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As Beijing prepares to tackle space debris, transparency and trust will determine whether the effort is viewed as stewardship or a strategic threat.

SpaceX launched 28 more of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today (Oct. 7), sending them up from Florida's Space Coast.

On Monday (Oct. 6), the nonprofit Planetary Society held a "day of action" to urge Congress to restore NASA's science funding, which was slashed nearly in half in the White House's proposed 2026 federal budget.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Starlink 10-59 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein / Spaceflight Now

Update Oct. 7, 3:08 a.m. EDT (0708 UTC): SpaceX landed its first stage booster.

You've explored outer space and battled aliens alone, but now it's time to buddy up with the best co-op space games to play with friends.

As we bring more human consciousness to space, we'll bring with it our human religions while finding new names for new types of spiritual experiences unique to space.

As just one of all the living creatures on Earth, you're along for the ride as our planet constantly moves in two major ways.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may have captured an image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS streaking across the sky above the Red Planet.

Watch Alien: Earth in its entirety and Prey, the precursor to Predator: Badlands, on Hulu with over 20% off for three months before the price increases.

Tune in to see this year's first supermoon as it lights up the autumn sky above the Italian countryside.

The company Inversion just unveiled Arc, a spacecraft designed to serve as an orbital storehouse and superfast delivery system for mission-critical gear, getting it anywhere on Earth in less than an hour.

Image specialist Andy Saunders on mining NASA's archives for the ultimate record of America's early space programs

The experience of truly dark skies is one that no one should miss.

To keep the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at peak performance, ESO engineers carefully recoat its enormous mirrors.

The U.S. government shut down the same day Juno's last mission extension expired, putting the status of the mission in limbo.

See the full Harvest Supermoon rise at sunset on Oct. 6.

Satellite navigation is essential to everything from tracking your morning jog to landing air ambulances. But as reliance on satellite navigation grows, so do the risks associated with its interruption, natural or intentional. In its pursuit of strengthening European resilience in navigation, the European Space Agency (ESA) took part in Jammertest.

The discovery of the "hot Jupiter" exoplanet 51 Pegasi b on Oct. 6, 1995 changed the course of astronomical history.