Space News & Blog Articles

China's reusable Shenlong space plane launched on its fourth space mission earlier this month. What is it doing in Earth orbit, and how do those activities advance China's space goals?

A major snow storm hitting the northeast U.S. has been captured in satellite imagery.

'The whole movie is like this big roller coaster emotional experience.'

The next lunar eclipse will be overnight on March 2-4, 2026.

They were gourmet, but not from any grocery store you can find on Earth.

These are the best drones under $500 that deliver some of the latest drone technology despite their competitive prices.

Satellite spies stunning auroras from orbit during G1 geomagnetic storm.

The moon and Pleiades will glow together on Feb. 23 in a striking skywatching display.

The total lunar eclipse occurs around the March full moon phase, as the sun, Earth and lunar disk align.

It feels so obvious that time moves forward that questioning it can seem almost pointless.

NASA's Perseverance rover can now pinpoint its exact location on Mars without help from Earth, paving the way for longer, more autonomous exploration.

Why do some places wait 1,000 years to see a total solar eclipse while others get two in a decade? The surprising orbital mechanics behind where eclipses happen — and don't.

By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that spacecraft’s velocity could receive a huge boost — enough to allow it to catch up with 3I/ATLAS, which is the fastest comet ever seen.

Two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets, each carrying Starlink satellites, launched from California and Florida on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. The second booster set a new reuse record.

NASA is troubleshooting a glitch with the upper stage of Artemis 2's Space Launch System rocket that will likely delay the launch of the moon mission.

On Episode 198 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Principal Investigator Dr. Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle about the Dragonfly mission and what to expect in the coming years.

I tried out Canon's latest vlogging camera for astrophotography, the PowerShot V1 and managed to capture the Andromeda galaxy and the Milky Way!

Is an orbiting space station necessary to achieve lunar objectives, including scientific ones?

Arnie said, "Get your ass to Mars", but is it really a good idea? We asked the experts about our Martian future.

Astronomers suspect the heart of the Milky Way may be hiding a big secret: a rapidly spinning, highly magnetic, neutron star-powered pulsar.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated 70 dusty galaxies at the very edge of the universe that challenge our understanding of cosmic evolution.