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Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky shared this photo of the International Space Station on Twitter on Sept. 29, 2021. He and two colleagues were relocating a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from one port to another at the time.

International Space Station: Live updates

By Space.com Staff last updated

Find out what's going on at the International Space Station.

International Space Station
graphic with night sky in large font and silhouettes of people below looking up at the night sky.

Night sky for tonight: Visible planets, stars and more in this evening's sky

By Jamie Carter last updated

Find out what you can see in the night sky for tonight, from planets and stars to dazzling meteor showers.

Stargazing
Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov performs a spacewalk in support of science and maintenance on the International Space Station on Aug. 18, 2014.

Watch 2 Russian cosmonauts spacewalk outside the ISS today

By Mike Wall published

Cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky will conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (Oct. 28), and you can watch the action live.

International Space Station

Northern lights may be visible in 14 US states tonight

By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to New York as geomagnetic storm conditions are predicted for tonight.

Auroras

Northern lights forecasts, alerts, and geomagnetic storm warnings - live updates

By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

The latest aurora forecast for tonight help you make sure you're in the right place at the right time to see the northern lights.

Auroras
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Oct. 27, 2025.

SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from California, lands rocket at sea

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink satellites today (Oct. 27), sending 28 of them up from California's central coast.

Launches & Spacecraft
A scene from Star Wars showing the Tatooine sunset(s).

Scientists discover 3 Earth-size exoplanets that may have double sunsets — like Tatooine in Star Wars

By Robert Lea published

Using NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter, astronomers have discovered a strange arrangement of exoplanets around tight binary stars that shouldn't be.

Exoplanets
Observations of Comet 3I/ATLAS taken using the Gemini South Observatory

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could help protect Earth from dangerous asteroids. Here's how

By Elizabeth Howell published

While interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will not come near our planet, future ones may. A new campaign seeks to improve orbit predictions.

Comets
A comet is pictured with a bright nucleus in the lower right of an image against the blackness of space, with a long tail extending diagonally to the upper right of the shot. A spiral or light is pictured, appearing to wrap around the comet and its tail, created by the trail of a passing meteor.

Glowing meteor trail photobombs Comet Lemmon in incredible telescope footage. 'A pure perspective miracle'

By Anthony Wood published

A meteor photobombed the patch of sky containing Comet Lemmon on Oct. 24, wrapping it in a glowing trail.

Stargazing
a parking lot filled with equipment and junk

SpaceX settles $15 million trespassing lawsuit with Cards Against Humanity

By Jeff Spry published

Elon Musk's rocket company is clearing out its "gravel, tractors and space junk" from a once-pristine plot of South Texas land.

Human Spaceflight
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