Space News & Blog Articles

Boom! Studios drops a fresh "Firefly: Keep Flying" one-shot comic for the franchise's 20th anniversary

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity has been remarkably successful in describing the gravity of stars and planets, but it doesn’t seem to apply perfectly on all scales.

The uncrewed X-37B space plane touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Station on Nov. 12 having spent a record 908 days in orbit

A rare solar eclipse called a hybrid solar eclipse will occur on April 20, 2023. We explore what creates these strange eclipses and how you can see one for yourself.

Several prominent astronomers, scientists and at least one astronaut have announced their exit from Twitter following Elon Musk's takeover. Will more follow?

NASA's Artemis 1 mission will arrive in the moon's neighborhood on Monday morning (Nov. 21), and you can follow the epic action live.

NASA's Orion spacecraft has spotted the destination of its Artemis 1 test flight the moon and captured a stunning video to mark the moment.

Abrams Books has released an epic new hardback volume, "The Art of Star Wars: The High Republic" by Kristin Baver that dives into the Jedi's Golden Age.

Tokyo-based ispace aims to pull off the first-ever soft landing on the moon by a private company — and its Hakuto-R lander will deploy a UAE rover, if all goes to plan.

SpaceX's next cargo launch to the International Space Station (ISS) has been pushed back a day, to Tuesday (Nov. 22).

The House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics recently enjoyed the exceptional success of NASA's largest space telescope — a bright spot in American politics.

A U.K. spaceport that will host the first-ever Virgin Orbit launch from non-American soil has received a license from the U.K. national regulator.

LightSail 2's 3.5-year mission came to an end on Nov. 17 when the sunshine-riding craft burned up upon reentry to Earth's atmosphere.

NASA's Artemis 1 Orion capsule is exceeding expectations in deep space and remains on target to fly by the moon on Monday (Nov. 21), agency officials said.

The most powerful space telescope currently operational will retain its controversial name.

A British astronomer who went missing while visiting the European Southern Observatory's La Silla site in Chile was found dead after nearly two months of searching.

The Xbox Series S is on sale for $249.99 through Black Friday and the holidays, so you can pick one up before Starfield launches.

From sea to the stratosphere, Space Perspective aims to give high-altitude balloon tourists a flexible launching point to see the blackness of space and the curve of Earth.

A meteorite that lit up the sky above an English village last year is almost as pristine as samples collected by space probes and contains the "right" kind of hydrogen to explain water on Earth.

China's Shenzhou 14 astronauts just conducted a spacewalk to carry out work on the newly arrived Mengtian space station module.

SpaceX's loss of 40 Starlink satellites in February was preceded by the company using an inaccurate space weather forecasting model to decide to launch following a geomagnetic storm warning.