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September 14
- SpaceX could get license for 2nd Starship launch in October, FAA says
- Stunning James Webb Space Telescope image shows young star blasting supersonic jets
- Our universe holds more 'spectacular' polar ring galaxies than once thought, scientists say
- Where to stand in Texas to see two solar eclipses in under six months
- Space is 'more contested' than ever by world's militaries, US Space Force chief says
- SpaceX will launch 22 Starlink satellites early Sept. 15 — if Hurricane Lee doesn't interfere
- Hubble Space Telescope discovers 11-billion-year-old galaxy hidden in a quasar's glare
- A 'Planet Nine' far from Earth could explain the odd behavior of icy bodies beyond Neptune
- Humanity's current space behavior 'unsustainable,' European Space Agency report warns
- Virgin Galactic to launch next space tourist mission on Oct. 5
- Watch China's Shenzhou 16 astronauts clean the Tiangong space station (video)
- NASA UFO report finds no evidence of 'extraterrestrial origin' for UAP sightings
- The other astronauts in 'A Million Miles Away' react to the new film and its focus
- This was the hottest summer ever recorded on Earth
- Luna-25 failure won't be end of Russia's moon program, Putin says
- Astronomers weigh ancient galaxies' dark matter haloes for 1st time
- September's new moon points the way to Mars, Jupiter and more
- 'Lightning' on Venus is actually meteors burning up in planet's atmosphere, study says
September 13
- 'It's been an incredible challenge:' NASA astronaut tells all on setting new record for longest US spaceflight (video)
- Scientists may finally know why the sun's outer atmosphere is so freakishly hot
- James Webb Space Telescope watches seasons change on Saturn (video)
- Einstein cross! Gravitationally lensed 'flower' spotted in deep space (photo)
- Vladimir Putin meets North Korea's Kim Jong-un at Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome spaceport for 5-hour summit
- 'I am horrified': Archaeologists are fuming over ancient human relative remains sent to edge of space
- Devastation wrought by Medicane Daniel revealed in satellite photos
- 7 places in the US Southwest to see rare 'edge effects' during annular solar eclipse on Oct. 14
- Axiom Space names Ax-3 astronaut crew for SpaceX mission to ISS
- China sends record-setting Tianzhou 5 cargo spacecraft to fiery death (video)
- Russia rolls Soyuz rocket to the pad ahead of Sept. 15 astronaut launch to ISS (photos)
- 'For All Mankind' needs recruits for Mars in 4th season on Apple TV+ (video)
- NASA's Lucy asteroid-hopping probe captures 1st snapshot of space rock 'Dinky' (photo)
- A big telescope on the moon could peer deeper into the universe than James Webb
- 'Ahsoka' season 1 episode 5 review: The trip down memory lane fans were waiting for
- James Webb Space Telescope deepens major debate over universe's expansion rate
- NASA's UFO study team to announce results Sept. 14. Here's how to watch live.
- Manfrotto Pro Backloader Light camera backpack review
- Asteroid Apophis will visit Earth in 2029. Why do scientists want NASA to send a probe there first?
- SpaceX completes required 'corrective actions' ahead of 2nd Starship flight, Elon Musk says
September 12
- UAE's 1st long-duration astronaut says a moon mission is within reach
- NASA astronaut Frank Rubio surprised by his accidental record in space (video)
- Neil deGrasse Tyson takes a 'candid look' at the history of spaceflight in new StarTalk book (exclusive)
- Not a fake, JFK 'choose the moon' lectern restored to public display
- Satellites watch rare, destructive Mediterranean hurricane Daniel swirl above the Sahara (photos)
- How does Earth's relationship with the sun affect our planet's climate?
- 'The Six' author Loren Grush: 1st female astronauts set example for picking woman to land on moon
- NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara ready for Soyuz launch to relieve delayed crew in space
- 'Space: 1999' documentary focusing on the iconic Eagle spacecraft launches campaign on Kickstarter (exclusive)
- New survey outlines what NASA must do over the next 10 years to help astronauts thrive beyond Earth
- See Comet Nishimura at its closest point to Earth this week. It won't visit again for 435 years.
