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June 30
- New 'Dune' film delayed again: report
- SpaceX launches 88 satellites into orbit and nails rocket landing
- Astra goes public, becomes 1st launch company to trade on Nasdaq
- Celebrate Asteroid Day 2021 with NASA and The Asteroid Foundation
- Russia says SpaceX Starlink satellite and space junk may narrowly miss Progress cargo ship in orbit
- Virgin Orbit launches 7 satellites on third-ever space mission
- New Relativity Space factory will host dozens of 3D printers for Terran rockets
- World's largest radio telescope to be built after almost 30 years of planning
- 'Moonikin' flying on NASA's Artemis 1 named for Apollo 13 engineer
- Does outer space end – or go on forever?
- Why is there so little water left on Mars?
- NASA to test new solar sail technology with launch in 2022
- Virgin Orbit will launch 7 satellites into orbit from carrier aircraft. Here's how to watch live.
- Astronomers spot 3,000 light-year 'light echo' of dying supermassive black hole
- The second wave of 'Star Wars: The High Republic' novels is here. Here's what to know.
June 29
- Russia's Progress cargo ship successfully launches to space station
- 'Star Trek: Prodigy' reveals cast and characters
- SpaceX rocket launch carrying 88 satellites delayed by a wayward plane
- Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo ship departs space station to begin new mission in orbit
- Half the country is facing an apocalyptic summer
- Could there be a link between interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua and unidentified aerial phenomena?
- Scientists catch 1st glimpse of a black hole swallowing a neutron star
- SpaceX's Starship could launch to orbit for 1st time as soon as July
- NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity could keep flying the Martian skies for months
- Dust problems draining power from NASA's InSight Mars lander
June 28
- China's president calls Shenzhou 12 astronauts on space station
- US Space Force has new guidelines for working at and around the moon
- Up in the air! US government's UFO report stirs range of reactions
- Wow! NASA photographer spots space station crossing the sun during spacewalk (video)
- Watch a SpaceX rocket ace landing on a drone ship in stunning new video
- No hope for life in Venus clouds, but maybe on Jupiter, study suggests
- Elusive new type of supernova, long sought by scientists, actually exists
- No quick fix for Hubble Space Telescope's computer glitch, NASA says
- Boiling 'baby bubble' where stars are born comes into view
- Earth has a 'pulse' of 27.5 million years
- None of the alien planets we know of could sustain life as we know it, study finds
- Mars may have dozens of lakes beneath its south pole
June 27
- Hear the 1st sounds from China's Mars rover Zhurong and watch it drive in new video
- Lego unveils epic Imperial Light Cruiser and more new Star Wars Mandalorian sets coming in August
- 'Observation' video game shows how an AI solves problems in space
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Panda: Adorable cartoon shows astronaut life on Chinese space station
- This 'charming' particle could have saved the universe
- Dramatic images capture rapid slide of Antarctic glacier
June 26
- Watch Day 3 of National Space Society's ISDC 2021 conference live today
- China is readying Shenzhou 13 spacecraft in case of space station emergency
- Mysterious flashes of radio light come in two 'flavors,' new survey finds
- Barbarella will launch on wild space adventures in new Dynamite comic series
- UFO sightings remain mysterious, US government report says
June 25
- Spacewalking astronauts deploy second new solar array for space station
- Virgin Galactic can fly passengers to suborbital space, FAA says
- Never-before-seen colossal comet on a trek toward the sun
- Chinese astronauts enjoying 120 dishes during space station stay
- These tiny indestructible tardigrades will reveal how to survive in extremes of space
- New map created by AI reveals hidden links between Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies
- Weird Neptune-like exoplanet may have water clouds
- Look up! Now is a great time to see Centaurus and his neighbors in the night sky
- 'First newspaper delivered to the moon' inspires first USA Today NFT
- Small-rocket startup bluShift announces 1st signed purchase order
- Did a comet strike 13,000 years ago change human civilization as we know it?
- Watch spacewalking astronauts add a new solar array to International Space Station today
- Watch NASA launch a small rocket with dozens of student experiments today!
