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Learn how to shoot photos of meteors
Want to shoot photos of meteors with your camera? The first step is planning. The next step is to gather your equipment. Then on to the capture process.
October 19, 2025
Reflect Orbital says it will deliver sunlight on demand
The startup company Reflect Orbital has proposed putting hundreds of thousands of satellites with mirrors in space to illuminate areas of Earth at night.
October 17, 2025
Dancing dust devils on Mars trace raging winds
Using data from several Mars missions, scientists have put together a catalog of dust devils on Mars that help track winds and troublesome dust.
October 12, 2025
Webb glimpses doomed star before its explosion
For decades, astronomers have wanted to know exactly what the explosion of a doomed star looks like. The Webb Space Telescope has made that knowledge possible.
October 9, 2025
Mars missions image Comet 3I/ATLAS during red planet flyby
Spacecraft around Mars have caught images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it made a close pass past the red planet. See the images here.
October 7, 2025
International Observe the Moon Night October 4
International Observe the Moon Night is October 4, 2025. It's a global event for celebrating the moon. Here's how you can participate online or in person.
October 4, 2025
Moon-forming disk found around massive planet
Data from the Webb space telescope reveal that a massive planet around a distant star is encircled by a moon-forming disk.
October 3, 2025
Space
Rogue planet found growing at astonishing record rate
Astronomers have discovered a rogue planet eating up 6 billion tons of gas and dust every second. That's the fastest rate ever recorded for any planet.
October 2, 2025
After the International Space Station, what comes next?
Operations on the International Space Station will come to an end in 2030. What's next? Plans are for privately owned, commercially operated space stations.
September 26, 2025
Space
Trouble for Hayabusa2? Asteroid target smaller than expected
New observations of the asteroid that Hayabusa2 is scheduled to touch down on in 2031 have revealed it's smaller and spinning much faster than once thought.
September 25, 2025
