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The energetic core of a distant galaxy blasts past the record for brightest object in the early universe, blazing with the light equivalent to 600 trillion suns.

Assembly of the test-flight version of SpaceX’s Mars-colonizing “Starship” vehicle is now complete, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk announced Thursday night (Jan. 10).

NASA’s InSight Mars lander is officially hunting for quakes on the Red Planet.

A Lego model of NASA’s proposed Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has landed here at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

The latest taxi test of the giant aircraft being developed by Stratolaunch for its air-launch system is a sign the plane’s first flight may take place soon.

The ongoing partial government shutdown has upended aspects of a major astronomy conference this week but has not, for now, affected operations of NASA astrophysics missions.

The ongoing partial government shutdown has grounded a NASA aircraft used for astronomical observations amid reviews about how to operate that program in the future.

Blue Origin expects to start flying people on its New Shepard suborbital vehicle early this year, but has yet to start selling tickets or even establish a ticket price for future commercial flights.

A spectacular new video gives a lander’s-eye view of the first-ever touchdown on the moon’s mysterious far side.

There’s a Starman waiting in the sky, and now in stores, too.

SpaceX will launch 10 communications satellites and attempt a rocket landing Friday morning (Jan. 11), and you can watch all the action live.

NASA still hasn’t launched its new James Webb Space Telescope, but the agency is already preparing for an even bigger and better space observatory to succeed it.

The Hayabusa2 probe will swoop down to the 3,000-foot-wide (900 meters) asteroid Ryugu’s surface for the first time during the week of Feb. 18.

China’s far-side moon rover Yutu 2 has woken up from its nap as planned, according to Chinese media reports.

A weirdly bright and brief blast dubbed “The Cow,” which researchers first spotted last June, was likely generated by a newborn black hole or superdense stellar corpse called a neutron star, a new study reports.

Here’s something you don’t see every day: Earth, the moon and a potentially dangerous asteroid, all in the same frame.

The sort of small, young, active stars that have become most exciting to astronomers looking for exoplanets may actually push away precisely what could be necessary to carry water to those planets — leaving them too dry to support life.

The crumbs left over from a supermassive black hole’s recent meal have allowed scientists to calculate the monster’s rotation rate, and the results are mind-boggling.

Marvel fans are getting more excited as each new snippet of footage and tidbit of info for the forthcoming “Captain Marvel” makes its way onto the internet.

On January 10, 1946, the U.S. army bounced radar signals off of Earth’s moon for the first time ever. Known as “Project Diana,” this was the first experiment in radio astronomy. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series!

Solar systems are messy places, but the tools astronomers use to understand these systems can re-create that chaos with surprising beauty.

On January 10, 1946, the U.S. army bounced radar signals off of Earth’s moon for the first time ever. Known as “Project Diana,” this was the first experiment in radio astronomy. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series!

This Virgin Galactic spin-off aims to launch hundreds of small satellites into space at once, aboard their large LauncherOne rocket.

One of Earth’s nearest exoplanet neighbors, the planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, may still have a chance at hosting life, despite its frigid temperatures.

With research on extraterrestrial life continuing across the world, a noted researcher from the SETI Institute launched a new tool to help researchers keep track of results.

The first uncrewed test flight of SpaceX’s new Dragon spacecraft for astronauts will now launch no earlier than February, NASA officials said today (Jan. 10).

While the partial government shutdown has left thousands of workers without a paycheck, it is also taking a toll on the space science community. Research projects are put on hold while observatories get ready to close down.

Space.com’s editors present a reading list for space and sci-fi lovers, as well as children who are interested in astronomy and spaceflight.

A hardware problem has put the main camera onboard the Hubble Space Telescope out of operation, according to a brief statement released by NASA today (Jan. 9).

NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander was a recycled spacecraft that became the first spacecraft to sample water on Mars.

The latest film in 2009 Star Trek franchise has reportedly been canceled.

The latest film in 2009 Star Trek franchise has reportedly been canceled.

In mid-November, the fickle Leonid meteor shower hits Earth once again. The annual shower will peak Nov. 17.

The Orionid meteor shower is set to peak on the night of Oct. 22-23, but a bright moon will disrupt viewing until shortly before dawn.

On January 9, 1643, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Riccioli saw a weird glowing light on the night side of Venus. He named it “The Ashen Light of Venus.” See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series!

Here’s Space.com’s guide to some of the most exciting space movies of 2019: “Star Wars,” “Ad Astra,” “Avengers: Endgame” and more.

The proposed “Interstellar Probe” mission would aim to reach 90 billion miles (145 billion kilometers) from the sun, pushing the limits of engineering know-how and space technology.

Citizen scientists unveiled a distant exoplanet that is believed to be roughly twice the size of Earth and located within its star’s habitable zone.

SpaceX’s final launch of the Iridium Next communications constellation has been delayed again, according to the satellite company, with liftoff now targeted for no earlier than Jan. 11.

The evidence for aliens around one of the weirdest stars in our galaxy — Boyajian’s star — is not looking promising.

Bacteria on the International Space Station are evolving and changing in the strange orbital environment. But they don’t seem to be any more dangerous to humans.

The Draconid meteor shower peaks Oct. 8 with an outburst, but the full moon will wash it out.

The small asteroid that broke up over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013, was a reminder about the importance of monitoring small bodies in space that could pose a threat to Earth.

While the Taurid meteor shower doesn’t have a lot of shooting stars to offer, the few that will streak across the sky may be bright and spectacular.

