Space News & Blog Articles

With NASA getting ready to return to the moon, a blanket company is ready to "cover" all your launch and lunar viewing needs. Rumpl now has a collection of NASA Artemis products.

In space, no one can hear you scream at your friends. Here are the top space board game deals out there right now.

With Black Friday 2022 on the horizon, our best space gifts and deals guide will help you save on telescopes, model rockets, Lego, and more.

NASA still aims to launch its Artemis 1 moon rocket on Wednesday (Nov. 16), but a few boxes must be checked first.

NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft slipped into orbit around the moon on Sunday evening (Nov. 13), becoming the first cubesat ever to visit Earth's nearest neighbor.

Tiny grains of minerals smaller than the width of human hair hold clues to the construction of our planet Earth and its path through the Milky Way.

As multiple nations plot out their moon exploration strategies, how best to survive the lunar night gives space engineers the cold sweats.

An uncharted region of space known as the "zone of avoidance" lurks behind the Milky Way's center – and astronomers just found an enormous, multi-galaxy structure there.

Earth's ocean floor is famously less explored than the surface of Mars. And when our team of scientists recently mapped the seabed, and ancient sediments beneath, we discovered what looks like an asteroid impact crater.

The Kármán line is the official boundary between the Earth’s atmosphere and outer space. But defining such a boundary can be tricky.

Astrophysicists tested a potential approach to determining the state of the matter inside a neutron star, a tricky feat.

The space plane touched down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center today (Nov. 12) after 908 days in orbit — more than four months longer than any previous X-37B flight.

Now you can dress like an astronaut, or at least your feet can, with limited edition socks of the Osom Brand style used by Doug Hurley on the International Space Station.

The new hybrid series "Fear of a Red Planet" from AfterShock Comics is a sci-fi Western exploring the shocking tale of the first actual murder on the planet Mars.

Researchers have proposed what's perhaps the most exotic explanation to date for the source of the universe's seed magnetic field: cosmic strings.

The Taurid meteor shower created as Earth passes through debris left behind by the comet Encke peaks on Saturday Nov. 12 with an increased opportunity to see a bright fireball erupt in the sky.

China has launched a new cargo spacecraft to its newly completed Tiangong space station in preparation for a new crewed mission.

Former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly has won re-election to the United States Senate, multiple media outlets are projecting.

NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket survived Hurricane Nicole's wrath in good shape and remains on track to launch on Nov. 16, agency officials said.

SpaceX will launch two telecom satellites for Intelsat on Saturday (Nov. 12) at 11:06 a.m. EDT (1606 GMT), using a Falcon 9 rocket flying on its record-tying 14th mission.

One of the most spectacular celestial sights ever seen appeared 450 years ago this month. Here's the incredible story of Tycho's star, one of only five supernovas ever observed.