Space News & Blog Articles

The new moon meets Venus and Jupiter in the sky on Wednesday (Feb. 22) early in the morning and you can watch it live via the Virtual Telescope Project.

Russia has moved the launch of a replacement Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station to Feb. 23 , after previously delaying the liftoff to March.

Watch Mercury cross in front of the sun's disk in this video captured by the European Solar Orbiter spacecraft.

An asteroid larger than the Empire State Building that was once considered an impact risk of Earth raced past the planet in February and astronomers managed to take a proper look at it.

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged three galaxies on a collision course. The galaxies are located in the constellation Boötes and will eventually collide and merge to birth a single massive galaxy.

Kerbal Space Program 2 launches in Early Access on Feb. 24 and is easier to use, with interstellar space exploration and more to come. Here's our first hands-on look.

China's Zhurong Mars rover remains silent despite being expected to wake up in December — but there's still hope that the vehicle could rise from its extended slumber.

Former astronaut Chris Cassidy, who spent 378 days in space, is lending his hand to My Hand My Cause, a newly launched photographic, philanthropic fundraiser.

The asteroid that NASA's Lucy craft will visit in Nov 2023 has finally been given a name, Dinkinesh, meaning "you are marvelous" in Amharic.

You won't arrive at your destination for several hours after beginning Deliver Us Mars, but the world-building makes it worth the wait.

The Very Large Telescope in Chile took images of its lightest exoplanet yet after data from two European sky-mapping missions indicated something was tugging at the orbit of a distant young star.

The moon will be completely dark tonight as it enters the new moon phase of its 29.5-day cycle.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a dazzling new view of two tempestuous young stars in the nearby Orion Nebula.

Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope were able to see a supermassive blackhole powering a super bright quasar at the heart of a distant galaxy.

An interview with showrunner, writer, and director Dean Devlin on his new sci-fi series, "The Ark"

China plans to launch a pair of crewed missions to its new space station this year, with supplies also heading to orbit on a Tianzhou cargo ship.

NASA's NuSTAR telescope has spotted patches of high-energy X-rays radiation across the sun's surface that could explain why the star's atmosphere is mysteriously hot.

Thousands of satellites and millions of out-of-control space debris fragments hurtle high above our heads, threatening to collide. Here are the objects that experts fear the most.

The first long-duration astronaut from the United Arab Emirates will be among four crew members flying to the International Space Station on Feb. 26.

Kilonova explosions created when neutron stars collide and merge are perfectly spherical, not flattened discs as previously expected, a new study suggests.

The "China Compound Eye" radar array aims to track and characterize potentially threatening deep-space objects.