Spaceflight

The ispace Resilience lunar lander crash on June 5, 2025 created a dark smudge surrounded by a subtle bright halo, as imaged here by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

NASA moon orbiter spies grave of crashed Japanese lunar lander (image)

By Leonard David published

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the Tokyo-based company ispace.

Missions
A Starship upper stage on the test stand at the Massey's site at SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas.

SpaceX traces Starship test-stand explosion to failure of pressurized nitrogen tank

By Mike Wall published

The giant explosion that destroyed a SpaceX Starship vehicle on the test stand this week was likely caused by the failure of a pressurized nitrogen tank, the company said.

Launches & Spacecraft
A black and white rocket with crew capsule at the top, connected to a gantry leading to a black tower. In the foreground, short bushes in front of the launch pad.

Leak on International Space Station delays SpaceX launch of Axiom-4 astronauts

By Josh Dinner published

An ongoing leak aboard the International Space Station is once again delaying the launch of Axiom Space's next private astronaut mission.

Private Spaceflight
a triple-core rocket blasts off under a sunny, partly cloudy blue sky. smoke expands below next to an obscured launch tower, near a long white hanger with SPACEX written on the side. To the left, a bird flies away.

Rocket launch today: Is there a rocket launch and what time?

By Josh Dinner, Tariq Malik last updated

Follow Space.com's rocket launch blog for the latest on when the next rocket launch will be and how to follow it live.

Launches & Spacecraft
A Rocket Lab Electron booster carrying 13 NASA satellites, including 10 cubesats for agency's Educational Launch of Nanosatellites program, lifts off from the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand's North Island on Dec. 16, 2018 on the ElaNa-19 mission.

High winds scrub Rocket Lab's planned launch of a secret satellite to orbit

By Mike Wall last updated

Rocket Lab planned to launch a satellite for a confidential customer early Friday morning (June 20), but Mother Nature didn't cooperate.

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Science & Astronomy

An illustration of our spinning universe as part of a wider multiverse

A spinning universe could crack the mysteries of dark energy and our place in the multiverse

By Robert Lea published

The universe seems to be spinning, and that could explain what dark energy is and why it's weakening while revealing our place within the multiverse.

Astronomy
The radio emission of Tailed Radio Galaxy, observed at 144 MHz with an angular resolution of 0.34 \00d7 0.24 arcseconds, shows a complex and filament-rich structure. In the upper right corner, a close-up of the region centered on the host galaxy is shown, whose nucleus is indicated with a red cross

This galaxy cluster has mysterious cosmic tendrils over 200,000 light-years long (image)

By Robert Lea published

Astronomers have taken an unprecedentedly detailed look at the tendrils and filaments that wrap around supermassive black hole-dominated galaxies of Abell 2255.

Galaxies
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