Space News & Blog Articles

June presents a perfect opportunity to spot the three biggest constellations in the sky — Hydra, Virgo and Ursa Major — but you may have to look beyond standard star charts to find the Big Three.

Lockheed Martin engineers assist Hollywood to design "Top Gun: Maverick's" Darkstar jet

Time to get your laser blasters ready again to hunt down aliens — or at least alien galaxies.

You'll have to hurry as the offer ends June 20.

Scientists are tracing the movement of dust over Martian eons using a high-definition camera from orbit.

The discovery of a neutron star emitting unusual radio signals is rewriting our understanding of these unique star systems.

SpaceX's next cargo mission to the International Space Station won't launch this week after all.

This fresh Hubble Space Telescope image looks like a gassy disaster unfolding deep in space.

A new simulation maps the first few seconds after the Big Bang, focusing on what scientists call the intergalactic medium, or the gas and dust between galaxies.

Russian cosmonaut Valery Ryumin, who launched on four space station missions including the final U.S. space shuttle flight to dock with the former Mir outpost, has died.

Over the past century, humans have pushed CO₂ levels to their highest in 2 million years – overtaking natural emissions – mostly by burning fossil fuels, causing ongoing global warming that may make parts of the globe uninhabitable.

The Artemis 1 stack rolled out to Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39B today (June 6) for the second time, gearing up for another crack at its 'wet dress rehearsal.'

SpaceX's Starship vehicle will operate like a gigantic flying Pez dispenser on some missions, if all goes according to plan.

If aliens exist, they do exist, they might be hanging out on Dyson spheres circling the husks of sunlike stars called white dwarfs.

The three Shenzhou-14 astronauts — commander Chen Dong and Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe — are settling in for a lengthy stay aboard China's Tiangong space station.

"It felt like no other ISS imaging session before," photographer Szabolcs Nagy said.

A test of whether asteroid surveys could spot a potentially hazardous asteroid successfully rediscovered Apophis and ruled out the possibility of it striking Earth for the next 100 years.

An asteroid demolition derby took place between 7.8 million and 11.7 million years after the birth of the solar system.

The dust trail from the largest comet outburst on record will be visible to amateur astronomers in late July 2022.

Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center plan to start rolling NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket to its launch pad for testing just after midnight Monday (June 6), and you can watch it live.

On the 10th anniversary of the last transit of Venus, find out what makes these events so special and what else to look out for during the long wait for the next one.