Ship 37's Vapor Cones, as it passes through Max-Q and breaks through the sound barrier

The bright spot in this image is a baby planet about 5 times the mass of Jupiter, actively forming inside a gap in a disk of gas and dust orbiting a star about 434 light-years away eso.org/public/images/…

AR 4197 over the past 48 hours: after the initial surge in development the AR has relaxed somewhat. It is currently a fairly complex beta-gamma region. There is increased separation between the leading and trailing parts of the region, but there is new development in the

Liftoff of Super Heavy, the most powerful launch vehicle in history, on Starship’s tenth flight test

Moscow, we’ve got a problem. arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/…

Whoa, the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS clearly has a tail now! A raw image taken minutes ago with the GMOS instrument on Gemini South and shared live during the Shadow the Scientists event - I raised the contrast slightly.

Data from the InSight Mars lander reveals what appear to be giant fragments deep below the surface of Mars, the aftermath of massive impacts that occurred 4.5 billion years ago. Dig in: go.nasa.gov/3HxXHDl

View of Starship landing burn and splashdown on Flight 10, made possible by SpaceX’s recovery team. Starship made it through reentry with intentionally missing tiles, completed maneuvers to intentionally stress its flaps, had visible damage to its aft skirt and flaps, and still

The Starship landing video in the Indian Ocean was taken from a camera bolted to a Starlink terminal sitting in a kiddie pool 😂

From Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 - The Dumbbell Nebula (M27) captured in SkyViewer. An icon of the summer sky in the northern hemisphere can now be viewed and shared through our decentralized telescope network🔭

The five large AST SpaceMobile BlueBird comm sats were launched in 2024; time to take a look at their orbits. After ejecting their antenna covers in October (magenta lines) the main sats (blue) decreased drag, controlled at the same height but at 10000 km spacings

So what's next for Starship? I take some guesses. arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/…

This booster landed unusually close to the camera

YTD orbital launch stats: 🇺🇸 114 🇨🇳 49 🇳🇿 12 🇷🇺 11 🇪🇺 5 🇮🇳 3 🇯🇵 2 🇦🇺 1 🌍 197