Space News & Blog Articles

Valles Marineris, the Grand Canyon of Mars, is ripe for human exploration that can uncover the planet's history and its capacity to sustain microbial life.

SpaceX's next Dragon passengers will need to wait a little longer to get off the ground.

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have new details to share on how they will bring pieces of Mars to Earth, and they'll share their plans next week.

Writer/director David A. Weiner presents another plunge into the past in his new sci-fi movie salute to the '80s, "In Search of Tomorrow."

SpaceX aborted the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of the company's Starlink internet satellites just before liftoff on Thursday (July 21).

Find out what's going on at the International Space Station.

Astronomers have spotted two candidates for the most distant galaxies ever, thanks to the power of a massive gravitational lens.

The Department of Defense has created a new office to track unidentified objects in space and air, under water, or that appear to travel between these domains.

NASA's telescope-carrying jet has been damaged in a storm in Christchurch, New Zealand.

SpaceX will launch another batch of Starlink satellites aloft from California on July 21, and you can watch it live.

The inner solar system spins much more slowly than modern physics would expect, and a new study may help to explain why.

Early Friday morning the moon will be conveniently placed to guide you to Uranus. The pair will be close enough to share the same field of view in a pair of binoculars.

The Comedy Central host talks about how the new images from NASA's deep-space telescope blew his mind.

Watch Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti and Russia's Oleg Artemyev deploy nanosatellites and do maintenance work during their spacewalk Thursday (July 21).

Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system and has 79 moons. Learn more about the gas giant in our ultimate guide.

Mattel has entered into a multi-year agreement with SpaceX to create and market toys based on SpaceX rockets and spacecraft.

NASA is considering sending "hyper-specialized" scientists to the International Space Station to work alongside career astronauts.

A new statue of an Apollo astronaut now stands near NASA in Houston, just in time for the anniversary of the first moon landing. To find it, just follow the Golden Arches.

NASA officials say the Artemis 1 moon rocket may be ready to launch as soon as late August, but that timeline depends on tweaks at the Vehicle Assembly Building and on the pad.

NASA chose SpaceX's heavy-lift rocket to send a wide-field telescope into space that will search for dark matter.

China launched the SuperView Neo 2 (01) and (02) commercial sensing satellites into near-polar orbit with its 24th orbital launch of 2022.