Space News & Blog Articles

In 2029, the Landolt satellite launched into Earth's orbit will serve to calibrate telescopes on Earth.

Soviet-era cosmonaut Vyacheslav Zudov, whose failed Soyuz 23 docking with Russia's Salyut 5 space station ended with the first and only emergency splashdown on board a Soyuz spacecraft, has died.

The return of Boeings 1st crewed Starliner mission has been delayed to June 22.

China has revealed details about a miniature rover tucked away on the country's pioneering Chang'e 6 lunar far side sample-return mission.

Maxar's WorldView-3 satellite captured a striking image of Boeing's Starliner capsule docked to the ISS on June 7, a day after the vehicle arrived at the orbiting complex.

A European experiment aboard China's Chang'e 6 mission has recorded certain charged particles previously undetected on the moon's surface.

As we approach solar maximum, something strange is happening to the sun's magnetic field. We explore this flip in polarity in more detail and look at the effects it could have on Earth.

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Eight former SpaceX employees are suing the company and its founder and CEO, Elon Musk, alleging sexual harassment and wrongful termination.

NASA's NuSTAR telescope found evidence of cosmic fireworks and X-ray echoes coming from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*.

There have been nearly a dozen billion-dollar disasters so far this year, with two powerful severe weather events adding to the list in May.

The first astronauts to fly Boeing's new Starliner vehicle have spoken of the spacecraft in glowing terms.

NASA is testing how infrared light can transfer far more information than radio frequency communications.

NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope has imaged Westerlund 1, the largest and closest super star cluster to Earth, in stunning detail.

Volcanic meteorites from Mars give scientists a glimpse into the planet's structure.

The presence of sulfur dioxide around a hot Neptune exoplanet with an evaporating atmosphere could help us understand how it formed.

Hubble has mapped the outflow "burps" of a nearby feeding supermassive black hole-powered quasar for the first time, measuring speeds of 6.5 million mph, around 8,500 times the speed of sound.

Scientists have revealed key properties of radioactive promethium, a rare earth element with poorly understood applications, using a groundbreaking new method.

NASA has postponed a scheduled EVA today (June 13), as the two astronauts slated for the spacewalk were already putting on their suits.

It sounded like a nightmare scenario: An astronaut commander on the International Space Station in distress and a flight surgeon on Earth stuck in traffic. But it was all a simulation.

Who's the man who turns the Doctor's head in Regency England in "Doctor Who" episode 6 "Rogue"?