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On Feb. 3, 2006, astronauts at the International Space Station tossed an empty spacesuit into space all by itself … for science. See how it happened here in our On This Day in Space video series.

Three powerful space observatories reveal the Whirlpool Galaxy as a wonder of star formation and star death in a new video from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) that operates the Hubble Space Telescope.

Taking the temperature of a star bomb.

The device, built to be portable enough for use in space, produces a beam of laser light that changes less over time than any other laser humanity has created.

On Feb. 2, 1967, the U.S. Air Force launched a top-secret surveillance satellite called Key Hole 7-36. See how it happened here in our On This Day in Space video series.

The private space race is about to take another great leap as Israel sends a private lander to the moon.

There’s a giant void hiding under the Antarctic ice, and it’s growing larger and more menacing by the day, a new study using satellite data finds.

If we are to save people from natural disasters, we must continue to invest in satellites that further our ability to see the planet, because satellites provide us with important information about our planet.

There’s gourmet coffee, and then there’s coffee roasted by the searing heat of re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere from the edge of space.

China’s many missions to explore the red moon.

The longest government shutdown in American history is over, but the damage it inflicted on the nation’s space program may be felt for years to come.

So much happens in the latest episode of “Star Trek: Discovery” that it’s hard to keep up.

Americans across the Midwest and Northeast can agree on one thing — it’s really, really cold this week — and a NASA satellite monitoring air temperatures confirms the sentiment.

Boldly going where no Enterprise has gone before.

Boldly going where no Enterprise has gone before.

The space shuttle Columbia broke up on Feb. 1, 2003, killing its seven-member crew. An investigation led to changes in NASA procedures.

China’s Chang’e 4 lander and rover made it through their first night on the moon’s far side, surviving temperatures that plunged as low as minus 310 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 190 degrees Celsius).

China’s Chang’e 4 lander and rover made it through their first night on the moon’s far side, surviving temperatures that plunged as low as minus 310 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 190 degrees Celsius).

A NASA scientist has visited a four-year-old island that satellites watched rise out of the waters — a rare opportunity to see in person a new island that lasts more than a few months.

Find out what’s up in your night sky during February 2019 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

Crashing a giant space rock into a young planet can strip off some or all of its atmosphere, creating a wealth of different types of worlds.

See what’s up in the night sky for February 2019, including stargazing events and the moon’s phases, in this Space.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

In “The Lego Movie 2,” there’s no better way to fly around space than in the Rexcelsior, the fist-shaped spaceship of Rex Dangervest that’s ready to punch its way into (and out) trouble. See awesome photos of the new set here!

On Feb. 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart as it returned to Earth after spending more than two weeks in space. See how it happened here in our On This Day in Space video series.

Available Feb. 1, the newest collectible minifigures series from Lego stars Benny the Spaceman with a robot arm and so much more from “The Lego Movie 2!” Check out the photos here.

If you like science and you’re a curious person, you’re going to love “How It Works,” our sister publication that explores all the interesting questions about humans, the natural world and the entire universe. Below, you can read an entire issue for free.

The new moon occurs Feb. 4, at 4:04 p.m. EST (2104 GMT), two days after our satellite makes a close pass by Saturn and a day before it reaches apogee, the farthest point in its orbit from Earth.

The ‘dark’ side of the moon isn’t really darker than the ‘light side of the moon. But it does appear to get colder at night.

Boeing is on track to launch its new astronaut taxi to the International Space Station (ISS) next month.

Here’s how to see three naked-eye planets visible in February’s night sky.

If you love Space.com, then do we have a special treat for you. Our sister publication All About Space is offering a free look at their print magazine and you can see read it online here.

If you love Space.com, then do we have a special treat for you. Our sister publication All About Space is offering a free look at their print magazine and you can see read it online here.

Dr. Finn gets romantically involved with yet another alien in “The Orville” episode “A Happy Refrain.”

Dr. Finn gets romantically involved with yet another alien in “The Orville” episode “A Happy Refrain.”

A Belgian artist who saw his creation left on the moon as a tribute to fallen astronauts has now realized his original idea for the statuette.

SpaceX’s giant Falcon Heavy rocket could take to the skies five weeks from now, if everything goes according to plan.

SpaceX’s giant Falcon Heavy rocket could take to the skies five weeks from now, if everything goes according to plan.

Captured from the platform of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, this image shows four moveable, 1.8-meter auxiliary telescopes operating under a starry sky.

From the International Space Station’s orbit about 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth, crewmembers enjoy unique — and stunning — views of our home planet, as new footage from the station shows once again.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning new view of a spiral galaxy that wandered too close to the massive Coma galaxy cluster and is being stripped of its gas.

Writer Michael Moreci talks about how his and artist Hayden Sherman’s series is seguing from limited series to ongoing.

Earth’s magnetic field nearly collapsed about 565 million years ago, but the planet’s core froze solid and saved it in the nick of time, a new study suggests.

To celebrate 20 years of the Force being with Lego Star Wars fans, the Lego Group has designed five new special-edition sets featuring ships from all over the galaxy.

For sale: Meteor that nearly destroyed Siberia. Lightly used.

This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. And one small step (and giant leap) will celebrate that milestone in a distinct, creative way.

On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket and became the first hominid to go to space. See how it happened here in our On This Day in Space video series.

White House draft policy memo: After the Space Force is established, the secretary of defense has to conduct a “periodic review” and recommend a timeline for spinning off the Space Force into its own military department.

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a dwarf galaxy in our own cosmic backyard, a mere 30 million light-years from the Milky Way.