The 2019 Ursid meteor shower will peak the night of Dec. 21-22, with expected rates of about 10 meteors per hour.

We get some more Brie Larson/Sam Jackson this time.

The Geminid meteor shower peaks the night of Dec. 13-14. This guide tells you the best times and places to see these shooting stars (no equipment necessary).

This year, try and catch one of the night sky’s most spectacular and accessible shows — a meteor shower. Here’s a guide to what you can expect from the 2019 meteor showers.

From Drax to Dune?

The marketing gets higher, further, faster.

Overnight from Jan. 20 to Jan. 21, 2019, millions of people in North and South America can enjoy a full hour of a total lunar eclipse.

Elliptical galaxies are dim collections of older stars, so they don’t shine as brightly as spiral galaxies but they’re the most common type of galaxies in the universe.

Feel like visiting another star system or dimension? You can do this by traveling through a spacetime portal of a black hole. But you better choose carefully. All black holes are not created equal.

Astronomers have spotted 13 more mysterious fast radio bursts, including the second repeating source of these extragalactic light flashes ever discovered.

An instrument aboard the International Space Station has helped reveal how black holes release brilliant flares of X-rays, a new study finds.

Entrepreneur Richard Branson aims to take paying passengers into space in the next few years.

The superdense stellar corpses known as white dwarfs solidify into crystal spheres over time, a new study suggests.

The much-delayed launch of the new U.S. spy satellite NROL-71 has been postponed again due to an issue with its rocket, but it’s unclear when exactly the mission may fly.

When the dinosaur-killing asteroid collided with Earth more than 65 million years ago, it did not go gently into that good night. Rather, it blasted a nearly mile-high tsunami through the Gulf of Mexico that caused chaos throughout the world’s oceans.

China’s Chang’e 4 lander and Yutu 2 rover have tested out payloads and systems on the far side of the moon, with the rover now taking a “noon nap” as a precaution against high temperatures.

A spooky new series of shots shows asteroid Bennu approaching the camera and receding into the distance during a spacecraft flyby.

When Neil Armstrong was preparing to leave the moon nearly 50 years ago, he allegedly thought the box holding the team’s rock samples looked a little empty. So he shoveled in some soil to top it off.

On January 8, 1973, the Soviet Union launched the Luna 21 mission to land a rover on the moon. This was the second time that the Soviet Union put a rover on the moon. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series!

The epic movie ‘First Man’ will come with a whole host of extras and featurettes when it’s released on Blu-ray and DVD.

Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have long inspired curiosity and speculation, but when did our fascination with UFOs really take off? The new television drama “Project Blue Book” explores the origins of the UFO phenomenon.

The Perseid meteor shower will burst into light this August as Earth passes through the long trail left by Comet Swift-Tuttle. This month, though, the moon may interfere with the show. Here’s how and when to see the Perseids.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower from late April to mid-May offers a long stretch of spectacular ‘shooting stars’ that even a casual observer can spot in the night sky.

DigitalGlobe announced Monday that its WorldView-4 satellite has malfunctioned.

SpaceX’s net-equipped boat came agonizingly close to plucking a falling payload fairing out of the sky during a recent test, a new video shows.

NASA said Jan. 4 it is delaying a planned visit to the United States by Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, a trip that had become increasingly controversial.

Researchers have identified a sixth planet orbiting the first star system discovered by the crowdsourcing project Exoplanet Explorers, a system with a unique resonance.

The emptiest space in the universe is full of gas.

The cosmos may be be breathtakingly beautiful, but it’s also deadly to human explorers.

Is our universe sitting on the edge of an expanding bubble?

A professional basketball player who made headlines by calling the Apollo moon landings into question has taken his “moon boot” out of his mouth and put it up for auction.

Laser-cooled plasma has all the chill.

Katherine Johnson, the now-retired NASA computer whose work on early human spaceflight milestones was highlighted in the blockbuster movie “Hidden Figures,” will publish an autobiography for young readers in September 2019.

On January 7, 1610, the Italian astronomer Galileo discovered three of Jupiter’s moons: Callisto, Europa and Io. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series!

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a ‘sub-Neptune’ planet orbiting the star HD 21749, which lies about 53 light-years from Earth.

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a ‘sub-Neptune’ planet orbiting the star HD 21749, which lies about 53 light-years from Earth.

SpaceX could take its prototype Mars-colonizing spaceship out for its first spin very soon.

The private spaceflight company SpaceX has moved its first Dragon spaceship designed for astronauts to the launchpad ahead of an uncrewed test flight that’s just weeks away.

Deep Space Industries (DSI), a company founded to pursue asteroid mining but which more recently has focused on smallsats, has been acquired by another space technology company.

In his first national security meeting as acting defense secretary, Patrick Shanahan said DoD should stay focused on the national defense strategy and the strategic competition with China.

The American Astronomical Society’s biggest annual gathering, a conference dubbed the “Super Bowl of astronomy,” kicks off in Seattle today (Jan. 6). But the team will be short a few hundred players this year, thanks to the government shutdown.

What shape is an electron? The answer, believe it or not, has implications for our understanding of the entire universe, and could reveal whether there are mysterious particles still to be discovered.

Past studies suggested there was less dark matter earlier on in the universe’s history.

Kuiper Belt objects like the one New Horizons just flew past are a dime a dozen, but scientists have detailed spacecraft observations of just three such distant, frozen worlds.

On January 6, 1968, NASA launched the seventh and final Surveyor spacecraft on a mission to explore the moon. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series!