Space News & Blog Articles

While space is often referred to as a vacuum, it isn't completely empty.

From the moon and Jupiter to famous nebulae and galaxies, here’s your beginner-friendly guide to what to point your brand-new telescope at.

The night sky is the Christmas gift that just keeps giving.

They won't be home for Christmas, but astronauts in space are finding their own way to make the season bright.

All the NASA engineers and scientists need is a star on top of the telescope in the cleanroom.

As a space scientist, I predict that the company will soon have to reckon with a growing problem: space debris.

Long before modern telescopes, early astronomers mapped the heavens with math, myth, and sheer curiosity. This crossword quiz celebrates the minds who first charted the cosmos.

Overall, the Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the Earth as a whole.

The axion could be a contender to explain the mystery of dark matter.

2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months.

The South Sandwich Islands were born from a tectonic collision, forged by volcanism and relentlessly reshaped by ice, wind and waves.

The reindeer ain't got time to bleed.

On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the first around the moon. NASA will return in 2026.

Using the Hubble space telescope, astronomers have imaged "'Dracula’s Chivito" the largest site of planetary birth ever seen.

China overcomes human spaceflight emergency and makes leaps with lunar hardware tests

The microwave-sized sensor detects 'spectral fingerprints' of important minerals.

The two largest and most expensive Lego Star Wars sets available go head-to-head: The UCS Millennium Falcon and the UCS Death Star. But which is best?

According to the patent, habitable modules would rotate around a central axis to simulate gravity for crew by producing an outward-pushing centrifugal force.

Highlights from a cometary trio that captured our imaginations.

"Science doesn't always go as planned. In any case, there's a lot of work to be done."

An Indian LVM3 rocket is scheduled to launch the massive BlueBird 6 smartphone satellite for AST SpaceMobile tonight (Dec. 23), and you can watch the action live.