Space News & Blog Articles

NASA's newest flagship observatory is about to begin an incredible journey and now has an official launch date: Dec. 24.

SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket for a record 11th time Saturday (Dec. 18) to deliver 52 Starlink satellites into orbit.

Comet Leonard may be sparking meteor showers at Venus this weekend during a relatively close approach of the comet to the planet.

The Sentinel of the Spaceways returns in January from veteran creators Ron Marz and Ron Lim.

The discoverer of Comet Leonard has shared a few tips to help see the bright object in the night sky this month.

The universe is incredibly old, incredibly large and teeming with potentially habitable planets. So why haven't we found any sign of aliens yet?

According to conspiracy theorists, the Black Knight satellite is an alien spacecraft orbiting Earth. Here's what's really going on.

Ingenuity has now spent nearly 33 minutes aloft in the Martian air and visited 10 different Red Planet airfields.

Several factors make Earth unique given what scientists know about the thousands of planets discovered to date.

Skywatchers will have a chance to see Comet Leonard — the brightest comet of 2021 — near Venus in the evening sky tonight (Dec. 17).

Laura Shepard Churchley is not sure if she is an astronaut. The daughter of America's first astronaut to fly into space, Churchley followed in her father's trajectory by lifting off with Blue Origin.

SpaceX will launch its second stack of Starlink satellites from the West Coast early Saturday morning (Dec. 18), and you can watch the action live online. 

The geocentric model is a debunked theory that the Earth is the center of the universe, with the sun and planets revolving around it.

Google is celebrating the 315th birthday of Émilie du Châtelet, who was a physicist, translator, philosopher despite the exclusion of women from physics at the time.

The existence of primordial black holes in the earliest universe could explain dark matter as well as the sizes of black holes scientists can see today, a new study suggests.

Skywatchers will have a chance to see Comet Leonard — the brightest comet of 2021 — near Venus in the evening sky tonight (Dec. 17).

The icy process may be present on other worlds.

China broadcast a live classroom from its new space station on Dec. 9, in an effort to both inspire students and present a friendly image of the country's space ambitions.

Here's why December's Cold Moon is the longest full moon of the year.

A multiverse may be a natural prediction of the physical theories that define the beginning of the universe.

The UN says temperatures were "more befitting the Mediterranean than the Arctic."