Two studies led by NASA astrophysicists show how LISA could find planets around pairs of white dwarfs, a population no telescope has yet detected, and how Webb could check the…
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Coming up in the sky
- NOV13Planet paradeMercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter before dawn, until Dec 4
- NOV16Mars and Jupiter meetAbout 1 degree apart in the morning sky
- NOV16-17Leonid meteor showerPeak night
- NOV20Mercury’s best morning viewFarthest from the Sun in our sky (20°): look before sunrise
- NOV24Full Moon: Beaver MoonRises at sunset and stays up all night
- DEC13-14Geminid meteor showerPeak night, 40-50 an hour under dark skies
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Mars rovers today: Where Perseverance and Curiosity are and their latest pictures
Two NASA rovers still work on Mars: Perseverance, which just broke Opportunity's driving record,…
When is the next solar eclipse? Dates and viewing regions
The 2026 total eclipse has passed; the next is an annular eclipse on Feb.…
Planets4 bright planetsSaturn after sunsetVenus before dawnMars before dawnJupiter before dawnWhere to look ›MoonWaxing Crescent5% lit, waxingRise and set times ›Northern lightsQuietKp 2.3 now, up to 3 in the next 24 hours.Your chance tonight ›Space stationNext passChoose your city to see when the ISS passes over you.Live map ›
- Voyager’s team to take questions a day after the probe passes one light-day
- Why Uranus and Neptune have lopsided magnetic fields, and how fast they may change
- Two black holes already feeding on a grand scale, only 900 million years after the Big Bang
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USSF-627Falcon 9 Block 5 · SpaceX- Kuaizhou 11 launchKuaizhou 11 · ExPace
Demo FlightMir · Agency for Defense Development
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A swirl on the Sun’s surface may explain why its atmosphere is so hot
A new paper links tiny swirls on the Sun's surface, recently imaged by the Inouye Solar Telescope, to the long-standing puzzle of why the…
Curiosity tests doing two jobs at once to save power as its output slowly falls
During a short recharge break in its Nazca drilling campaign, Curiosity tested running two tasks at once so the rover can stay…
Perseverance’s first rock sample in over a year may be among its oldest
After a failed attempt on a rock too hard to drill, Perseverance cored a 'Singita' sample from a neighboring light-toned rock that…
Mars rover finds the signature of ruby’s mineral in light-toned rocks
SuperCam on NASA's Perseverance rover detected narrow red light from chromium in corundum, the mineral rubies are made of, in pale rocks…
A hidden black hole or neutron star may be behind a star’s 113-day eruptions
Chandra's first X-ray detection of a star that mimics supernovae points to a hidden black hole or neutron star pulling gas from…
Two Mars probes used Earth as a slingshot, two days apart, and both burns worked
NASA's two ESCAPADE spacecraft each swung past Earth with a 9-minute engine burn, the first powered Earth flyby NASA has used to…
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Asteroid 99942 Apophis: How close it passes on April 13, 2029, and how to see it
On April 13, 2029, the asteroid Apophis passes about 32,000 km above Earth, closer than many…
ESCAPADE’s twin Mars probes swing past Earth with a 9-minute burn on Nov. 7 and 9
Each of NASA's two ESCAPADE spacecraft will fly past Earth on Nov. 7 and Nov. 9…
Starbase could host up to 456 Starship launches a year, FAA review says
The FAA has opened scoping for an environmental impact statement covering up to 456 Starship-Super Heavy…
3I/ATLAS carries methane with 13 times more heavy hydrogen than any comet we have measured
Webb spectra of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show methane with 3.18% heavy hydrogen, higher than any methane…
Vietnam is the 78th country on the Artemis Accords, a week after Uzbekistan
Vietnam's science minister signed the Artemis Accords in Ha Long, NASA said, making it the 78th…
Voyager 1 went silent for two days, then returned on its own
NASA's Voyager 1 went quiet on Oct. 18 and 19 and reappeared on Oct. 20 without…
Leaving Earth soon
Full launch schedule ›- NOV12SpaceXUSSF-627Falcon 9 · Government/Top Secret02:35 UTC
- NOV12ExPaceKuaizhou 11 launchKuaizhou 11around 19:00 UTC
- NOV13Agency for Defense DevelopmentDemo FlightMir · Test Flightaround 05:00 UTCOne to watch
- NOV13United Launch AllianceAmazon LeoVulcan VC6L · Communications17:54 UTC
Times in your time zone. Launch times change often; the schedule refreshes every few minutes.
