Space News & Blog Articles

The mysterious Antikythera mechanism, thought by some to be the world's first computer, was first "started up" on Dec. 22, 178 B.C., archaeologists have now found.

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Kino Loy becomes a bodhisattva-of-sorts to the inmates of Narkina 5 in 'One Way Out'

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.

Whether neutron stars have soft or hard cores and shells, like different types of cosmic chocolates, may depend on if they are heavy or light, new research indicates.

The Unistellar eQuinox is $1000 off and the eVscope 2 is discounted by $900 in this supermassive Black Friday deal.

Snoopy, "the world famous astronaut" who is currently on a flight around the moon, has been assigned his next mission: entertaining and educating visitors at NASA's Florida spaceport.

NASA's Artemis 1 moon launch and LOFTID heat shield test successfully demonstrated hardware that could be key to landing astronauts on Mars.

The collapse of the world's most powerful radio and radar telescope didn't kill off science at the Arecibo Observatory, but the National Science Foundation might.

ABL Space Systems' RS1 rocket aborted its first-ever launch attempt today (Nov. 17) during engine ignition. The vehicle is healthy, company representatives said.

Watch the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft during its moon journey, or download the tracking information for use in data visualizations or other applications.

Two components of the Russian side of the International Space Station are a step closer to being robotically relocated after two cosmonauts completed a spacewalk to prepare the pieces for their move.

A United Nations report warns of imperiled glaciers at iconic World Heritage sites — but climate action could save most of them.

NASA's newest space telescope has left scientists seeing distant stars — and galaxies.

Artemis 1 has finally taken flight, and NASA officials took a bit of time to savor the success.

A new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a molecular cloud of gas and dust that harbors a compact object that will soon become an infant star.

China launched its 53rd rocket of 2022 on Wednesday (Nov. 16), bringing it three launches shy of tying the record 56 liftoffs the country set last year.

You can see what's coming next in space gaming and beyond in the PC Gaming Show: 2023 Preview today (Nov. 17).

European aerospace giant Airbus demonstrated how solar power could be beamed from space in a new experiment.

Despite having radically different atmospheres, Mars and Earth seem to have similar cloud patterns, hinting that the features may form in much the same way.

Today's historic launch of NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission was saved by a courageous crew of technicians who stepped in to perform a critical repair beneath the fueled Space Launch System rocket.