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- SpaceX will launch its second classified mission for the U.S. Space Force in less than a week tonight (Sept. 15), and you can watch the action live.
- Former NASA astronaut and Artemis II pilot Victor Glover is stepping away from his space agency duties to take on a new role — executive advisor to the president of Cal Poly University.
- Temperatures and precipitation are hitting new extremes.
- "Every one of these objects we study helps us understand a little more about how planets form around other stars."
- A Vega C rocket launched Europe's FLEX and Copernicus-3C spacecraft toward orbit from French Guiana tonight (Sept. 14).
- The recently created UAP Science Advisory Council recently gathered at a private meeting at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
- Both the OG 'Star Wars' and 'Star Wars: Starfighter' score the ultimate cinematic treatment in 2027.
- The discovery of water in dark craters at the moon's poles has sparked a "moon rush" to establish bases there, and then villages, cities and heavy industry. How sustainable is this rush?
- On Sept. 14, 1966, NASA's Gemini 11 mission set an spaceflight altitude record that lasted for nearly six decades. Here's why the mission mattered.
- Cygnus the swan lifts up the International Space Station | Space photo of the day for Sept. 14, 2026Just a little help from its friends.