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The sun fired off an X1.2-class solar flare on Friday (Jan. 3), triggering radio blackouts throughout parts of the South Atlantic ocean, Africa and South America.

SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 rocket of 2025 as it sent the Thuraya 4 communications satellite to orbit from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Friday (Jan. 3).

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls.

Aurora alert — a coronal hole is spewing fast solar wind toward Earth, potentially boosting geomagnetic activity and supercharging northern lights Jan. 4 to Jan. 5.

An independent review team is delivering a final report to NASA leadership to determine if the agency's Mars Sample Return mission is salvageable after facing scrutiny for its $11 billion budget.

Celestial fireworks that erupt all year long but last a fraction of a second, fast radio bursts, may have traced them to the immediate surroundings of extreme and highly magnetic dead stars.

This New Year's Day, NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home its first detailed telemetry data soon after its record-breaking closest-ever approach to the sun.

"Alien: Rogue Incursion" virtual reality game for PSVR and and PCVR available now

A newly discovered way for oxygen to form in carbon-dioxide-rich atmospheres of exoplanets could help guide scientists' search for alien life.

Kenya Space Agency officials report a large, “red-hot” metallic ring roughly 8 feet (2.5 meters) in diameter fell from the sky, crashing into Mukuku village.

Some black holes at the centers of galaxies have a buddy − but detecting these binary pairs isn’t easy

Fall 2024 makes history in the record books as the warmest on record in the past 130 years.

The 2025 Quadrantid meteor shower peaks overnight on Jan. 3, and could produce between 60 to 120 meteors per hour.

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang has scientists stumped.

Skeleton Crew's sixth episode splits the team apart ahead of their much-desired return to At Attin and a final confrontation with Jod.

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation in detail."

The Panasonic Leica Summilux DG 15mm f/1.7 ASPH is a Micro Four Thirds prime lens offering an equivalent focal length of 30mm.

Space.com's image of the day rounds up the most awe-inspiring space photos right here, with a new image everyday.

As the animated show comes to an end, we look back at the best 'Trek' gags from the final frontier.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is now the first drone to fly on a Rose Parade float. The floral-but-flight-worthy display is just one of the highlights on the JPL-inspired "Rover Rendezvous" float.