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Moon Near the Edge

Made with a telescope shaded from bright sunlight by an umbrella,

From a garden on planet Earth, 38 hours of exposure

What's at the tip of this interstellar jet?

Sometimes, the Moon visits the Pleiades.

How much mass do flocculent spirals hide?

What created this unusual hole in Mars?

Blue Origin will launch an all-female spaceflight with Katy Perry on Monday morning (April 14), and you can watch the historic action live.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Saturday (April 12), carrying 21 Starlink satellites to orbit.

One of the challenges of searching for life in the Universe is that there is no single universal biosignature that could reveal its presence. Even if we could tell the difference between chemicals produced by living organisms and those from non-living sources like volcanoes, we're still making the assumption that alien life would resemble life on Earth. A new paper proposes that missions search for “energy-ordered resource stratification” which only happens when both self-replication and ecological competition are present.

James Neihouse had one more thing to share. He pulled out a frame displaying strips of tape, each of which had notes from astronauts who filmed the IMAX movie "The Dream is Alive" 40 years ago.

A new soft robotic arm and its controller break down naturally

The pop star is leaning into STEM ahead of her spaceflight.

On Episode 156 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik welcome Phil Metzger to discuss the dangerous realities of rocket plumes.

SpaceX launched the ninth batch of "proliferated architecture" spy satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from Calfornia's central coast today (April 12).

Why are there so many moonquakes?

If the perennially versatile 'Doctor Who' isn't a mixed bag, it isn't fulfilling its true potential.

Blue Origin will stream the launch of its next suborbital tourism mission, which features a star-studded, all-female crew, on April 14.