Particle Shrine, an installation that converts cosmic ray data into music and lighting, at Science Gallery London. Jack Latimer/Science Gallery London hide caption
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The strawberry moon rises behind St Michael's Mount in Marazion near Penzance on June 28, 2018, in Cornwall, England. Matt Cardy/Getty Images hide caption
In this handout image supplied by the European Space Agency on July 16, 2008, the Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on Mars, is pictured from ESA's Mars Express. ESA/Getty Images hide caption
This Aug 25, 2020 image captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the planet Jupiter and one of its moons, Europa, at left, when the planet was 406 million miles from Earth. AP hide caption
NASA is sending an Ada Limón poem to Jupiter's moon Europa — and maybe your name too?
In this handout photo provided by NASA, an Atlas V rocket with Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft launches from Cape Canaveral, Fla. on on May 19, 2022. This was the Starliner's second uncrewed flight test which later docked with the International Space Station. NASA via Getty Images hide caption
In this image taken from video broadcast by SpaceX, crew members wave after the SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down into the Gulf of Mexico, just off the Florida Panhandle, late Tuesday, May 30, 2023. AP hide caption
A Long March rocket carrying a crew of Chinese astronauts in a Shenzhou-16 spaceship lifts off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption
The seven galaxies noted in this James Webb Space Telescope image are at a distance that astronomers refer to as redshift 7.9, which correlates to 650 million years after the big bang. NASA, ESA, CSA, T. Morishita (IPAC). Image processing: A. Pagan (STScI) hide caption
What galaxies forming earlier than scientists thought possible means for physics
The space plane "Unity" travelled 54 miles above Earth, providing a great view and a few minutes of weightlessness. Virgin Galactic hide caption
Astronaut Peggy Whitson, probably thinking about breaking records or being in space. Bill Ingalls/NASA/NASA via Getty Images hide caption
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon capsule and a crew of four private astronauts lifts off from pad 39A, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sunday. John Raoux/AP hide caption
This artist's impression shows a hazy sub-Neptune-sized planet recently observed with the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) hide caption
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a mysterious planet to be weirdly shiny
The SpaceX Starship lifts off from the launchpad during a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023. Four minutes into its flight, it exploded over the Gulf of Mexico. PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
SpaceX wants this supersized rocket to fly. But will investors send it to the Moon?
An artist's impression of an aging star swelling up and beginning to engulf a planet, much like the Sun will do in about 5 billion years. K. Miller/R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) hide caption
Artist's concept of NASA's Voyager spacecraft. After the Voyager 1 and its replica Voyager 2 launched in 1977, their power sources are slowly dying. NASA/JPL-Caltech hide caption
This illustration provided by ispace in April 2023 depicts the Hakuto spacecraft on the surface of the moon with the Earth in the background. ispace via AP hide caption
This artistic rendering shows a runaway supermassive black hole that was ejected from its host galaxy after a tussle between it and two other black holes. As the black hole plows through intergalactic space it compresses tenuous gas in front to it and leaves a "contrail" of stars behind it. ARTWORK: NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI) hide caption
Spectators watch from South Padre Island, Texas, as the SpaceX Starship launches on Thursday. It exploded several minutes later. Veronica G. Cardenas/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
SpaceX said clearing its launch pad was still a massive success for Starship. Patrick T. Fallon/Getty Images hide caption
SpaceX postponed plans to test the world's largest rocket on Monday after noting a frozen pressure valve. SpaceX hide caption
At nearly 400 feet tall, Starship is the largest rocket to ever fly. SpaceX hopes it can become a vehicle for interplanetary travel. SpaceX hide caption
Rocks from a rare fireball have landed in an area across the Maine-Canada border, and a museum will pay people to find them. AP hide caption
Researchers used computer simulations of black holes and machine learning to generate a revised version (right) of the famous first image of a black hole that was released back in 2019 (left). Medeiros et al 2023 hide caption