Space News & Blog Articles

Fresh footage flowed in from the U.S. Space Force launch of a military satellite earlier this month, which is part of a constellation aiming to track missiles from orbit.

A rare sight for astronomers, X-shaped radio galaxies defined by massive jets of material extending from them may form when black holes feed new simulations suggest.

We see if the Create A Night Sky Projection Kit is worth the cash as a build-your-own star projector.

An experimental high-altitude drone being tested in conjunction with the United States Army has ended its epic flight just hours before breaking the world record for longest flight duration.

Cosmic impacts can make planets and moons more porous than previously thought, potentially boosting their ability to host life, a new study finds.

Two former NASA administrators, Jim Bridenstine and Charles Bolden, said that Russia could be a difficult space partner.

Spanning more than a million light years from end to end, the jet shoots away from a black hole with enormous energy, and at almost the speed of light.

The weather has taken a turn for the worse at the Haughton-Mars Project on Devon Island in the Arctic.

Could a solar storm ever destroy Earth? According to scientists, there's no evidence that any solar weather has ever harmed a human.

SpaceX is scheduled to launch 46 more of its Starlink internet satellites on Wednesday (Aug. 31) at 1:40 a.m. EDT. Watch it live here.

Friday (Sept. 2) is still in play for the Artemis 1 launch, NASA officials say, though it's too early to make any definitive statements.

Satellites owned by private companies have played an unexpectedly important role in the war in Ukraine.

NASA delivers a free online Artemis 1 comic book titled, "The Adventures of Commander Moonikin Campos and Friends."

Space weather watchers observed a series of powerful flares between Aug. 27 and Aug. 29, the most powerful of which registered as a moderate M8-class flare.

Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted the decades of work it took Artemis 1 to get this far, while NASA's Bill Nelson said the agency will address the issue that led to the scrub Monday (Aug. 29).

See the young moon over Mercury in the evening sky just after sunset tonight (Aug. 29).

An engine cooling issue on NASA's giant new rocket for deep-space exploration forced the agency to call off the booster's much-anticipated launch debut early Monday (Aug. 29).

Another test of general relativity shows that Einstein's theory holds up, and a phenomenon it predicted could be used to investigate the mysterious force known as dark energy, which drives the accelerating expansion of the universe.

NASA's SLS rocket spent over a decade in development, and each of its launches of the Orion crew capsule is expected to cost about $4.1 billion.

NASA has begun tanking up its giant new SLS rocket for its debut launch to the moon, a highly anticipated mission called Artemis 1.

Artemis 1 launch viewers with virtual reality headsets or in select locations can take part in an immersive reality experience scheduled for Monday (Aug. 29).