- Astronomers may have discovered the closest black holes to Earth
- OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe heads toward Earth for Sept. 24 sample delivery
- Virgin Galactic just launched 2 million-year-old fossils of human ancestors to space on tourist flight
- India, NASA to cooperate on human spaceflight and planetary defense
- 1 year after launch failure, Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket remains grounded
September 11
- SpaceX launches 21 new Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket
- Boeing to test DARPA's upcoming 'Glide Breaker' hypersonic interceptor
- India's Chandrayaan-3 moon lander shines in radar images from lunar orbit (photos)
- Kombucha on Mars? It could be key for astronauts' survival off Earth
- Electronics on world's largest radio telescope are more radio-quiet than a smartphone on the moon
- China launches Yaogan 40 spy satellite on Long March 6A rocket (video)
- Exoplanet's surface may be covered in oceans, James Webb Space Telescope finds
- Get a sneak peek at Hulu alien-invasion flick 'No One Will Save You' (video)
- China wants ideas to name spaceship and lander for astronauts on the moon
- 'Star Trek's' Celia Rose Gooding reveals how she channels Lt. Uhura interview excerpt (exclusive)
- OSIRIS-REx's Dante Lauretta shares final preparations for Sept. 24 asteroid-sample return
- 'Artificial star' helps test satellite navigation systems (photo)
- Hitchhiking microbes on ISS cargo ships can make astronauts sick. Scientists have a solution
- Japan's SLIM moon lander is carrying this transforming ball robot (it's not BB-8)
- Astronaut Frank Rubio breaks US record on way to spending a year in space
- Mysterious moonquake traced to Apollo 17 lunar lander base
September 10
- Experience the Overview Effect with the Felix & Paul VR trilogy 'Space Explorers: Blue Marble'
- Globular cluster glitters in stunning new Hubble telescope photo
- Astronaut wields new space camera to see lightning strikes on Earth
- India's Chandrayaan-3 robotic moon explorers don't have heaters. Can they survive the frigid lunar night?
September 9
- The US Space Force has a new mission statement to secure everything 'in, from and to space'
- NASA may have unknowingly found and killed alien life on Mars 50 years ago, scientist claims
- Nightfox 100V night vision binoculars review
- India's lunar lander finds 1st evidence of a moonquake in decades
- Hurricane Lee looks absolutely terrifying in this footage from inside its eye (video)
September 8
- Ultra-powerful space explosion, 1st of its kind, may have been triggered by black hole star-destroyer
- NASA's mighty SLS megarocket for Artemis moonshots 'unaffordable' for sustained exploration, audit finds
- Watch Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket fire up its engine for the 1st time (video)
- SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites in nighttime liftoff (video)
- How NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory will search exoplanets for signs of alien life
- Venus is now a beacon in the early morning sky. Here's how to see it
- FAA closes investigation of SpaceX's Starship rocket launch mishap, 63 fixes needed
- New 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan' book goes behind the scenes of a true sci-fi classic (exclusive)
- Virgin Galactic launches 3 of its original space tourist customers to the final frontier (video)
- Why Artemis 2 moon launch with astronauts is different from Artemis 1
- How helicopters on Mars could find hidden magnetism in planet's crust
- EcoFlow DELTA 2 Max power station review
- Astronauts just 3D-printed knee cartilage in space for the 1st time and it's as weird as it sounds
- NASA's Perseverance Mars rover wraps up MOXIE oxygen-making experiment
- SpaceX's Starship rocket spotted from space ahead of key test flight (satellite photo)
- Warp into Star Trek Day 2023 today with new animated 'very Short Treks'
September 7
- Virgin Galactic will launch some of its 1st space tourist customers on 'Galactic 03' today. But who's flying?
- Atlas V rocket rolled to pad for 2nd time for 'Silent Barker' spysat launch (photos)
- Newfound Comet Nishimura got its tail blown off by a solar storm. It grew back and still looks gorgeous (photos)
- What is India's Aditya-L1 sun mission?
- India's Aditya-L1 solar probe takes an epic selfie with Earth and moon (photos, video)
- Powerful Hurricane Jova spotted from space (video)
- China launches classified Yaogan remote sensing satellites (video)
- Newly discovered asteroid zooms within 2,500 miles of Earth
- Who is Ezra Bridger?
- See the Great Square of Pegasus trot through the night sky this month
- This black hole is devouring a dying star — but it only feasts once a month
- US military scrubs hypersonic missile test launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Japanese brand Cosmology to provide skincare for astronauts aboard the ISS
- Celestron EclipSmart Travel Solar Scope 50 telescope review
- Dark matter 'clumps' found by tapping into Einstein's general relativity theory
- Enormous fireball meteor turns the sky over Turkey green in eerie viral video
- US test launches unarmed ballistic missile from Vandenberg Space Force Base
- Watch NASA's VIPER moon rover practice leaving its lunar lander (video)
- Japan launches SLIM moon lander, XRISM X-ray telescope on space doubleheader (video)
September 6
- Tropical Storm Lee could become an 'extremely dangerous major hurricane' by this weekend
- NASA's Ingenuity helicopter soars past 100 minutes of total Mars flight time
- Bubble of galaxies spanning 1 billion light-years could be a fossil of the Big Bang
- SpaceX launch of NASA's Psyche mission to bizarre metal asteroid just 1 month away
- Hubble Space Telescope sees lonely galaxy looming in isolation (photo)
- 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' drops a wild new Season 4 trailer and official poster (video)
- See the sun's atmosphere like never before thanks to a simple Solar Orbiter camera hack (video)
- Here's our last look at Europe's Aeolus satellite falling to its fiery death (photo)
- Orbiting debris trackers could be a game changer in space junk monitoring
- Could an 'Earth-like' planet be hiding in our solar system's outer reaches?