June 24
- SpaceX delays launch of Transporter-2 rideshare mission on Falcon 9 rocket
- Giant ghostly 'hand' stretches through space in new X-ray views
- United Airlines wants planes from Boom Supersonic to fly passengers faster than the speed of sound
- 'Rosie the Rocketeer' dummy buckles up for Boeing's 2nd Starliner launch test
- Scientists just detected an earthquake from a balloon and might be able to do it on Venus, too
- 'Debris' on NBC is canceled after just one season
- Kerbal Space Program 2 could make your 1st launch a bit smoother in 2022
- Kerbal Space Program celebrates 10 years of challenging space launch physics
- Earth is trapping twice as much heat as it did in 2005
- NASA spacecraft spots China's Mars rover Zhurong heading south on Red Planet (photo)
- The full Strawberry Moon, the last supermoon of 2021, rises tonight! Here’s what to expect
June 23
- Get a galactic deal on these awesome 'Star Wars' bed sheets from Walmart
- Space Perspective starts selling seats for balloon rides to stratosphere
- More than 22,000 apply to join European Space Agency's astronaut corps, a new record
- The space race takes on a bizarre twist in Image Comics' new sci-fi series 'Primordial'
- Lockheed Martin wins $4.9 billion contract to build advanced missile-warning satellites
- Fortnite launches a 'Cosmic Summer' update with aliens and space-themed fun
- How to calculate the odds that an alien spaceship has been spotted
- Aliens could have spotted Earth cross the sun from more than 1,700 star systems
- China's Tiangong space station: What it is, what it's for, and how to see it
- Hubble Space Telescope's 1980s computer glitch may run deeper than NASA thought
- Citizen scientists discover 2 gas giants around a distant sun-like star
- Hubble Space Telescope finds galaxy with weirdly little dark matter
- Tide to develop first laundry detergent for astronauts' clothing on space station
- UK company to start sending secret quantum keys with satellites in 2023
- 'Strawberry Supermoon' on Thursday will get its own Krispy Kreme doughnut
- See the Hubble Space Telescope's iconic Pillars of Creation in Lego form
June 22
- Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series is over 50% off for Prime Day!
- Light up the night with Uncle Milton's 'Moon in My Room' for 40% off this Prime Day
- Celestron's PowerSeeker 127EQ telescope is 30% off for Prime Day
- Former astronaut Pam Melroy sworn in as NASA deputy chief
- Exclusive Q&A: Sci-fi author Martha Wells talks about her latest Murderbot novella, 'Fugitive Telemetry'
- NASA picks 3 new science experiments for commercial moon missions
- Build a Mars rover or an 'Infinity Gauntlet' with littleBits Inventor Kits, up to 40% off for Prime Day
- Play Trouble and Operation with Baby Yoda in Hasbro's Mandalorian Edition Games For Prime Day
- I bought these Estes model rockets for Prime Day so I can launch all summer long
- When this star blows, its planets will be turned into enormous pinballs
- These easy-to-use water and stomp rockets are up to 29% off for Prime Day
- Launch your own Space Corps with these huge Estes model rocket deals for Prime Day
- Perseverance Mars rover lands in huge 'Mars Horizon' space race game
- This Star Wars Baby Yoda Amazon Echo Dot Stand and Bundle is still 35% off for Prime Day
- This Celestron Universal Smartphone Adapter Prime Day deal will help you snap telescope photos in no time
- Plasma wind tunnel annihilates satellite model in atmospheric reentry test
- Huge new catalog of ultrabright 'fast radio bursts' may shed light on the structure of the universe
- Mars helicopter Ingenuity nails 8th flight on the Red Planet
- Save 32% on Amazon's Fire TV Stick in Star Wars Mandalorian Blue to stream your sci-fi this Prime Day
- China's moon rocks are ready to be loaned out for science research
- 'Giant arc' stretching 3.3 billion light-years across the cosmos shouldn't exist
- Russia wants to send cosmonauts to China space station
- Skies alive with UFOs? Government report on mysterious sightings due soon
June 21
- Build your own solar-powered robots with these Ciro STEM robotics kit deals for Prime Day
- You can make your own northern lights at home with this Airivo Star Projector deal for Prime Day
- Control the galaxy in 'Star Wars: Rebellion' with this 26% off Prime Day game deal
- Rocket that will launch Boeing's 1st crewed mission for NASA arrives in Florida (photos)
- Venus has a gooey flowing mantle jostling crust chunks on its surface
- You can get $20 off the sci-fi game 'Returnal' for Playstation 5 for Prime Day
- Grab this cute Baby Yoda 3D night light for 20% off on Prime Day
- National Geographic's Mega Science STEM kits for kids are 30% off for Prime Day
- Osmo's Little Genius Starter Kit is 45% off for Prime Day
- The edge of the solar system is a blob, 3D map reveals