The Israeli company that built a privately funded lunar lander scheduled for launch next month is partnering with a German firm to offer similar landers for future European Space Agency missions.

China has built the world’s first robotic, partially submersible boat for launching sounding rockets — a technology that will help meteorologists better understand the atmosphere over Earth’s oceans.

The main contractor for the Chinese space program is planning more than 30 launches in 2019, with major missions including the crucial return-to-flight of the heavy-lift Long March 5 rocket in July.

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has flexed some new scientific muscles, apparently solving a Red Planet puzzle in the process.

A lightweight object resembling an empty trash bag is winging around Earth in a truly bizarre orbit.

A meteorologist explains the science behind the historic weather event hitting the Midwest and Plains right now.

It’s winter in the United States, and swaths of the country are experiencing bitter cold brought on by a phenomenon nicknamed the polar vortex, a pattern weather satellites are watching closely.

It’s winter in the United States, and swaths of the country are experiencing bitter cold brought on by a phenomenon nicknamed the polar vortex, a pattern weather satellites are watching closely.

SpaceX’s net-equipped ship had a fairing temporarily in its clutches during a recent test off the California coast, a newly released SpaceX video shows.

Earth’s north magnetic pole is so out of whack that scientists need to update the global magnetic-field model they released only four years ago. Could that be a sign that the magnetic pole will flip soon?

Today, only the Russians regularly bring people to space. By the end of 2019, several private U.S. companies could join them — including Blue Origin, which announced its intentions last week.

A sea of stars shimmers throughout the colossal Lagoon Nebula in this deep-space photo.

On January 30, 1964, NASA launched the Ranger 6 spacecraft on a mission to obtain the first-ever close-up images of the surface of the moon. See how it happened here in our On This Day in Space video series.

As Duke Leto Atreides!

Dark energy is even more mysterious than astronomers had thought, a new study suggests.

Pioneers 10 and 11, Voyagers 1 and 2, and New Horizons are the only spacecraft currently capable of leaving the solar system. Which one will be the next to go?

A laser pulse glanced off a rubidium atom and entered the quantum world — taking on the weird physics of Schrödinger’s cat.

NASA will hold its annual Day of Remembrance on Feb. 7, agency officials announced Tuesday (Jan. 29).

When the moon’s in the sky, and Venus goes “goodbye,” that’s an occultation.

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is one of the most tantalizing worlds for exploration — which is why NASA scientists are deep in the process of designing Europa Clipper, a spacecraft meant to crack its secrets.

The far outer solar system is teeming with mountain-size space rocks left over from the long-ago planet-formation period, a new study suggests.

A time-lapse video combines 365 photos of the sun taken by the Proba-2 satellite in 2018.

The secretive mission of a U.S. Air Force X-37B miniature space plane just winged past 500 days in Earth orbit.

On January 29, 1989, a Soviet space probe named Phobos 2 arrived in orbit around Mars. This was the last space mission launched by the Soviet Union. See how it happened here in our On This Day in Space video series.

Just days after returning to work from five weeks of furlough, NASA employees convened for a town hall meeting with the agency’s administrator Jim Bridenstine today (Jan. 29) to discuss the implications of the longest government shutdown in history.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has completed its first loop around the sun and entered the second of 24 planned orbits.

The gravitational pull of a black hole is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape once it gets too close. However, there is one way to escape a black hole — but only if you’re a subatomic particle.

It’s hard to grasp the sheer amount of astronomical data that came online this week in a 1.6 petabyte data-dump from a Hawaiian telescope, but picture 30,000 Wikipedias or 15 Libraries of Congress.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has redesigned its active space-debris-removal demonstration mission concept e.Deorbit as a multipurpose, in-orbit servicing vehicle that could be used to refuel, refurbish or re-boost satellites.


There is a splat on Mars.

New Horizons’ historic flyby of the KBO 2014 MU69, or Ultima Thule, is revealing incredible insights about the birth of the solar system.

What if you could visit the International Space Station, join its crew for their daily activities and even go on a spacewalk — all without leaving your home, let alone the ground?

We all edit our selfies to capture our best sides, and the Curiosity rover on Mars is no different, as shown in a new “selfie” NASA released to mark the rover’s last days at Vera Rubin Ridge.

On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff, killing the seven crewmembers on board. See how it happened here in our On This Day in Space video series.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is orbiting an asteroid closer than any spacecraft has ever orbited a body — and it shows in an incredible pair of photographs that the team released yesterday (Jan. 24).

Lengthy space missions such as a journey to Mars may take a serious toll on astronauts’ immune systems, a recent study suggests.

There are some universal certainties. Death. Taxes. The second law of thermodynamics.

A new video from SpaceX, unveiled via Twitter Friday (Jan. 25), offers a glimpse of what NASA astronauts will see when they board a Crew Dragon spacecraft.

A new scan of an International Space Station module shows several hundred impact craters from “marauding” debris, according to the European Space Agency. But so far, the hull of the European Columbus science laboratory is doing its job.

One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most famous images peered even deeper into the cosmos than scientists had thought.

To paraphrase the words spoken by Buzz Aldrin when he first set foot on the moon, the new trailer for “Apollo 11” is “magnificent resolution.” The video offers a glimpse of the never-before-seen footage from the historic first moon landing mission 50 year

The China National Space Administration has launched two rockets so far in 2019, placing five satellites in orbit for a variety of uses.

Swarm Technologies, the startup that ran afoul of the FCC last year for its unauthorized launch, has raised $25 million to continue building and deploying a constellation of 150 very small satellites.

Chinese private companies OneSpace and iSpace are making progress with plans to attempt their first orbital launches in the first half of 2019.