The moon shines over the Marrara Oval ground during the T20 international cricket match between Australia and South Africa in Darwin on Aug. 10. William West/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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This undated artist's conception released by NASA in 1999 shows an intermediate-sized black hole, which exists in the heart of spiral galaxies throughout the universe. NASA/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Research team identifies oldest known supermassive black hole
From left, NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 members Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi pose for a group portrait inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module on July 19, 2025. NASA hide caption
Meteors from the Perseids Meteor Shower streak across a partly cloudy sky above Inyo National Forest in Bishop, California, in 2024. Preston Dyches/NASA hide caption
In 2010, Jim Lovell explored his Apollo 8 spacecraft at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. M. Spencer Green/AP hide caption
Famed NASA astronaut and Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell has died at age 97
A full supermoon rises behind a mountain in the village of Dodekametro, in the region of Arcadia in Greece, on July 10. Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
This artist's concept shows what the gas giant planet that orbits the star Alpha Centauri A could look like. R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC)/NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI hide caption
Crew-11 mission astronauts wave as they head to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Friday. From Left to right, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, NASA astronaut and mission commander Zena Cardman and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui. The crew will live and work aboard the International Space Station for at least six months. Gregg Newton/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Workers on scaffolding repaint the NASA logo near the top of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., May 2020. John Raoux/AP hide caption
Tiny variations in the weather, tides and even the liquid inside the Earth's core can affect the length of the day. NASA hide caption
This image provided by NASA shows Axiom Space crew members from the Ax-4 mission from second left, Poland's Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski, Axiom Space's Peggy Whitson, India's Shubhanshu Shukla and Hungary's Tibor Kapu aboard the International Space Station, on June 26, 2025. AP/via NASA hide caption
A Martian meteorite said to be the largest piece of Mars on Earth, estimated at $2 - 4 million, is displayed at Sotheby's, in New York. Richard Drew/AP hide caption
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was first observed July 1 with a NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Chile. ATLAS/University of Hawaii/NASA hide caption
A rare interstellar comet is headed our way. Here's how you could view it
This diagram shows the trajectory of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passes through the solar system. It will make its closest approach to the Sun in October. NASA/JPL-Caltech hide caption
A NASA visualization showing the Milky Way and Andromeda at four billion years from now, if they make an encounter. Galaxy illustrations courtesy of NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI) T. Hallas, and A. Mellinger. Visualization courtesy of NASA, ESA, and F. Summers (STScI) hide caption
In this photo taken from video shows a bright object traveling in the sky in McDonough, Ga., on June 26, 2025. Bryan Jennings Updyke/AP hide caption
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches a Crew Dragon capsule from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday. The Ax-4 mission is the fourth private spaceflight for the Houston-based commercial company, which is flying four astronauts on a two-week trip to the International Space Station. John Raoux/AP hide caption
This image provided by rocketfuture.org shows a SpaceX rocket explodes at Starbase, SpaceX's launch site at the southern tip of Texas late Wednesday, June 18, 2025. rocketfuture.org/AP hide caption
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of 20 Starlink satellites is seen in the evening sky above Lawndale, Calif., after being launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 18, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
People await the update on ispace's private lunar lander's attempt to touch down on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. Kyodo News/AP hide caption
Struggling to have a second child, astronaut Kellie Gerardi uses her social media presence to let others know they're not alone. Emily Farthington hide caption
The northern lights illuminate the night sky in Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada, during a geomagnetic storm on May 12, 2024. Geoff Robins/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Spectators watch SpaceX's ninth Starship rocket launch from its pad in the newly incorporated city of Starbase, Texas on May 27, 2025. The test flight ended with Starship tumbling out of control and burning up over the Indian Ocean. Michael Gonzalez/The Texas Newsroom hide caption