- Save 31% on Bill Nye's VR Science Kit for kids right now for Prime Day
- ACE? Rigel? NASA wants help naming a 'Moonikin' that will fly around the moon
- Hubble Space Telescope sidelined by issue with its 1980s computer
- New spacecraft sustainability rating targets space junk
- Save 30% on Celestron's AstroMaster 130EQ telescope for Prime Day
- Chris Pratt battles future aliens in the final trailer for 'The Tomorrow War' from Amazon Studios
- You can save 20% on this Lego Star Wars Jedi Ski Speeder Microfighters set for Prime Day
- Famous Stephen Hawking theory about black holes confirmed
- Lego's A-wing Starfighter from 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' is 37% off for Prime Day
- Exclusive Q&A: 'Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy' video game drops new trailer
- Blast off to Planet Nine with 'The Crew' space card game for 31% off this Prime Day
- Build to Launch: Lego Education to bring NASA's Artemis 1 mission into classrooms
- NASA's new moon rocket, the Space Launch System, takes shape in giant hangar
- Record breaker: Scientists spot earliest known supermassive black hole 'storm'
- Earth's fifth ocean just confirmed
June 20
- Astronauts on spacewalk deploy first roll-out solar array to boost power for station
- Summer solstice 2021 on Father's Day, the longest of the year, marks Earth's changing seasons
- King Grimlock rules in IDW's wild 'Transformers' summer comic series
- 100,000 star nurseries mapped in first-of-its-kind survey
- Astronauts will install a new solar array on the International Space Station in a spacewalk today. Here's how to watch.
June 19
- Iconic 'Star Wars' X-wing fighter finds a new home at the Smithsonian Museum
- SpaceX stacking giant Super Heavy rocket ahead of Starship orbital flight test (photo)
- Humanity fights back in EPIX's 'War of the Worlds' season 2
June 18
- You can celebrate Captain Picard Day in 'Star Trek Fleet Command' right now
- US Postal Service releases 'Sun Science' stamps with NASA imagery
- Playmobil has an epic Star Trek USS Enterprise playset coming soon: report
- Hooded Horse unveils 3 new space strategy games in at E3. Here's their 1st trailer.
- NASA commemorates Juneteenth with historic view from space
- Turkey aims to send rocket to moon in three years, land lunar rover by 2030
- This week on the Space.com forums: Questioning dark matter, exploring space and a last chance to win!
- Dark matter is putting the brakes on our Milky Way galaxy's spin
- Space startup Launcher to fly an orbital platform filled with CubeSats on a SpaceX rocket in 2022
- Incredibly powerful megaflares from young stars are common, study shows
- Former astronaut Pam Melroy confirmed as NASA deputy administrator
June 17
- HBCU flags and 'Rosie' coins among Boeing Starliner OFT-2 cargo
- SpaceX's next astronaut launch for NASA delayed a week by 'visiting traffic' at space station
- SpaceX launches advanced GPS satellite for US Space Force, sticks rocket landing at sea
- You can watch SpaceX launch a new GPS satellite for the US Space Force today. Here's how.
- Mystery solved? Dust cloud caused Betelgeuse star's weird dimming, study finds
- Russia, China reveal moon base roadmap but no plans for astronaut trips yet
- Tantalizing Pluto views suggest active surface but won't be seen again for 161 years
- India's human spaceflight plans coming together despite delays
- China's Shenzhou 12 spacecraft docks at space station with 3 astronauts
- China launches 3 astronauts to new space station
June 16
- China will launch 3 astronauts to space station tonight
- China wants to build a sustainable human presence on Mars. Here's how.
- A new teaser trailer for 'Star Trek: Picard' season 2 is here and it's Q-tastic
- Spacewalking astronauts run out of time to roll out first of new solar arrays on space station
- Watch the 1st trailer for 'Invasion,' a new sci-fi series coming to Apple TV+
- Can we stop time?
- Watch astronauts install new space station solar arrays in a spacewalk today
- Get 'Down to Earth' with former NASA astronaut Terry Virts in new podcast
- Rocket Lab wins contract to design twin Mars spacecraft for NASA
June 15
- Lucky Charms adds NASA's return to the moon for 'Galactic' cereal
- Wow! This video of an Atlas V rocket launch seen from an airplane is just amazing
- Brazil makes history in signing the Artemis Accords for moon exploration
- Cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov, who led three Soyuz missions, dies at 93
- NASA wants proposals for 2 private astronaut missions to space station
- NASA asteroid-hunting satellite clears hurdle on path to 2026 launch
- The world needs space junk standards, G7 nations agree
- Peggy Whitson is back! The record-breaking astronaut reveals why she chose to command a private space mission after leaving NASA.
