Space News & Blog Articles

Earth will be the farthest from the sun on Monday (July 4) as it reaches aphelion at 3 a.m. EDT (0700 GMT).

The Perseverance team says the rover can still take key weather measurements after pebbles struck a wind sensor amid strong Red Planet gusts.

By studying how flat Earthers talk about their beliefs, we can learn how they make their arguments engaging to their audience, and in turn, learn what makes disinformation spread online.

One of the instrument's early programs includes performing spectroscopy on stellar nursery NGC 133 to spot the small, dark celestial bodies.

For its last international deployment, the aircraft returns to Christchurch for a seventh and final time.

A stubborn solar array on the NASA Lucy mission might yield enough to allow the mission to continue its asteroid-hunting mandate with few issues, NASA reports.

It's clear that space weather can cause blackouts, but scientists are still working to predict extreme events and forecast their potentially devastating effects.

Virgin Orbit just aced its fourth mission in a row, launching seven small satellites in the company's first-ever night flight.

A missile-warning satellite and another spacecraft are on their way to orbit to help the U.S. military get better at tracking fast-moving threats.

China's first successful interplanetary mission has completed mapping the Red Planet more than a year after its arrival.

Capable of both destruction and creation, space volcanoes are common on planets and moons throughout the solar system and beyond.

Marvel Comics releases its long-awaited "Predator" series from Ed Brisson and Kev Walker.

China has launched another in its series of Gaofen Earth observation satellites as it continues building out its space infrastructure.

NASA's little CAPSTONE cubesat is making good progress on its long journey to the moon.

A new study suggests that high-impact exercise could help astronauts limit bone loss while in space.

NASA's Perseverance rover is on the hunt for the "goldilocks" of rocks to sample on Mars.

A hot, dry start to summer has spurred a record number of wildfires in southern Alaska, and weather satellites are tracking the development of the blazes from space.

An amateur astronomer found a fossilized surprise in the well-studied sky near the bright Andromeda Galaxy.

One of the farthest active comets ever spotted will make its closest approach to Earth on July 14, and here's how you can catch the action live.

Artemis Base Camp will be established in the moon's south polar region, in a to-be-determined spot that features plentiful sunlight, direct-to-Earth communications and good access to water ice.

July's full moon will once again be a supermoon, reaching its perigee or closest point to our planet on July 13.