Space News & Blog Articles

Humans have sent four spacecraft out of the solar system, with another swiftly approaching the edge of our solar system — and they have a lot to teach us about our place in space.

Microbes carried by laser-propelled sails could serve as interstellar probes that can build communications stations to phone home from Alpha Centauri.

You can watch SpaceX's final launch of 2022 for free as the company aims for its 61st mission of the year, nearly doubling the mark set in 2021.

China's last space launch of 2022, which lifted off on Thursday (Dec. 29), has prompted a warning of falling rocket debris from the Philippine Space Agency.

IDW Publishing will release "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Dog of War" in April of 2023.

Satellites are assisting with local forecasts of floods in California, after spending much of 2022 assisting the Golden State with drought and wildfire management.

In its first year in operation, the James Webb Space Telescope has already made many groundbreaking discoveries. Here are some of the stunning photos representing its highlights.

Three crew members that may be stuck on the International Space Station could have the chance to return home on a SpaceX Dragon, if the option is required, a report suggests.

NASA is looking deeper into the possibility of using a private spacecraft to lift the Hubble Space Telescope to new heights after a study by SpaceX.

Jupiter has come under close spacecraft scrutiny for more than 50 years. But the gas giant still has a host of secrets.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket produced a vibrant show when it launched in the pre-dawn sky from Florida, at 4:34 a.m. EST (0934 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Dec. 28.

Is the Joby GorillaPod 3K Pro Kit really worth investing in over a cheaper alternative? We put it to the test.

The Soyuz is docked to the International Space Station and it's unclear if it can bear its crew back home, following a severe coolant leak earlier in December.

Pick up a pair of binoculars to examine the half-lit moon and Jupiter as it passes by.

'My team's not worried' about dust or wind disturbing the lightsaber-shaped cache tubes, NASA's Perseverance mission wrote on Twitter.

Gamma rays are high-energy photons produced by some of the most violent events in the universe. We explore this powerful radiation in more detail here.

John F. Clauser reflects on receiving the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics for the groundbreaking work he did 50 years ago.

Satellite imagery from NASA shows snow, ice and clouds blanketing the northeastern U.S. during the peak of the holiday travel season.

The Royal Astronomical Society briefly mandated that all journal articles refer to the observatory as 'JWST', before NASA cleared former chief James Webb of persecuting queer staffers.

NASA's supersonic X-59 plane is now one step closer to its flight demonstration over U.S. communities now that it has its 13-foot engine for quiet sonic booms.

Former Roscosmos director-general Dmitry Rogozin is 'on the mend' after being flown from Ukraine to Russia for the 'complex operation, state media reported Monday (Dec. 26).