Space News & Blog Articles

Two puffs of star-making material exude mystical glows in a recently-published Hubble Space Telescope image.

The last total lunar eclipse until 2025 will turn the moon a blood-red hue on Tuesday, Nov. 8, but exactly when you should look up depends on where you are.

The rapid decline of the British-Irish Ice Sheet thousands of years ago may hold lessons for how melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will influence sea-level rise in the future.

We're unprepared for when E.T. reaches out to us. A team of experts is determined to change that.

If you surfed the web this morning, you may have seen news of the latest existential threat to humanity: a “planet killer” asteroid named 2022 AP7. Luckily for us 2022 AP7 “has no chance to hit the Earth currently”, according to Scott Sheppard at the Carnegie Institution for Science.

This sci-fi game from Ravensburger is a high-speed race based on Disney’s Space Mountain indoor roller coaster

A fire alarm on Earth prevented the launch of Northrop Grumman's NG-18 cargo ship for NASA on Nov. 6.

NASA named 18 space agencies, organizations and individuals who will watch the Orion spacecraft as it flies around the moon, after launching with Artemis 1 no earlier than Nov. 14.

The spiral galaxy Messier 99 got the star treatment from two European Southern Observatory instruments.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard successfully launched a new rocket capable of sending satellites into orbit on Saturday (Nov. 5).

Our roundup of the best star trackers for astrophotography for wide-field and deep sky imaging.

You can see a Blood Moon total lunar eclipse on Nov. 8, the last until 2025. Here's how to watch it online for free.

New research indicates that certain areas of the Martian crust have a higher silica content than expected, upending the long-held theory that the crust is uniformly basaltic.

Only a handful of people have ever set foot on the moon. We take a look at this super exclusive club, who they were, and what enabled them to make that incredible journey.

The basic construction of China’s space station is complete, following a maneuver to shift the recently arrived Mengtian module to its permanent docking port.

The U.S. military's X-37B robotic space plane just passed 900 days in orbit on its latest hush-hush mission, adding to the program's flight-duration record.

Fertility treatments and a bioprinter that can manufacture knee cartilage will fly to the International Space Station Sunday (Nov. 6) aboard a Cygnus cargo spacecraft.

The U.S. government has officially started to explain some of the most infamous UFO encounters of the last decade, with China and weather balloons as top offenders.

A NASA Venus mission will have to wait at least three more years to launch due to issues with the agency's Psyche asteroid probe.

If the title of 'Star Wars: Episode IV' is 'A New Hope' then the title of 'Andor' episode VII should be 'Abandon All Hope.'

The first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi has been pushed back by two additional months, to April 2023.