Space News & Blog Articles

The growing problem of space junk poses a risk to future space missions, but the solution isn't going to be easy.

Three astronauts on China's new space station have performed the country's first spacewalk and are busy configuring the module for future crews.

A staple of mythology, the hero Hercules has a strange celestial story.

See photos of Boeing's Orbital Flight Test 2 mission, the second uncrewed test flight of its Starliner astronaut taxi.

Europe's Ariane 5 heavy-lift rocket roared back into action today (July 30) after nearly a year-long hiatus, launching two telecommunications satellites to orbit.

Blue Origin's protest against NASA's decision to not hire the company to build its next human moon lander has been shut down by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Boeing's Starliner capsule has left the launch pad, just 24 hours after it got there.

It's been quite an eventful year for NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.

Yesterday's unexpected tilting of the International Space Station was caused by a software glitch, according to Russian space agency Roscosmos.

It's safe to say that UFOs, now branded UAPs, are back.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter explores the "intriguing" Raised Ridges during its latest and most complex flight to date.

China's Zhurong rover has quietly clocked up 1,900 feet (585 meters) of driving on Mars and has been using its science instruments to check out nearby geologic features in Utopia Planitia.

New data from the European Gaia mission help shed light on the nature and origins of the spiral structure of the Milky Way.

The more we learn about exoplanets, the more we realize the universe is stranger than we ever knew.

Europe's powerful Ariane 5 rocket will fly for the first time in nearly a year today (July 30), and you can watch the liftoff live.

SpaceX chief Elon Musk just gave us an inside look at the engine section of a Super Heavy rocket that's coming together at the company's South Texas site. There's a lot of plumbing involved.

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will have to wait to make its triumphant trip to space.

Nauka's bumpy ride to the International Space Station didn't get any smoother after the new Russian science module docked on Thursday (July 29).

The CST-100 Starliner capsule and its Atlas V rocket rolled out to their pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station this morning (July 29) ahead of their planned Friday liftoff.

Bright reflections that radar detected beneath the south pole of Mars may not be underground lakes as previously thought but deposits of clay instead, a new study finds.

A pair of astronomers have proposed two new strategies for preventing possible asteroid impacts.