- Caroline Herschel was England's first female professional astronomer, but still lacks name recognition two centuries later
- Earliest magnetic galaxy ever detected offers clues about Milky Way history
- 'Ahsoka' season 1 episode 4 review: Fateful encounters and a return
- Eerie, ultra-detailed photo of a lightning 'sprite' exposes one of nature's least understood phenomena
- Space junk in Earth orbit and on the moon will increase with future missions − but nobody's in charge of cleaning it up
- See the half-lit last quarter moon ride the Bull tonight
- SpaceX stacks giant Starship rocket ahead of 2nd test flight (video, photos)
- Sleeping on the ISS isn't easy. This lamp for astronauts could help
September 5
- Australia launching moon rover on NASA Artemis mission as soon as 2026
- 'Twisty' new theory of gravity says information can escape black holes after all
- Black holes keep 'burping up' stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don't know why
- Star blows giant exoplanet's atmosphere away, leaving massive tail in its wake
- Is 'Starfield' a far-flung fantasy or a glimpse of mankind's space-bound future?
- Supermassive black hole accretion disk seen 'on the edge' for 1st time
- Sex between space tourists will happen eventually. But are we ready for babies conceived off Earth?
- Tiny satellites use AI to sniff for methane leaks on the ground (photos)
- India's Chandrayaan-3 moon lander spotted from lunar orbit (photo)
- Weirdly wobbly jets may be evidence of elusive supermassive black hole pairings
- 'Star Trek: Picard's Academy' comic shows how a young Jean-Luc got schooled
- Perseverance Mars rover spots 'shark fin' and 'crab claw' rocks on Red Planet (photo)
- 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite could reveal how Earth formed different layers
- Photographer captures rare 'gigantic jets' of upside-down lightning blasting out of Atlantic hurricane
- Europe hopes to announce Ariane 6 debut flight date by the end of October
- Europe assembles Hera spacecraft to eye aftermath of DART asteroid crash (video, photos)
- The ozone hole above Antarctica opened early this year. Huge Tonga undersea volcano eruption may be to blame
September 4
- Marvel's 'Predator vs. Wolverine #1' claws its way through 8 awesome variant covers
- Astronauts on ISS can face muscle loss in microgravity – a new ESA experiment may help
- Chandrayaan-3 rover and lander in sleep mode but might wake up later this month
- 'NightWatch' stargazing guide scores a brand-new updated edition for 2023
- Star Trek Day 2023: How to celebrate Trek's 1966 'Original Series' today with warptastic specials
- Hundreds of supernova remnants remain hidden in our galaxy. These astronomers want to find them
- Galaxy shapes can help identify wrinkles in space caused by the Big Bang
- NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission almost bit the dust — then Queen guitarist Brian May stepped in
- The European Space Agency has a transparency problem — but it's completely legal
- See the moon meet up with Jupiter in the night sky tonight
- SpaceX's Crew-6 astronauts splash down after 6-month stay on ISS
September 3
- India's Chandrayaan-3 landed on the south pole of the moon − a space policy expert explains what this means for India and the global race to the moon
- Did 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'' second season overdo the gimmicks?
- Taking out the trash: Here's how private companies could be vital for space debris removal
- SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on record-breaking 62nd mission of the year
- Boom's supersonic jet moves toward debut flight (photos)
September 2
- SpaceX Dragon with Crew-6 astronauts undocks from space station. Here's how to watch its landing live tonight.
- NASA's Ingenuity helicopter flies on Mars for the 56th time
- India tests parachutes for Gaganyaan crew capsule using a rocket sled (video)
- India launches Aditya-L1 solar observatory, its 1st-ever sun probe
September 1
- Crucial test of Europe's long-delayed Ariane 6 rocket delayed
- Atomic clocks on Earth could reveal secrets about dark matter across the universe
- 'Invasion' Season 2 will feature alien hunter-killers and an homage to 'The Abyss' water tentacle (exclusive)
- Amazing satellite video shows China's space station come together in Earth orbit (video)
- SpaceX, NASA delay Crew-6 Dragon astronauts' return to Earth due to bad weather
- Best alien invasion games of all time
- Lego Star Wars Dagobah Jedi Training Diorama review
- Watch Chandrayaan-3's Pragyan rover adorably avoid a lunar crater (video)
- SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts say goodbye from ISS and prepare for return to Earth
- You can watch India's Aditya-L1 solar probe launch live on Sept. 2. Here's what it will do.
- Star-studded stellar nursery shines in new Hubble Telescope photo