Space News & Blog Articles

The amount of bandwidth provided by SpaceX's Starlink satellites is limiting Ukraine's ability to operate ground robots on the frontline of the nation's war against Russia.

From viral shots of Tiangong to a new deal with Astroscale, HEO Robotics is pioneering satellite-to-satellite imagery in orbit and even plans to expand beyond Earth.

Our team detected glowing nickel vapor in the gas surrounding the incoming interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at an extraordinary distance from the sun, where temperatures remain far too cold for metals to normally vaporize.

Elon Musk's rocket company is clearing out its "gravel, tractors and space junk" from a once-pristine plot of South Texas land.

A meteor photobombed the patch of sky containing Comet Lemmon on Oct. 24, wrapping it in a glowing trail.

While interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will not come near our planet, future ones may. A new campaign seeks to improve orbit predictions.

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to New York as geomagnetic storm conditions are predicted for tonight.

Follow the space program since the moon landing in the four-part documentary "Once Upon a Time in Space". Here’s how to watch it anywhere on the planet.

Using NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter, astronomers have discovered a strange arrangement of exoplanets around tight binary stars that shouldn't be.

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink satellites today (Oct. 27), sending 28 of them up from California's central coast.

Cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky will conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (Oct. 28), and you can watch the action live.

Turn your telescope on the moon at sunset on Oct. 28 to see a colossal "X" and "V" form on the lunar surface as sunlight picks out broken terrain along the terminator.

The 4MOST instrument on the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope has captured its first light.

With the Argonaut lunar lander and the LUNA simulation facility in Germany, the European Space Agency is building the technology and training to have life on the moon.

Perched high in Chile's Andes, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory sees a breathtaking view of the Milky Way's southern arc.

SpaceX has long held the contract to land NASA's Artemis 3 astronauts on the moon a few years from now. But the agency plans to reopen the bidding, according to acting NASA chief Sean Duffy.

A piece of smoldering wreckage found in Western Australia is likely part of a Chinese rocket that crashed to Earth on Saturday (Oct. 18), experts say.

Reflect Orbital has applied for a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license to launch a giant mirror to space next year.

The Artemis 2 SLS rocket that will launch the next astronauts around the moon is all put together inside NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building.

Test your knowledge of NASA's triumphs, setbacks, and space-age breakthroughs that define this space agency's legendary history.

An academic dives into "the other space race" as countries work to send satellites and other objects into orbit around the Earth.