Space News & Blog Articles

The winter solstice is today (Dec. 21), marking the official start of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest day of the year.

One year after its launch, the flagship space telescope is already making discoveries that are transforming our knowledge of the universe, both near and far.

Europe's Vega C rocket failed during its second-ever mission on Tuesday night (Dec. 20), which was supposed to loft two satellites for Airbus' Pléiades Neo Earth-imaging constellation.

Astronomers have discovered two Earth-like exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf near our solar system that orbit their star with respective 'years' lasting just 10 and 21 days.

Two NASA astronauts will conduct a spacewalk early Wednesday (Dec. 21) to install new solar arrays on the International Space Station, and you can watch it live.

AstroAccess flew 14 individuals from 5 countries on a parabolic research flight Dec. 15, to open up space research to more people.

SpaceX will soon start launching a new generation of Starlink broadband satellites, which could help the company deal with surging demand, according to a report.

Scientists may have explained the mysterious distribution of small satellite galaxies around our Milky Way that has long puzzled astronomers, but not everyone is in agreement.

NASA lost contact with its Mars InSight lander on Monday (Dec. 18) after the spacecraft failed to respond to communications from its control team.

A mysterious shock wave in a gust of solar wind has sent a barrage of high-speed material smashing into Earth's magnetic field, opening up a crack in the magnetosphere.

NASA restoration wizard Andy Saunders on Apollo 17's restored photos in his new book, "Apollo Remastered"

Europe's Vega C rocket is scheduled to launch on its second-ever mission on Tuesday night (Dec. 20), and you can watch the action live.

China has revealed that four international experiments will fly on its historic Chang'e 6 sample-return mission to the far side of the moon in 2025.

The moon will be at new moon phase on Dec. 23 when the Ursid meteor shower reaches its peak, meaning it won't provide any hindrance at all for meteor watching.

New research shows that even smaller impacts can warm and soften enough ice on Jupiter's moon Europa to send material sinking into the underlying ocean.

NASA's IXPE space telescope observed a neutron star with a powerful magnetic field in X-rays for the first time, finding polarization and a likely solid crust.

This photo from NASA's InSight lander on Mars just may be its last as the power-starved lander approaches the end of its life on the Red Planet.

We have absolutely no evidence for any extraterrestrial civilization, let alone life. This is Fermi's great paradox: If life can happen, it should be common, and if it's common, we should already know about it. But we don't.

An inspection of the leaky Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked to the International Space Station has revealed a small hole, though it's unclear if it was caused by a micrometeoroid strike.

A commitment to diversity honoring "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry will soon blast off to the final frontier.

Lockheed Martin has been blowing up its in-development inflatable space habitat in more ways than one.