- Minotaur 1 rocket launches 3 classified spy satellites for National Reconnaissance Office
- Strange 'blinking' star near heart of Milky Way catches scientists' eyes
- 'The Outer Worlds 2' is happening and here's the 1st trailer
- Looking at the stars, or falling by the wayside? How astronomy is failing female scientists
- Watch a Minotaur 1 rocket launch a classified US spy satellite today
- Mushrooms on Mars? 5 unproven claims that alien life exists
- How much energy can be created at one time?
June 14
- Exclusive: Watch a featurette clip from 'Voyagers' Blu-ray release
- Halo Infinite E3 trailer promises epic multiplayer battles when it launches later this year
- China launches commercial asteroid hunter and 3 other satellites into space
- The world's first wooden satellite will launch this year
- Inara Serra faces certain death in new 'Firefly' novel 'Life Signs'
- Astronomers discover largest known spinning structures in the universe
- Hunks of oceanic crust are wedged inside Earth's mantle
- Expect an Orwellian future if AI isn't kept in check, Microsoft exec says
- NASA has just rejected missions to moons of Jupiter and Neptune. Here's what we would have found out.
- Ubisoft unveils 1st trailer for 'Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora'
June 13
- Starfield, a sprawling new sci-fi game, will launch in November 2022. Watch the 1st trailer.
- Pegasus XL rocket launches secretive 'space domain awareness' satellite for US Space Force
- World-renowned soccer star Kylian Mbappé talks cosmic kicks with space station astronaut
- Physicists harness atomic 'dark states' to store light
- Earth's core is growing 'lopsided' and scientists don't know why
June 12
- First seat to space on Blue Origin's New Shepard sells for $28 million
- This week on the Space.com forums: Parallel universes, the moon, UFOs and a solar quiz!
- Watch Blue Origin auction a seat on its 1st crewed spaceflight today
- Did a dark energy discovery just prove Einstein wrong? Not quite.
- Satellites will crash into Verdansk in Call of Duty Warzone Season 4
- China's Mars rover Zhurong just snapped an epic self-portrait on the Red Planet (photos)
June 11
- 'Space pups' born from freeze-dried mouse sperm stored on space station
- Venus and the moon will shine bright in the night sky tonight
- China's Mars rover Zhurong spotted from space by NASA orbiter (photos)
- Collins Aerospace to support NASA life support systems at new Houston Spaceport campus
- Space shuttle simulator returns to NASA to be restored for display
June 10
- Solar eclipse from space! See satellite view of moon casting its shadow on Earth (video)
- China rolls rocket to pad ahead of crew launch to Tianhe space station
- Challenge your kid to walk to Mars with X5 Play
- Scientists 3D-print human liver tissue in a lab, win top prizes in NASA challenge
- Venus wins stunning 3rd new mission, this time from Europe
- 'Ring of fire' solar eclipse of 2021 thrills stargazers with sunrise spectacle
- Earth's aurora origin mystery solved by 'surfing' electrons
- NASA's Perseverance rover begins 1st science campaign on Mars
- These NASA photos of the sunrise solar eclipse of 2021 are just jaw-dropping
- 'Ring of fire' solar eclipse 2021: See amazing photos from stargazers
- 'Ring of fire' eclipse 2021: When, where and how to see the annular solar eclipse on June 10
- How to watch the 'ring of fire' solar eclipse online today
- The 'ring of fire' solar eclipse of 2021: What time does it begin?
June 9
- Four ways to enjoy a solar eclipse
- Senate passes huge tech funding bill, includes $10 billion for NASA moon landers
- Here's the US weather forecast for the 'ring of fire' solar eclipse of 2021
- NASA to name winners of human tissue growth challenge today. Here's how to watch online.
