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An astronaut on the ISS photographed a "lunar halo" over the Indian Ocean, revealing ice and rare optical phenomena from ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has been helping scientists explore the cosmos for years now, but there are still plenty of ...

The Ursid meteor shower reaches peak visibility tonight with up to 10 meteors per hour visible across the UK - here's how to ...

The meteor shower is known for producing spectacular displays in the night sky and will be visible in skies across the UK, ...

A year-end recap of 2025 in space, covering NASA leadership changes, space policy, major missions, scientific discoveries and key events across orbit and beyond.

Learn how to watch interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it makes its final flyby of Earth today at 153,000mph before disappearing ...

The summer solstice is the moment in which, for a given hemisphere, the Earth’s axis is oriented in the most direct way possible towards the Sun. In the northern hemisphere it usually falls on 20 or ...

President Trump signed an executive order to return to the Moon by 2028 and prepare for Mars, a move seen as a direct ...

Washington moved to reset the direction of its civil and military space ambitions after President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order in December 2025 committing the United States to a ...