cluster shine close by.

Blue Origin plans to launch its 12th human spaceflight mission today (May 31), and you can watch the action live here at Space.com.

A brilliant meteor streak is captured as it plunges through Earth's atmosphere over Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.

Climate scientists are gathering on YouTube for 100 hours to talk about the importance of weather research amid White House funding cuts.

Saturday's celestial concert salutes ESA's 50th anniversary and 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II.

ESA is preparing a mission to study and land on asteroid Apophis during its close encounter with Earth in 2029. NASA is also looking into a possible Apophis effort but faces funding issues.

The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again, discovering the "mother of all early galaxies," a record-breaking distant object that existed just 280 billion years after the Big Bang.

The Trump administration's 2026 budget request cuts NASA funding by $6 billion, which would lead to the cancellation of Mars sample-return and other high-profile missions.

On Episode 163 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss Starship's recent test flight with reporter Mike Wall.

It was likely a sporadic meteor unrelated to any major shower.

Venus will rise in the eastern sky in the pre-dawn hours of June 1 alongside Saturn and Neptune.

Blue Origin completed its 12th human spaceflight today (May 31), flying six passengers on a 10-minute trip beyond the Karman Line and back.