Space News & Blog Articles

On Wednesday, Nov. 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will make its first flyby of an asteroid, zooming past a space rock named Dinkinesh before heading to the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has completed its safety review of SpaceX's Starship — but that doesn't mean the giant vehicle has been officially cleared for its second-ever liftoff.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are around the corner — what can we expect regarding binocular discounts this year?

X-ray observations from the supernova remnant SN 1006 show its magnetic fields align to accelerate cosmic rays.

Marvel's new "Black, White & Blood" is offered in the perfect format to give avid fans a stark take on those deadly acid-spewing killing machines introduced in the 1979 classic, "Alien."

Scientists successfully grew mouse embryos aboard the International Space Station in a landmark study that implies humans could reproduce in space.

A partial lunar eclipse will be visible in most of the world on Oct. 28. Here we look at what time the eclipse will start and where it can be seen.

Lego has revealed the first details and new images for its new "Dune" Royal Atreides Ornithopter that will be available in 2024 and is now open for pre-orders.

Tellurium, an element rarer than platinum on Earth, was just found in the aftermath of a violent cosmic event 1 billion light-years away, thanks to James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA has revealed how the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will grant astronomers the deepest view into the heart of the Milky Way ever as they hunt for planets, stars, black holes and more.

The 'ghost' of ancient river-carved landscape discovered has been preserved beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet since the continent froze over 34 million years ago.

Rocket Lab is still investigating what caused its Electron vehicle to fail on Sept. 19, but the company is confident it will be back on the launch pad in 2023.

Sections of the Orion spacecraft tasked with flying four astronauts around the moon during the Artemis 2 mission have been joined together. The mission is set for no earlier than late 2024.

The Ancient Romans constructed hundreds of forts near their eastern borders in modern-day Syria and Iraq. Declassified spy satellite imagery spotted the forts and may shed light on the battlements' purpose.

A better understanding of exoplanet orbits is helping SETI astronomers reduce their computational costs and conduct their search for intelligent aliens faster.

A Long March 2F rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert today (Oct. 25), carrying the Shenzhou 17 spacecraft and its crew into orbit.

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub got an up-close view of a coolant leak flowing from an external radiator while conducting a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station.

A new climate report finds humanity is pushing Earth's systems into "dangerous instability."

Watch the partial lunar eclipse on Oct. 28 live here on Space.com. We've also rounded up some of the best livestreams for watching the moon enter Earth's shadow.

A best-case projection that meets ambitious Paris Accord targets suggests the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will melt three times faster in the 21st century than it did in the 20th.

Images released by the European Southern Observatory may reveal why Betelgeuse dimmed in 2019.