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Make no mistake: we are currently living in the Golden Age of space exploration. Right now, as you read these words, we have robots on the Moon, autonomous rovers on Mars, and roughly a half dozen asteroid mining companies prospecting for precious metals in space. What will happen tomorrow? Tune in to DT’s space coverage to get all the latest news and commentary on everything from SpaceX to space junk, and keep pace with all the most important things happening in the final frontier.

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SpaceX's Super Heavy booster during a ground-based engine test.

SpaceX preps the mighty Starship rocket for its 8th flight test

SpaceX has started preparations for the eighth flight test of its mighty Starship rocket, which could take place before the end of this month.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this feather-shaped iridescent cloud just after sunset on Jan. 27, 2023, the 3,724th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Studying the colors in iridescent clouds tells scientists something about particle size within the clouds and how they grow over time.

Mysterious colorful clouds drift through Mars’s sky in new Curiosity images

Artist's impression of an asteroid. This image is not intended to reflect the characteristics of any specific known asteroid.

James Webb to join observations of asteroid that could strike Earth in 2032

An animation of NASA's SLS rocket heading skyward.

Watch NASA’s ‘launch to splashdown’ video for Artemis II lunar mission

Euclid image of a bright Einstein ring around galaxy NGC 6505

Euclid telescope spots a rare Einstein Ring in a nearby galaxy

An aurora as seen from the space station 250 miles above Earth.

Watch this surreal aurora footage captured from the space station

Earth in a photo captured by Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost spacecraft as it makes its way to the moon.

Firefly’s lunar-bound spacecraft captures a ‘postcard shot’ of Earth

This artist’s illustration shows the largest radio jet ever found in the early Universe. The jet was first identified using the international Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Telescope, a network of radio telescopes throughout Europe. Follow-up observations in the near-infrared with the Gemini Near-Infrared Spectrograph (GNIRS), and in the optical with the Hobby Eberly Telescope, were obtained to paint a complete picture of the radio jet and the quasar producing it.

A 200,000 light-year wide monster jet from the early universe

Perseverance's 26th rock sample collected from the Martian surface.

NASA’s Mars rover collects rock sample ‘unlike anything we’ve seen before’

NASA astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station.

NASA to host first ever Twitch stream from International Space Station

Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will all light up the night sky alongside the Moon during National Astronomy Week from 1-9 February 2025.

How to see the best planet parade in decades, according to experts

LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth. Hubble and Keck also confirmed which galaxy dove through the Bullseye, creating these rings: the blue dwarf galaxy that sits to its immediate center-left.

Hubble spots a cosmic bullseye: a galaxy with nine rings

Blue Origin launches the New Shepard suborbital rocket on mission NS-29 in February 2025.

Blue Origin’s latest rocket flight included a lunar-like experience

In a first, the Jeff Bezos-led spaceflight company simulated lunar gravity on a suborbital rocket to test various science payloads.
SpaceX launches a Starlink mission in 2020.

Record-breaking five rockets to launch in 24 hours today

Today could see a new record for the highest number of rocket launches in a 24-hour period.
Firefly's Blue Ghost captures an image of Earth.

Lunar-bound Blue Ghost captures stunning video of Earth

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost spacecraft has captured a stunning video clip of Earth ahead of its arrival on the lunar surface.
A night time sky on the Nokia G60.

February is ‘a month of bright planets,’ NASA says in new skywatching update

NASA has shared details of what to look out for in the night sky this month, with the moon appearing alongside a parade of planets.
The Axiom Mission 4, or Ax-4, crew will launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than Spring 2025. From left to right: Tibor Kapu of Hungary, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland.

Axiom-4 crew includes first Indian space agency astronaut to travel to ISS

An upcoming private space mission will carry the first national astronauts from India, Hungary, and Poland to visit the International Space Station.
The Canadarm 2 robotic arm delivering Suni Williams to a worksite during a spacewalk outside the ISS.

Watch this ISS astronaut take a ride on a robotic arm 250 miles over London

The robotic arm delivered NASA astronaut Suni Williams to a worksite during a record-breaking spacewalk at the International Space Station.
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface.

Building blocks of life identified in sample collected from asteroid Bennu

A sample collected from asteroid Bennu shows that our solar system was teeming with the potential for life.
Artist's impression of an asteroid. This image is not intended to reflect the characteristics of any specific known asteroid.

Asteroid with a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 spotted by astronomers

Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid is estimated to be between 40 m and 100 m wide and is projected to come close to Earth in December 2032.
The moon and Earth as seen from the Orion spacecraft in November 2022.

NASA astronauts show how to fly the lunar-bound Orion spacecraft

NASA is preparing the Orion spacecraft for its first crewed flight around the moon. Here's how astronauts will fly it.
Astronaut Suni Williams is pictured during a six-hour spacewalk for science and maintenance on the International Space Station on Jan. 16, 2025.

How to watch this week’s spacewalk from the International Space Station

Two NASA astronauts are performing a spacewalk from the ISS on Thursday - here's how to watch.
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See the Blue Ghost spacecraft’s first view of the moon

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost mission has captured its first view of the moon.
An artist's rendition of NASA's SPHEREx space mission.

NASA video offers behind-the-scenes look at upcoming SPHEREx mission

Go behind the scenes with NASA's SPHEREx mission, which is set to launch next month.
A new USPS stamp featuring an image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.

Gorgeous James Webb Space Telescope images land on new U.S. stamps

The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new set of stamps celebrating the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space telescope ever made.
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How astronauts stay fit and healthy in space

NASA explains some of the experiments being performed on the International Space Station into human health and performance.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy situated about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa.

Hubble snaps another gorgeous image of the Tarantula Nebula

A new image from Hubble shows a beautiful patch of the famous Tarantula Nebula.
Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander captures the Blue Marble while in Earth orbit approximately 6,700 km above the planet on January 23, 2025.

See the incredible view of our planet captured by the Blue Ghost spacecraft

The Blue Ghost lunar mission has captured a gorgeous image of Earth as it ramps up its journey toward the moon.
Betsiboka estuary.

Astronaut’s stunning Earth photo looks like ‘arteries in your retina’

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has captured another remarkable shot, this one showing the Betsiboka River estuary in Madagascar.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

That 8-day Starliner space mission is now 233 days in

Yes, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are still aboard the space station, and won't be home for a while yet.
Firefly Aerospace

See a stunning view of a eclipse in space captured by the Blue Ghost mission

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost mission to the moon has captured stunning video of the Earth eclipsing the sun, as seen from space.
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Watch Blue Origin’s New Glenn recap, with close-ups of rocket launch

Blue Origin has shared a video recap of last week's maiden launch of the New Glenn, including dramatic close-up footage of the rocket leaving the launchpad.
This artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet’s equator. With a speed of 9 km per second (33 000 km/h), this is the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured in the Universe.

Wild supersonic winds whip around this extreme exoplanet

Astronomers have observed a wild exoplanet with winds reaching incredible speeds of up to 20,000 mph.
Don Pettit on the ISS.

This is the coolest camera lens swap you’ll ever see

Changing a camera lens can sometimes be a cumbersome affair. But not in space.

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