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The Super Flower Blood Moon, a total lunar eclipse, occurs tonight (May 15). Here's what to know and where to watch.

A partial solar eclipse coincided with sunset in April 2022. This image tracks the movements of the sun and eclipse stages.

Boeing's Starliner capsule is all set to launch on its second uncrewed flight test to the International Space Station, 2.5 years after failing on its first try.

A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral on Saturday with the Starlink 4-15 mission. Credit: SpaceX

More than half of the spacecraft SpaceX needs to fill the company’s first-generation fleet of 4,408 Starlink satellites are now in orbit, following the addition of 106 new internet relay nodes launched on two Falcon 9 rockets Friday and Saturday.

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Starlink 4-15 mission will launch SpaceX’s next batch of 53 Starlink broadband satellites. Follow us on Twitter.

A Blood Moon total lunar eclipse will occur this weekend and here's when to watch it.

Here is every stage of the Super Flower Blood Moon of May 2022 with a timetable for the total lunar eclipse.

Tiny Snake Island has hosted some fierce fighting during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as new satellite photos show.

SpaceX plans to launch and land a rocket on Saturday (May 14), its second such effort in less than 24 hours.

Arcade Fire's Win Butler talks with Space.com about the band's new record "We" and the black holes that helped inspire it.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbs into the sky over Vandenberg Space Force Base to begin the Starlink 4-13 mission. Credit: Gene Blevins / LA Daily News

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Friday afternoon from California’s Central Coast with another batch 53 Starlink internet satellites, pushing the total number of spacecraft launched in the network above 2,500, including testbeds and prototypes already cycled out of the network.

Jeff Bezos' aerospace company announced today (May 13) that it's targeting May 20 for the launch of NS-21, the next crewed flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle.

Retired NASA eclipse scientist Fred Espenak has been watching the night sky ever since he was eight years old, and plans once again to look up for the forthcoming lunar eclipse Sunday (May 15).

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins is seen floating above Earth in a new photo from the International Space Station.

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California with 53 Starlink internet satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

Devastating wildfires in New Mexico fueled by high winds are visible from space.

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft descends under parachutes on Dec. 22, 2019, at the conclusion of the Orbital Flight Test-1 mission. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

Members of NASA’s independent safety advisory panel on Thursday cautioned the space agency not to rush toward a crew test flight of Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft, and voiced concerns about final certification of the capsule’s parachutes and Boeing staffing levels on the program.

File photo of a Hyperbola 1 rocket undergoing launch preparations. Credit: i-Space

A small satellite launcher developed by the Chinese startup iSpace failed to place its Earth observing payload into orbit Friday, the third consecutive failure for the company’s Hyperbola 1 rocket.

During the so-called Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse, the face of the moon will turn a brick-red hue. Here's why.

More than 50 years after the first Apollo samples were brought to Earth, scientists have successfully grown plants in lunar soil for the first time.