One bright dot or a line of many? A 5-step method to tell the ISS apart from a Starlink train — and from planes and meteors too.

Jupiter is a late-night naked-eye target this autumn. Six steps to find the giant planet tonight using the twinkle test and a free sky app.

The James Webb Space Telescope's s MIRI and NIRCam instruments have captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 2090. The galaxy is about 37 million light years away in the Columbia constellation. Also, see a view of NGC 2090 from the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: Space.com | ESA/Webb, ESA/Hubbl

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The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers estimate that there could be 100 million black holes wandering around our galaxy. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Watch how a single engine on the flight 7 SpaceX Starship was test fired to simulate an in-space burn. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: SpaceX | edited by Steve Spaleta

The incredible power of SpaceX Starship is on display in slow motion footage that show shockwaves propagating from the launch. Also, see slow motion footage of the atmospheric re-entry of Starship. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: SpaceX | edited by Steve Spaleta

Explore one of the most famous supernova remnants in our galaxy, Cassiopeia A, as seen through the powerful eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope. The detailed NIRCam image uncovers the beautiful and chaotic web of gas and dust left behind by a cosmic cataclysm. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy

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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827, located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, the Dove.

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The Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a "violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense radiation," according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Credit: ESO Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin

Incredible Views Of SpaceX Starship Re-Entering Earth's Atmosphere. Credit: SpaceX

NASA is playing an important role in JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission, to advance our understanding of Mars’ moons and build on the agency’s long history of exploring the Red Planet. The mission aims to characterize and determine the origin of Mars’

What was once just an animation is now a breathtaking reality. This epic video shows SpaceX's Starship successfully deploying V3 Starlink satellites, a major milestone in the company's quest for rapid and reusable space access.

NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts around the Moon and brought them safely back to Earth, laying a foundation for crewed flights to the Moon’s surface. Additional engineering data analysis of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield confirmed initial data showing the heat shield performed as e

NASA has selected 12 U.S. institutions to receive $12 million to accelerate academic research and technology development in support of the agency’s priorities for exploring the Moon, Mars, and deep space. Through NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) Space Technology Arte

James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Oldest Known Galaxy

A formation of radio waves looks remarkably like a treble clef in this Oct. 14, 2026, image from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Researchers used Chandra to find that the Treble Clef is likely caused by an outburst from a supermassive black hole, followed by a collision of two galaxy clusters. Rea

Fly through the cosmos to the star-forming region NGC 7129. This video showcases the incredible power of the James Webb Space Telescope to see through dust and gas, unveiling the intricate and colorful details of where stars are born.

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The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared and Mid-Infrared instruments (NIRCam & MIRI) have delivered imagery of interacting galaxies IC 1623, located 270 million light-years from Earth. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus & A. Evans, N. Bartmann | edited by Ste