Space News & Blog Articles

If there is a multiverse where every possible outcome happens, then in one of those universes Marv Murchins from "Home Alone" is NASA's chief. Such a thing is playing out on 'For All Mankind.'

Gravitationally lensed images of two different supernovas in the same galaxy can be used to measure the expansion rate of the universe.

Scientists have no idea what the spokes are.

PAHs may be able to form in cold regions of space, affecting what scientists think about the origins of planets and possibility of alien life.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch two radar reconnaissance satellites for the German military early Saturday morning (Dec. 23).

The moon and Jupiter will meet-up with Jupiter for one last time in 2023 on Friday (Dec. 22), with the two bodies making a close approach to each other in the sky as they reach conjunction.

Six years after the first satellite was launched, editors from the Encyclopaedia Britannica posed a question to five eminent thinkers of the day: “Has man’s conquest of space increased or diminished his stature?”

We've all heard the "Twelve Days of Christmas," but for those with a passion for space, let's sing along to the "12 space patches of Christmas" designed by an artist to the real stars, Tim Gagnon.

A biography of Johannes Kepler, from his troubled childhood to his mission to mathematically formalize Copernicus' heliocentric model by finding divine reasoning within the orbits of the planets.

Launching in Jan. 2024, the Einstein Probe will use a "lobster eye" to search the universe for blasts of X-rays and help scientists investigate powerful cosmic events like supernova explosions.

An industrial dispute becomes a matter of life and death, while Margo prepares for an unlikely comeback.

After a NASA mission redirected an asteroid moonlet with a planned crash in 2022, a new model is building on that effort to show how a nuclear weapon could smash a space rock to pieces.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is poised to launch for a record-setting 19th time tonight (Dec. 22), sending 23 Starlink internet satellites to orbit.

A festive image from the Very Large Telescope shows the clouds of the 'Running Chicken Nebula' looking like a turkey fleeing a cosmic Christmas dinner.

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft will depart the International Space Station on Friday morning (Dec. 22). You can watch the action live, for free.

Black holes create some of the most extreme environments in the cosmos — can stars form in such conditions?

The twinkling lights of the Christmas Tree Cluster tell us about the science going on there.

Steve Wozniak's space sustainability start-up Privateer launched a prototype of its Pono space module to encourage users to share 'stuff' in space.

Nacreous clouds also known as polar stratospheric clouds have been appearing across northern skies. We've rounded up some of the best photos of these rare 'rainbow clouds'.

Intuitive Machines will wait an extra month, until mid-February 2024, to send a private moon lander into space atop a SpaceX rocket.

A newfound population of stars in nearby dwarf galaxies are the long-sought precursors of hydrogen-poor supernovas.