Space News & Blog Articles

SpaceX launched a batch of spy satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office tonight (Sept. 5), the company's second orbital mission of the day.

September's Full Harvest Moon will be a supermoon in addition to experiencing a partial lunar eclipse. Here's everything you need to know for this month's full moon.

A new teaser and plot description has arrived for Hulu’'s "Alien: Earth" TV series.

NASA's testing a solar sail system in space, and the spacecraft that brought the tech there has snapped a photo.

After another major universe refresh, No Man's Sky continues its journey to become the ultimate time sink space game by adding alien fishing.

By demonstrating the ability for joint observations at the short radio wavelength of 0.87mm, the Event Horizon Telescope has improved its observational acuity by half.

NASA's Starliner astronauts will temporarily have an emergency spot available on a SpaceX Crew Dragon, but they can't wear spacesuits there. That will change in a few weeks.

A SpaceX rocket carrying the 7,001st Starlink internet satellite launched into orbit from Florida today (Sept. 5), then aced its landing at sea.

Meet Phaethon, a "rock comet" that blurs the definitions between asteroid and comet, and learn why it will be worth paying attention to this fascinating object in the coming years.

The reddish structures of our neighboring galaxy glow brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Although officially known as the celestial archer, the zodiacal constellation of Sagittarius is far better recognized as a teapot. Here's how to see it this season.

A new video from an astronaut's vantage point in space captures a bright green burst over Earth as a meteor exploded in the night sky.

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have rereleased new "sonified" images of nearby objects, including the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A.

Energy-packed plasma waves pump enough energy into streams of solar wind to propel them to their unexpectedly high speeds, observations by two sun-studying spacecraft suggest.

Starliner's astronauts will spend at least 8 months in space, longer than a typical ISS crew. But numerous other astronauts have safely spent a year on the ISS, or even longer.

Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station are studying microbes, to help determine if some of Earth's early lifeforms can handle a simulated cosmic environment.

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged one of Andromeda's dwarf galaxies. It's named Pegasus.

The Celestron Origin is an easy-to-use smart telescope that will have you producing stunning pictures of deep sky objects in minutes.

Blue Origin's droneship, named "Jacklyn," arrived at Florida's Port Canaveral ahead of the inaugural launch of the company's huge New Glenn rocket next month.

It's a little on the expensive side, but this Lego space station playset packs in multiple ways to play.

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will fly back to Earth for a landing on Sept. 7, but without its crew. Its two astronauts will ride home on SpaceX Crew Dragon in February 2025.