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An artist's rendering of NOAA's GOES-19 satellite in orbit.

The newest GOES weather satellite in NOAA's fleet is now fully operational (video)

By Meredith Garofalo published

The powerful GOES-19 satellites, one of the most advanced ever built, has taken on a new name.

Earth
A bird flies in front of a NASA symbol on a building.

Elon Musk's DOGE team given 'alarming degree' of access to NASA systems, House Democrats say

By Monisha Ravisetti published

"None of these three individuals possess the slightest background or experience in space policy or government service."

Earth
An illustration shows a large galaxy ripping a smaller galaxy apart by dragging stars away from it

A gravitational war next door: The Large Magellanic Cloud is gradually destroying the Small Magellanic Cloud

By Robert Lea published

The Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud are at war, with the larger of these dwarf galaxies ripping the other apart.

The Universe
Solar Orbiter took this image of the sun during its close approach in March 2022. At that time, the spacecraft was closer to the star than the solar system's innermost planet Mercury.

The sun just leaked a huge amount of helium-3 — the rare isotope scientists want to harvest on the moon

By Victoria Corless published

The sun was caught bursting out a huge quantity of helium-3, an isotope that's scarce in our solar system.

The Sun
a composite of two photographs of full moons, one showing a smaller micromoon and another showing a larger supermoon

Watch April's Full Pink 'micromoon' rise this weekend with a free telescope livestream

By Samantha Mathewson published

The Full Pink Moon rises Saturday (April 12), marking the farthest, smallest and faintest full moon of the year, and you can watch it live online.

The moon
a comet with a long tail streaks through a star filled sky above trees.

What to expect from the newfound Comet Swan: An observer's guide

By Joe Rao published

Here's an observers' guide to the newly discovered Comet 2025 F2 (SWAN), which is visible in northern skies right now.

Comets
A monster black hole awakens and begins blasting out X-ray bursts

NASA spacecraft spots monster black hole bursting with X-rays 'releasing a hundred times more energy than we have seen elsewhere'

By Robert Lea published

Astronomers have used space-based telescopes, including NASA's Swift X-ray observatory, to watch a monster black hole spring to life with powerful X-ray eruptions.

Black Holes
A white satellite dish is huge and faces the sky.

NASA's Deep Space Network is getting a new dish to help distant spacecraft phone home

By Monisha Ravisetti published

NASA's Deep Space Network is getting a new dish. This one will be at the DSN facility in Canberra, Australia.

The Universe
A person drawing on a piece of paper in the darkness. Three other pieces of paper show the sun.

Trump administration's NOAA layoffs affected the space weather service that tracks solar storms

By Meredith Garofalo published

Experts share why Trump-mandated cuts to the NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center share is a big deal.

Earth
An image of the Chang'e 6 lander on the lunar surface at the far side of the moon

China's Chang'e 6 lunar samples suggest our moon is debris from an ancient Earth impact

By Keith Cooper published

Analysis of samples brought back from the farside of the Moon by the Chang'e 6 mission have found the water content of the lunar farside mantle is much more depleted compared to the nearside.

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