Space News & Blog Articles

On Saturday (Jan. 28), the moon will cover Uranus in the night sky during a lunar occultation for some regions of Earth. In other places, the two bodies will share a close approach to one another.

Boom! Studios is set to release "The Expanse: Dragon Tooth" comic series in April.

Astrobotic's Peregrine moon lander wrapped up testing to prepare for spaceflight and is now waiting to be shipped to its Florida launch site.

Satellite monitoring and collision detection firm LeoLabs spotted a near-miss between a defunct Soviet rocket body and dead spy satellite that passed within about 20 feet (6 meters) of one another.

Motive Studio and Electronic Arts releases the new remastered edition of "Dead Space" today

Watch asteroid 2023 BU make a close flyby of Earth in images shared by the Virtual Telescope Project taken when the rock was just 13,670 miles (22,000 kilometers) from the surface.

This futuristic engine could save lots of propellant on interplanetary journeys, perhaps allowing NASA to explore the solar system more efficiently.

Europe's mission to explore three icy moons of Jupiter is all set to begin its voyage to the outer solar system.

China last year performed 64 orbital rocket launches and finished building its own space station, but the country is planning an even busier year for 2023.

Astronomers may finally know what delivers the gas that feeds the powerful phenomena surrounding active black holes.

An excellent choice for entry-level astronomers the Celestron SkyMaster 12x60 binos are great for long-range terrestrial observing.

After 31 years in orbit, NASA's magnetosphere-studying mission Geotail has come to end after the spacecraft's final data recorder failed.

The NexStar 4SE is a good scope for beginner astronomers — quick to set up and easy to use, automatically finding night sky objects for that instant wow factor.

C/2022 E3 (ZTF), a comet that has recently made headlines as it flies closer to Earth, briefly developed an ethereal third tail thanks to a weird optical illusion.

NASA's Psyche asteroid mission is targeting an October 2023 launch, after a one-year delay due to software issues.

The moon will eclipse Mars on Monday (Jan. 30), and you can watch the event from the comfort of your own home thanks to a livestream from the Griffith Observatory.

The gaming sandbox includes rockets, airplanes, cars and anything else that you want to subject to realistic physics.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers observe a stellar occultation and discover the first clear evidence for water ice in the Chariklo system.

NASA has funded a new set of visionary concepts for space exploration that could one day prove useful — and perhaps even transformative.

NASA's Jupiter Trojan asteroid-scouting mission has been given an additional space rock to visit, bringing the journey's total to 10 asteroids.