Space News & Blog Articles

Astronaut Nicole Stott's new book "Back to Earth" chronicles her experience on the International Space Station and how lessons there could help people on Earth.

How can going to space change the way we live on Earth? Sure, spaceflight leads to new technologies, but it also offers new philosophies.

These are some of the last good looks we'll get at NASA's huge James Webb Space Telescope before it leaves this world forever.

South Korea's first launch of its new rocket, dubbed Nuri seemed to go smoothly — until engineers determined that the mock payload hadn't been delivered to the proper orbit for unknown reasons.

Want to watch the Marvel movies in chronological order? Well look no further than our helpful breakdown of the MCU timeline.

In a new study, male mice exposed to simulated galactic cosmic radiation (GCR) — high-energy radiation in space more commonly known as deep-space radiation — experienced impaired spatial learning.

The detection of interstellar objects in the solar system has raised an interesting question: How much of the solar system is made of foreign material?

Plumes of ionized gas released by accreting black holes spread across vast distances of the intergalactic space, affecting star formation thousands of lightyears away from their source, a new study showed.

The full Hunter's Moon will light the way to Uranus in the early morning sky this week, and with some luck you could see a "shooting star" while looking for the celestial pair.

Days after NASA's new mission to a mysterious group of asteroids launched, spacecraft personnel continue battling an issue with one of the vehicle's two massive solar arrays.

UFO enthusiasts who rallied in 2019 to invade Area 51 may have been joking about "storming" the base. But law enforcement officials took the idea very, very seriously.

Astronomers may have for the first time detected evidence that a distant planet had its atmosphere partially blown away by a giant impact, a new study finds.

An uncrewed Russian cargo ship will begin swapping parking spots at the International Space Station tonight (Oct. 20) and take just over a day reach its new berth.

A failed Russian spy satellite crashed back to Earth early this morning (Oct. 20), burning up in a brilliant fireball spotted by many observers in the American Midwest.

NASA's next space station launch is set for Halloween and will put four more astronauts into space on a SpaceX rocket.

NASA will launch three sounding rockets from its Wallops Flight Facility in coastal Virginia on flights that local observers may be able to spot in the sky.

Hero Collector is christening The Rocinante, their first ship in a new line of collectible "The Expanse" ship models.

New Horizons was the first spacecraft to visit dwarf planet Pluto and Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth. The spacecraft is still actively exploring the solar system.

You can play as Dune's Paul Atreides or his co-star, Chani, in Fortnite now.

Rocket Lab plans to recover the first stage of an Electron launcher during its next mission, which is scheduled to lift off from New Zealand during a two-week window that opens on Nov. 11.

NASA's longest-serving astronaut now has his name on one of the agency's longest-serving structures. Johnson Space Center director Vanessa Wyche led a ceremony to name Hangar 276 for John Young.