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See the moon shine with famous red star Antares in the southern sky on June 9

Antares is a red supergiant star located 400 light-years from Earth.

Space

China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft sends home 1st photo as it heads for mysterious 'quasi-moon' asteroid

China has revealed the first image from its Tianwen 2 asteroid sample return mission, which is now more than 3 million kilometers (1.9 million miles) from Earth.

Space

'In our spacesuit collection for movies, we have replicas of pretty much every historic spacesuit that's been into space.' How the son of an aerospace machinist built some of Hollywood's most iconic astronaut looks (exclusive)

"I've had a number of NASA personnel come up and think that the one that was theirs was ours, and they're shocked."

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Best space & sci-fi games on Nintendo Switch 2025: Metroid Prime, Citizen Sleeper, No Man's Sky, & more

You don't have to stay at home to enjoy great games. Game on the go with the best space and sci-fi games on the Nintendo Switch.

Space

SpaceX fires up Super Heavy booster ahead of Starship's 10th test flight (video)

SpaceX conducted a static-fire test with one of its Super Heavy boosters today (June 6), part of the prep work for the next test flight of the Starship megarocket.

Space

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 164 — Goodbye NASA?

On Episode 164 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss these concerning times for NASA with Casey Dreier, the Chief of Space Policy for The Planetary Society.

Space

It's been nearly a century since Chicago saw a powerful dust storm like this (photos)

A historic dust storm hit Chicago last month, and a weather satellite gave us a bird's-eye view of the dramatic event.

Space

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Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism

Psychologist and writer’s appearance on Aporia condemned for helping to normalise ‘dangerous, discredited ideas’

The Guardian - US

June's full 'Strawberry Moon' illuminates the night sky this week: Here's how to see it

Don't miss the 2025 full "Strawberry Moon" when it rises above the southeastern horizon on June 10.

Space

The animals that keep a beat

The ability to keep a beat was once thought to be uniquely human. Some animals are suggesting otherwise

Salon

'Flying Banana' traveling 125 mph fires laser into sky and catches aurora hunters off guard (video)

"The first time I spotted it, I thought at first it may have been a rare form of blue aurora but then realised it was moving too quickly."

Space

SpaceX launches Sirius XM radio satellite to orbit, lands rocket on ship at sea (video, photos)

SpaceX launched the SXM-10 satellite for SiriusXM early Saturday morning (June 7), adding another spacecraft to the company's broadcasting constellation.

Space

Saving Gateway, SLS and Orion? Sen. Ted Cruz proposes $10 billion more for NASA's moon and Mars efforts

Sen. Ted Cruz's newly unveiled legislative directives for Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill would dedicate almost $10 billion to win the new space race with China.

Space

Powerful solar telescope unveils ultra-fine magnetic 'curtains' on the sun's surface

The sharpest images ever captured of the sun reveal intricate magnetic structures dancing across its surface.

Space

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"Bad trips" can have surprising benefits

Psychedelics can cause long-lasting challenging experiences. In certain settings, they can be transformative

Space

Catch Jupiter and Mercury side by side in the evening sky this week

The solar system's largest and smallest planets will greet one another in the eastern sky.

Space

European Mars orbiter spies crumbling crater 'soaked in layers of Martian history' (photo)

The Mars Express probe captured a striking new view of a Martian crater that holds clues to the planet's dynamic history spanning billions of years.

Space

Vast cosmic voids are far from empty — they're hiding something dark

The vast, seemingly empty spaces between galaxies are not entirely empty. So what's in these cosmic voids?

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Atlas V rocket to launch Amazon’s 2nd batch of Kuiper internet satellites on June 16

The second big batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper internet satellites will launch next Monday (June 16) from Florida, if all goes to plan.

Space

'Predator: Killer of Killers' is a battle across history that doesn't dwell on the franchise's past

The latest Predator movie – the series’ first foray into animation – is much more than a quick retread of old ideas in three distant settings.

Space

A hidden 'super-Earth' exoplanet is dipping in and out of its habitable zone

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very different to Earth.

Salon

Trump budget bill is assault on hospice

Hospice businesses depend on reimbursements from Medicare to provide comfort and end-of-life support

Space

Why does NASA's Perseverance rover keep taking pictures of this maze on Mars?

NASA's Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument.

Al Jazeera

Japanese firm declares lunar mission a failure after crash landing

The failed mission comes two years after the Japanese start-up’s first moonshot ended in a crash landing.

Space

Elon Musk says SpaceX could begin 'decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft' after Trump threat to cancel contracts

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are having a very public disagreement at the moment, and NASA could get caught in the crosshairs.

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