Rocket Launches
Starship will try to fly itself back to Starbase and be caught by the tower on Flight 15
- India’s GSLV-F18 puts NVS-03 navigation satellite into its planned orbit
- Japan sets Mars moons mission launch for Oct. 19 UTC, with a Phobos sample due home in 2031
- Eight AI computing satellites ride Zhuque-2E in a 10-satellite launch
Missions
After 378 days in a Mars habitat, four volunteers step outside in Houston
- NASA lines up eight Moon lander firms for $10 billion and a nuclear rover
- Station’s last new solar array lifts its power by about 30% after a 7-hour spacewalk
- Voyager 1 is about to be one light-day from Earth, and NASA wants you to flash a light
Universe
Webb finds brown dwarfs only twice Jupiter’s mass, the lightest known
- Hubble’s new Messier 30 portrait shows a cluster the Milky Way may have captured
- Hubble catches a rocky planet slipping behind its star for the first time
- Hubble sees the dark ‘Cat’s Tail’ in visible light, a likely Pluto-scale crash
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How to see it, when it happens, what it means
Leonid meteor shower 2026: When it peaks on November 17 and how to watch
The Leonids peak around November 17 with up to about 15 meteors an hour under dark skies, and…
NASA Jupiter photos: The best Juno images and what they reveal about the giant planet
NASA's Juno spacecraft has photographed Jupiter from closer than any camera before it, and its images show deep…
James Webb Space Telescope images: Where to find them and what they have shown
NASA's image gallery holds every public Webb picture, free to download; here is how the images are made,…
Rocket launch from Vandenberg: Where to watch, how to check times and what to expect
Vandenberg launches can be seen from public roads, beaches and hills near Lompoc; the base, SpaceX and a…
The universe doesn’t stand still
Latest discoveries & stories
Student teams can win a share of $1 million by designing parts of NASA’s Moon Base
NASA's new Moon Base Student Challenge asks U.S. high school and college teams to design systems for a lunar South…
Astronaut applications open: NASA picks its next class for the Moon Base
NASA is taking applications for its next astronaut class until Dec. 3, with selection due in late 2027 for crews…
Tiny asteroid 2026 VL5 passed Earth at 0.14 lunar distances, first seen a day earlier
NASA/JPL data show asteroid 2026 VL5 passed Earth at 09:08 UTC on Nov. 7, about 55,545 km away, or 0.14…
Four decades of space junk damage, from Hubble’s dish to a shuttle window
NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office has put online photos of hardware pitted, holed and cracked by debris, from Hubble's antenna…
NASA unveils X-70 Fractal, a crewed X-plane built to be reconfigured fast
NASA revealed the crewed X-70 Fractal at Kennedy Space Center. The jet is meant to swap experiments quickly and to…
NASA picks 3 firms for up to $1.07 billion to replace aging relay satellites
Astranis, Global Enterprise Solutions and Viasat can each earn up to hundreds of millions of dollars to design Ka-band relays…
A drone rehearsed a Moon landing and steered itself away from a bad spot
NASA's SPLICE guidance payload flew simulated lunar descents on a drone, mapping the ground below and diverting if the target…
Rocket team launched into a solar flare in progress for the first time
A new alert system pinpoints a flare and predicts how long it will last, so sounding rockets can be fired…