- World's largest swimming pool to house new astronaut training center
- See the 'Super Flower Blood Moon' from orbit as only astronauts could (photos)
- 'No evidence' UFOs are alien spacecraft, but they're not American, Pentagon says
- Russia wants you to buy a seat on a Soyuz mission to the space station
- 'Missing link' explosion on the sun could unravel longstanding solar mysteries
- How to make a solar eclipse viewer: Step-by-step photo guide
- Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 7th flight on the Red Planet
- Jupiter's Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, looks amazing in these 1st photos from NASA's epic Juno flyby
June 8
- Here's what you should know about Fortnite's new UFO-themed season
- How to make a universe
- The 'ring of fire' solar eclipse of 2021 will look like the 'Death Star' in front of the sun, astronomer says
- Russia threatens to leave International Space Station program over US sanctions: reports
- Relativity Space unveils fully reusable, 3D-printed Terran R rocket
- Boulders on asteroid Ryugu are surprisingly fluffy, Japan's Hayabusa2 probe finds
- A 'ring of fire' solar eclipse will bring a subdued sunrise to the northeast US and Canada on Thursday
- United Launch Alliance delays Atlas V rocket launch for US Space Force
June 7
- Astra to acquire propulsion company Apollo Fusion for launches beyond low Earth orbit
- Hello, Ganymede! NASA's Juno makes closest visit to Jupiter's largest moon since 2000.
- Behind Blue Origin bids: RR Auction vets viers for New Shepard seat
- Jeff Bezos will join passengers launching into space on Blue Origin's 1st crewed flight
- Why Venus is back in the exploration limelight
- Air pollution from reentering megaconstellation satellites could cause ozone hole 2.0
- US Air Force wants a commercial Rocket Cargo Vanguard to fly stuff anywhere on Earth
June 6
- Hurricane season kicks off. Expect higher-than-normal storm activity.
- NASA's Juno to make the closest visit to Jupiter's biggest moon Ganymede in 20 years
- Picard shatters the Mirror Universe with IDW's year-long 'Star Trek' event series
- SpaceX rocket launches Sirius XM digital radio satellite, nails nighttime landing at sea
- SpaceX will launch a new Sirius XM satellite early Sunday. Here's how to watch online.
June 5
- NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity set for 7th Red Planet flight on Sunday
- Recruit your own 'crew' for the private Inspiration4 space mission with this new fundraising campaign
- SpaceX Dragon docks at space station to deliver new solar arrays and tons of supplies
- Report: NASA investigating UFO sightings, agency chief says
- Virgin Galactic to launch science communicator and researcher to space
June 4
- UFOs just invaded Fortnite as the end nears for Chapter 2 Season 6
- This week on the Space.com forums: Ancient climate, plastic rocket fuel and alien life!
- 1st matter in the universe may have been a perfect liquid
- See the citizen astronauts of Inspiration4 learn how to fly a SpaceX Dragon (photos)
- New Zealand signs Artemis Accords to urge sustainability in space mining
- Pentagon's long-awaited UFO report to Congress due this month
- FAA clears Rocket Lab to start flying again after failed launch
- 1st commercial astronomy spacecraft Twinkle set for launch in 2024
June 3
- China launches Fengyun-4B weather satellite to orbit
- Can we see dark energy from Earth? New experiments offer hope.
- Weird nearby gamma-ray burst defies expectations
- SpaceX launches new solar arrays to space station, nails rocket landing at sea
- A SpaceX Dragon will launch fresh NASA supplies to space station today. How to watch live.
- Change to SpaceX's Starlink internet constellation faces legal challenge
- Former NASA astronaut pleads guilty in deadly car crash: Report
- Stephen King teleportation story 'The Jaunt' to be adapted into TV series
June 2
- Sneak peek: Join the mayhem of Marvel's 'Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters #1'
- NASA will launch 2 new missions to Venus by 2030 to return to Earth's hellish twin
- SpaceX Dragon 'go' to launch NASA cargo to space station Thursday
- SpaceX to fly 3 more private astronaut missions to space station for Axiom Space
- Google Doodle honors Frank Kameny, astronomer-turned-activist, for Pride Month
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launch may slip to November
- Earth's ancient climate warns that we need to take urgent action, study suggests
- Cosmonauts decommission old space station docking module in 7-hour spacewalk
- Swatch takes hues from NASA spacesuits for space watch collection
- NASA's Perseverance rover is the 1st spacecraft in years to carry fresh US plutonium. It won't be the last.
- Satellites may have been underestimating the planet's warming for decades
June 1
- Spacewalking cosmonauts will decommission an old space station module early Wednesday. Watch it live!
- Perseverance rover marks 100th Mars day on the Red Planet
- SpaceX will launch baby squid and tardigrades to the space station this week
- 'Star Wars' artist Brian Rood unveils variant covers for Marvel's 'War of the Bounty Hunters' (exclusive)
- Space history author Jeffrey Kluger launches virtual tour for sci-fi thriller 'Holdout'
- Fluffy ball of darkinos could be lurking at the center of the Milky Way
- China is gaining ground in space. Should the US be concerned?