Space News & Blog Articles

A large plume of Saharan dust settled across the Gulf states this week after an epic journey from Africa.

A new trailer and poster has been released for "Futurama" Season 12 on Hulu, returning on July 29.

We explore why comparing the number of solar flares between solar cycles is more complicated than you may think and why many have got it wrong.

Discover the fascinating world of blazars: their discovery, formation, and the science behind these energetic cosmic phenomena.

Could human landing systems touching down on the moon deliver water from their rocket exhaust plumes? New research says it's a possibility.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed the dramatic dance between a supermassive black hole-powered quasar and merging galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin a $2.27 billion contract to build NOAA's next generation GeoXO weather satellite constellation.

Saber Interactive just launched a frightening new story trailer for the horror video game "A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead."

In 1986, the Voyager 2 spacecraft discovered Uranus has a strangely weak radiation belt. Now, researchers think this could be linked to "traffic jams" caused by the world's warped magnetic field.

A sparkling jeweled ring, created through a cosmic phenomenon called gravitational lensing, has been imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope.

This Lego Marvel set packs in a venomous bite.

The new Ariane 6 rocket launched for the first time ever today (July 9), opening a new chapter in European spaceflight history.

The Milky Way is warped, and the alignment of this warp is precessing backwards around the galaxy under the influence of a squashed dark matter halo.

A new computer simulation flies through tangled galaxies and zooms in on a black hole to dissect how these voids feats on surrounding matter.

New research suggests that galaxies with quasars at their active hearts are seven times more likely to harbor elusive supermassive black hole binary paintings than other galaxies.

The Vaonis Vespera II is probably the best smart telescope you can buy for the money. Simplicity, style and incredibly clear astrophotographs make it a fantastic instrument.

Europe's new heavy-lift Ariane 6 rocket is set to make its long-delayed debut on Tuesday (July 9).

Jameel Janjua made it 'to the bitter end' in a Canadian astronaut government selection in 2009, but wasn't chosen. He found a different path to space, however: Virgin Galactic.

A NASA asteroid-hunting mission is coming to a close, paving the way for the next generation of planetary defense efforts.

The expansion of the universe may not be accelerating at the edges of black holes. If this is the case at all event horizons, this may explain "Hubble tension," and the worst prediction in physics.

As if deadly rains of glass, temperatures hot enough to melt lead, and sidewise 5,000 mph winds weren't unfriendly enough, the JWST has found a Jupiter-sized exoplanet also stinks of rotten eggs.