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Week in images: 21-25 August 2023 Discover our week through the lens

Using the ESO's VLT, an international team of observers was able to study Neptune's Great Dark Spot with a ground-based telescope for the first time. The post One of Neptune's Dark Spots Finally Seen From Earth appeared ...

When supermassive black holes barrel toward collision, they can reach speeds of up to 1/10th the speed of light, new research suggests.

Saturn will be directly opposite of the sun on Aug. 26 and 27, making this weekend a great time to observe the ringed gas giant.

SpaceX says it successfully test-fired the booster for its next Starship launch, although that liftoff may still be weeks away. The post SpaceX test-fires booster for second Starship launch appeared first on SpaceNews.

With its budget being trimmed for 2024, NASA is making some weighty decisions... and one includes drastically trimming New Horizons funds by replacing the current science staff with a new team.

United Launch Alliance rolled its Atlas V rocket to the launch pad today (Aug. 25), ahead of the planned Aug. 29 liftoff of the 'Silent Barker' reconnaissance mission.

Japan plans to launch a mini moon lander called SLIM and an X-ray space observatory atop a single rocket on Sunday (Aug. 27), and you can watch live.

NASA and SpaceX will try again on Saturday to send the next crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station.

The first images from NASA's new space-borne air pollution sensor reveal how levels of toxic pollutants change within a day across the United States.

SpaceX fired up its huge new Starship Super Heavy booster for the second time today (Aug. 25), keeping the vehicle on track for a test flight in the near future.

Nothing can evoke an existential perspective-spiral quite like looking at an image of a galaxy. At first glance, these sublime structures may appear rather serene. But in fact the center of many galaxies is a turbulent e...

A new study from China's Yutu-2 moon rover reveals how intense volcanic eruptions once poured across the moon's surface.

This beautiful, simple Lego set is a real artistic celebration of space.

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will send the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, to our natural satellite to demonstrate accurate lunar landing techniques.

One of the precision formation flying Proba-3 satellites as seen from the other during ground testing. The pair will fly in orbit relative to one another down to millimeter scale precision, but in order to do this must k...

Sedaro, a startup that develops digital engineering software, won a Space Force contract to demonstrate the use of digital twins to design spacecraft. The post Sedaro wins Space Force contract to develop spacecraft digit...

A pair of X-ray telescopes have observed the messy aftermath of a star that came too close to a supermassive black hole 290 million light-years away. It's believed that the star had three times the mass of the Sun, so th...

There are more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets in our galaxy. That number is going to rise significantly in the next decade. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has already cataloged more than 4,000 candidat...

Watch India's Chandrayaan-3's Pragyan rover step onto the moon's surface for the first time and have its picture taken from orbit.

Netflix released the first full trailer for Zack Snyder's two-part sci-fi epic, "Rebel Moon" which premieres this December.

Learn how researchers are developing new ways to discover what's on the inside of planet Earth.