Space News & Blog Articles

NASA is preparing for the day its astronauts explore the south pole of the moon by heading underwater with the lights out.

NASA and SpaceX will hold announce an update to the agency's next astronaut launch from Florida today (Feb. 4) and you can follow it live online.

Some people around the world believe our planet is flat. Here's the (surprising) truth about debating them.

The distance to Mars from Earth constantly changes as they orbit the sun. The average distance between Earth and Mars is 140 million miles (225 million km).

Here's how to stay up to date on all of NASA's content for Black History month.

Frequent meteor collisions occurred on the Red Planet for 30 million more years than thought, a new study suggests.

The man who gave us mutant neutrinos that melt the Earth's core hopes his movies will raise awareness over real dangers to our planet.

A streak of purple "lightning" sprawls across the cosmos in a gorgeous new image from NASA.

China's Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter is once again delivering stunning imagery, with a new video released to celebrate the lunar New Year.

Mission team members have begun the three-month process of aligning the $10 billion Webb, which launched on Dec. 25, NASA officials announced today (Feb. 3).

The largest known star in the universe is UY Scuti, a hypergiant with a radius around 1,700 times larger than the sun.

Large planets can't form moons that would be the right size to enable life, a new study has found.

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins is preparing to make history as the first Black woman to embark on an extended mission in space.

Check out the most beautiful star clusters in the winter night sky.

SpaceX just added another 49 satellites to its growing Starlink internet megaconstellation.

The Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon is a great alternative to the $800/£700 beast.

Paramount Plus has just unveiled the striking key art poster and launch date for 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" coming on May 5.

The search for traces of life on distant planets will be more difficult for the world's largest radio telescope because of interference from megaconstellation satellites.

Astra is preparing to launch the ELaNa 41 mission from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday (Feb. 5), the California company announced via Twitter Tuesday (Feb. 1).

The observatory will focus on planets we sometimes can't find close to home.

SpaceX is ready to send another batch of its Starlink internet satellites into orbit, and you can watch the action live.