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Researchers report the first observations of solar-like storm activity in the turbulent environment around a supermassive black hole, opening a new window on how matter behaves under extreme gravity.
A new citizen science effort invites volunteers to help astronomers locate the Milky Way's elusive stellar-mass black holes, which are far harder to detect than their supermassive counterparts.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch for NASA created a spectacular glowing jellyfish-shaped plume visible across the night sky, a phenomenon caused by exhaust gases interacting with the upper atmosphere and …
The Japanese space agency is leading a five-year mission to Phobos, one of Mars's two small moons, aiming to return samples that could explain how the Martian moons formed and …
A New York event called 'Mission: 60s' invites visitors to relive the Apollo era with a passport-style experience, celebrating the Space Age and its cultural legacy.
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying more than 6,300 pounds of supplies and hardware for the International Space Station, marking SpaceX's 35th commercial resupply mission for …
On Oct. 17, 2016, Orbital ATK's Antares rocket launched again from Virginia's Wallops Flight Facility, two years after a catastrophic explosion destroyed a previous mission and damaged the pad.
The Orionid meteor shower, produced by debris from Halley's Comet, returns in 2026 with peak viewing expected in late October. Here is what skywatchers need to know about timing, viewing …
The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory is designed to become the world's largest and most sensitive gamma-ray observatory, with more than 100 telescopes planned across sites in the northern and southern …
Engineers sharpened the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's view by moving a mirror one-sixteenth the width of a human hair, bringing its instruments into near-perfect alignment and delivering image quality …
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected a surprisingly orderly weather system on a turbulent exoplanet 20 light-years from Earth, with three recurring atmospheric states driven by temperature shifts and …
A SpaceX cargo mission has brought miniature brain models, 3D-printed heart tissue, and artificial retina technology to the International Space Station, where scientists hope microgravity will accelerate research into brain …
On Oct. 16, 1975, NASA launched GOES-1, the first in a series of geostationary weather satellites that transformed how the United States monitors storms, clouds, and the atmosphere from space.
A new 3D visualization of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, built from Rosetta spacecraft data, offers a fresh way to study the comet's rugged surface and the forces shaping it.
Astronomers studying an ultra-low-density exoplanet have identified signatures of gemstone-forming minerals in its atmosphere, offering a rare look at the chemistry of one of the puffiest worlds known.
The European Space Agency has released an image of part of West Antarctica taken by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite on 30 September 2026, offering a view of one of the …
A possible second-generation planet appears to have coalesced from material expelled by a dying star and is now being consumed by the white dwarf HS 0209+0832, TESS data suggest.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has appointed veteran engineer and aerospace executive Stephen Cash as director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, effective Oct. 19. Cash returns to …
A false alarm in the global hunt for banned nuclear tests led scientists to a mysterious signal from space. Now, four massive mirrors on the island of La Palma are …
Japan's space agency is set to launch the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft on October 20, aiming to land on Phobos, collect samples, and return them to Earth by 2031 …
