Space News & Blog Articles

Meteor streaks delighted skywatchers this weekend as the Earth passed through the dust trail of Halley's Comet in an annual meteor shower display.

Space coast residents got a treat early Friday (May 6) when SpaceX's the latest Starlink launch spawned an eerie glowing cloud in the sky.

SpaceX's Crew-3 astronaut mission's return to Earth early Friday (May 6) was captured in epic photos.

North Korea launched a new ballistic missile test from a submarine on Saturday (May 7).

A group of 18 space companies is banding together to raise funds in support of Ukraine amid Russia's invasion.

A surprising new photo from the GOES East satellite has revealed what appears to be the word "Go" written in the clouds as seen from space.

Samantha Cristoforetti posted a video to the social media platform from the International Space Station on Thursday (May 5), becoming the first-ever TikToker in the final frontier.

Astronauts will likely make it to the Red Planet's surface before the end of the 2020s, according to SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell.

NASA's next-generation observatory is entering the last stages of preparation before showing scientists an all-new view of the universe.

Aspiring space tourists will need to wait a little longer before soaring into suborbital space with Virgin Galactic.

China's LinkSpace plans to send a rocket into space and land it safely in late 2022, three years after the startup's last major test.

You may have heard that Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin recently threatened, yet again, to pull his nation out of the International Space Station program. Here's what's actually going on.

Scientists are investigating the elusive neutrino with a new experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Lockheed Martin tested a hypersonic weapon prototype for the U.S. military's DARPA that flew at 5 times the speed of sound.

Black holes are real, they're some of the strangest objects in space. Discover what black holes are and how they form with our informative black hole guide.

PSR J0523-7125 is more than 10 times brighter than any known radio pulsar outside the Milky Way.

We talk to Koen and Paul Deetman, the founders of KeokeN Interactive about their ambitious new space adventure game, Deliver Us Mars.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is on a mission to study the sun closer than ever before. Learn more about the fastest spacecraft to date in our solar probe guide.

The very best star projectors for staying cosy beneath the cosmos.

Researchers have detected eight new "echoing" black hole systems in the Milky Way, and they sound like passing through an eerie wind tunnel.

Buddha Lo's pavlova will someday travel "miles and miles" on a NASA mission. Lo, a cheftestant on the Bravo competition "Top Chef: Houston," won the show's space food challenge.