Tank for 1st Artemis touchdown on the moon | Space photo of the day for April 29, 2025
At NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, the liquid hydrogen tank for the Artemis 3 Space Launch System rocket was moved into the factory's final assembly area on April 22, 2025.
We got a trio of new 'Alien: Earth' trailers last week, and one hints at alien 'monsters' that aren't the xenomorphs (video)
What's this about five different alien creatures from five different worlds?
US Army launches hypersonic missile from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
The U.S. Army launched its new hypersonic missile from Cape Canaveral Space Force station last week, just days after naming it the "Dark Eagle."
AI designs 50 gravitational wave detectors that could outperform human-made ones
Artificial intelligence could offer a powerful pathway to supercharge our ability to "hear" the universe, according to new research.
The pursuit of truths: A letter on the boy who cried aliens (op-ed)
As scientists, we must not forget our collective direction: the pursuit of truths and our responsibility to share these truths — and only these truths — with humanity.
See a wafer-thin crescent moon leapfrog Jupiter this week
The crescent moon will seemingly jump over the planet Jupiter between the nights of April 29 and April 30.
40-year-old spy satellite photos are helping find forgotten land mines in Cambodia
Long-forgotten mine fields in Cambodia are being revealed in decades-old, recently declassified images from U.S. military satellites.
Brand-new Falcon 9 rocket sends 23 Starlink satellites to orbit on SpaceX's 2nd launch of the day (video)
SpaceX sent another batch of Starlink satellites to orbit tonight (April 28), its second liftoff of the day.
Amazon launches 27 satellites to begin building huge 'Project Kuiper' internet constellation (video)
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched the first big batch of satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband constellation to low Earth orbit today (April 28).
Watch Vega-C rocket launch European forest-monitoring satellite to orbit on April 29
The European Space Agency's Biomass forest-monitoring satellite will launch atop a Vega-C rocket early Tuesday morning (April 29), and you can watch the liftoff live.
Pine Barrens ablaze as seen from orbit | Space photo of the day for April 28, 2025
Satellite imagery reveals scope of damage from one of the largest fires New Jersey has seen in decades.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 1st of 2 planned Starlink launches in 2 days, lands booster at sea (video)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
'I didn't look too good because I didn't feel too good': NASA astronaut Don Pettit explains why he seemed so unwell after landing (video)
Seventy-year-old NASA astronaut Don Pettit looked pretty peaked shortly after returning to Earth from the ISS this month. And he was pretty peaked — he'd just thrown up on the Kazakh steppe.
China's Shenzhou 20 astronauts take control of Tiangong space station (video)
China's outgoing Shenzhou 19 crew have handed over the reins of the Tiangong space station to a new set of astronauts.
The Outer Worlds 2: Release window, trailers, story details & everything else we know
Space isn't safe from money-hungry corporations, and sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds 2 will play with that idea in 2025. Here's everything we know about Obsidian's sci-fi sequel.
Meta Quest 3S review: Fantastic VR performance at a budget price
The Meta Quest 3S costs as little as $299.99, and with performance to match its big sibling, the Quest 3, it's an absolute winner.
Scientists find giant, hidden gas cloud only 300 light-years away: 'This cloud is literally glowing in the dark'
A newly found, huge cloud near our solar system probably won't form stars, but will rather disperse as part of a feedback cycle that regulates star formation.
NYT bestseller Daniel Wilson's next book is 'Hole in the Sky', an alien first contact story on a Cherokee reservation, and it's already been picked up by Netflix (interview)
'This really digs into two of my favorite things: where I'm from in Oklahoma, and robots and science fiction'
A failed Soviet Venus lander will fall back to Earth after being stranded for 53 years
A Venus lander launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 has been predicted to fall back to Earth some time in May.
What happens inside neutron stars, the universe's densest known objects?
Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts.