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The European Space Agency's HOBI-WAN project will test a food-production method on the International Space Station that could be used for long-duration missions to the moon and Mars.

An expert talks about the Office of Space Commerce (OSC) and its role in the wider regulatory landscape affecting commercial use of outer space.

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is located 2,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cepheus.

SpaceX launched 29 more of its Starlink broadband satellites today (Nov. 9), sending them up from Florida's Space Coast.

Blue Origin scrubbed a launch attempt of the NG-2 mission on Nov. 9, 2025, due to cumulus clouds in the area. Image: Spaceflight Now

Update Nov. 9, 5 p.m. EST (2200 UTC): Blue Origin scrubbed the mission and is assessing its next launch opportunity.

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The conflict between the brain's expectation of Earth's gravity and the reality of no gravity causes space motion sickness.

On Episode 185 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Josh Dinner to discuss NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center future, given it is in the administration's crosshairs.

The Holy Stone HS360E is a sub-250 g beginner drone with a basic automatic camera for capturing 4K photos and videos alongside some fun features.

The interstellar comet: Can you see it in your scope? Maybe you can, starting late this week as Comet 3I/ATLAS emerges from behind the Sun. If you have a large […]

Move over Xenomorph — these are the most mind-bendingly terrifying aliens in fiction.

Jupiter again teams up with the moon late Sunday night to put on an eye-catching show directly between Jupiter and the bright star Pollux, Gemini's brightest star.

"We expected to see this effect, but we were still surprised by just how efficient these stars seem to be at engulfing their close planets."

While media outlets have reported that curious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has changed color, the scientists behind a recent study say that isn't actually the case.

Space memorial company Celestis has opened reservations for its "Mars300" spaceflight that aims to send human remains to orbit around the Red Planet.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has revealed that the solar system's most volcanic body is even hotter than scientists thought.

A long-exposure shot of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket as it soars away from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to begin the Starlink 10-51 mission on Nov. 9, 2025. Image: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now

Update Nov. 9, 3:50 a.m. EST (0850 UTC): SpaceX landed its booster on the drone ship.

Excess heat detected at Saturn moon Enceladus' north pole helps to account for a finely balanced energy budget that keeps the moon's ocean liquefied. What could this mean in the search for life?

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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.

NASA's first dual-satellite mission to another planet, ESCAPADE, will study Mars' magnetic field and atmosphere in 3D to uncover how it lost its water and air.

The ESCAPADE Mars mission is scheduled to launch atop a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket on Sunday (Nov. 9), and you can watch the action live.