Space News & Blog Articles

After almost 60 years of dressing up like an astronaut, Barbie has launched into space for real. Two of the iconic fashion dolls are now on the International Space Station for "Mission DreamStar."

After a dead sunspot hurled a ball of plasma toward Earth earlier this week, medium-sized auroras may stretch even farther south than usual.

The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity aced its 25th flight on the Red Planet last Friday (April 8), setting new personal bests for speed and distance.

Even though Earendel is 50 times the mass of the sun, and millions of times brighter, we would not normally be able to see it. We can see it due to an alignment of the star with a large galaxy cluster in front of it whose gravity bends the light from the star to make it brighter and more focused – essentially creating a lens.

This stunning sunrise on Mars comes courtesy of NASA's InSight Mars lander, which took the photo on April 10, 2022.

Russia's space program will power through the "difficulties" that have followed the nation's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The full moon of April, called the Pink Moon, occurs Monday, April 26 at 11:32 p.m. EDT (0332 GMT on Tuesday, April 27). It will also be a "supermoon."

You can save up to $300 on some pretty awesome telescopes when you get them from B&H.

Scientists are studying a "cosmic dawn" object born just 750 million years after the Big Bang.

A minuscule amount of microscopic moon dust sold for half a million dollars after NASA determined that the particles came from the first lunar sample collected by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong.

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station have had their launch pushed back again, to April 23.

The European Space Agency will discontinue its cooperation on Russia's Luna 25, Luna 26 and Luna 27 moon missions, ESA officials announced Wednesday (April 13)

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover unexpectedly changed its course up Mount Sharp to avoid hazardous "gator-back" terrain.

Earth Day occurs annually on April, 22. It began in 1970 and celebrates the environmental diversity of Earth and highlights ways of protecting it.

Gravity can be described in a variety of ways. Here's how Newton and Einstein took gravity from an observation to a measurable phenomenon.

Scientists are uncovering how mysterious medium-sized black holes may arise from collisions of massive stars.

1,500 pages of UFO related research has been declassified by the US government following a FOIA request by The Sun

Fantastically affordable and with few optical downsides, the Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 DG OS HSM lens offers a fabulous off-brand alternative.

The Elegoo Saturn is a mid-to-large sized resin 3D printer that’s ideal for bigger figurines and prototyping.

The ZWO ASI533MC Pro camera offers high-end features in an affordable package. We check out how it performs under the night sky.

Russia's intensifying focus on eastern and southern Ukraine is visible in satellite imagery.