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Under the untouched darkness of Chile's Atacama Desert, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope stands beneath an arching Milky Way.

Rocket Lab will launch its sixth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS this afternoon (Nov. 5), and you can watch the action live.

Observing obstacles plague all amateur astronomers, but when the chance arises, we can still embrace unanticipated wonder.

November's full supermoon occurs as the moon draws close to Earth in its 27-day orbit.

The back-to-back eruptions caused radio blackouts across two hemispheres as the active sunspots turn to face Earth.

Don't miss 2025's closest full moon with this free livestream from Italy with the Virtual Telescope Project. The livestream will begin at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT)

An ultra-high-resolution instrument on board NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has been suffering from blurry vision. AI helped fix the problem.

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This shimmering view of interstellar gas and dust was captured by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. The nebula is part of a so-called dark cloud, named LDN 1641. It sits at about 1300 light-years from Earth, within a sprawling complex of dusty gas clouds where stars are being formed, in the constellation of Orion.

President Donald Trump has tapped billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman to be NASA chief, five months after pulling his nomination for the same post.

File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the planned liftoff of the Starlink 6-61 mission on Oct. 22, 2024. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is preparing to launch its first batch of Starlink satellites in November. The company has at least eight such missions planned before the Thanksgiving Day holiday.

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The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:02 CET (18:02 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

Polaris Dawn Commander Jared Isaacman sits down with Matt Anderson, the chief growth officer for the Space Force Association, during the second annual Spacepower Conference to discuss human spaceflight. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now

Update Nov. 5, 8:10 a.m. EST (1310 UTC): Added comments from Sean Duffy.

"The James Webb Space Telescope has opened a new frontier in extragalactic astrophysics, revealing objects we didn't even suspect existed, and we're only at the beginning of this adventure."

The brief flashes were captured from Earth and could be from the Taurid meteor shower.

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The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:03 CET (18:03 local time) on board an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. 

"This discovery ends a protracted search for these waves that has its origins in the 1940s."

China's Shenzhou 20 and 21 astronauts enjoyed freshly cooked BBQ aboard the Tiangong space station recently, thanks to a new microgravity oven.

Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 195This pivotal event marked the beginning of the Space Age and ignited the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States. Its successful launch stunned the world and had a profound impact on science, technology, and global politics.

Scientists have set about discovering if dark matter behaves like ordinary matter in the cosmos, with the answer revealing more about this mysterious "stuff" and casting doubt on the existence of a fifth fundamental force of nature.