Space News & Blog Articles

NASA's Parker Solar Probe swoops in for its seventh and final swing past Venus ahead of its history-making encounter with the sun on Christmas Eve.

A new design competition, dubbed Project Hyperion, is calling for submissions for the design of a crewed interstellar generation ship.

A review of Netflix's new "The Man Who Loved UFOs," a film exploring a 1986 flying saucer hoax that captured the attention of a nation.

NASA astronauts can vote from space, but why can't they endorse political candidates? As it turns out, U.S. federal law specifically prohibits them from doing so.

While you can get good discounts during both shopping events, we take a look at which is better between Black Friday and the Christmas sales.

Matthew McConaughey narrates four new cinematic teaser trailers for out-of-this-world alien creatures in upcoming sci-fi role playing game "Exodus."

"This is incredibly exciting, as up to now we have not had a tool for detecting plastics in coastal environments from space."

The neutron star 4U 1820-30 is one of the fastest spinning bodies in the universe, spinning at 716 times a second and erupting like an atomic bomb, NASA's NICER telescope has found.

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega has found a surprising lack of planets.

Dragon is scheduled to arrive at 10:15 a.m. EST.

India plans to launch astronauts to Earth orbit no sooner than 2026, roughly a year past the previously known timeline, following a series of uncrewed flight tests slated to begin in December.

In a rare show of openness about the X-37B, Boeing Space released a video detailing how the space plane's aerobraking maneuvers help change the spacecraft's orbit.

There are four Americans currently living in space, and each has had the opportunity to add their voice to the more than 160 million other Americans able to participate in the 2024 Presidential election.

Microgravity makes water do weird and wonderful things. NASA astronaut Don Pettit took advantage of that fact to create a colorful ball that resembles Jupiter.

What was Kylo Ren up to between "The Last Jedi" and "The Rise of Skywalker?" Marvel's new comic book series has the answers.

Jupiter has dozens of moons. Four of them in particular are of interest to planetary scientists.

Don't miss the Taurid meteor shower peak with colorful fireballs and shooting stars this week

With both Alien and Predator back in action, here's what we can learn from their first big-screen crossover two decades ago.

Mars' global magnetic field may have hung around for 200 million years longer than scientists had thought, possibly giving life a longer window to take hold on the Red Planet.

SpaceX scrubbed a planned launch of 23 Starlink satellites on Sunday (Nov. 3) due to a helium issue in the first stage of the company's Falcon 9 rocket.

Liftoff is scheduled for 9:29 p.m. ET today (Nov. 4).