Space News & Blog Articles

Maxar Technologies' WorldView-1 satellite captured a great photo of SpaceX's Starship vehicle on the launch pad in South Texas ahead of its upcoming test flight.

Paramount rolls out new "Star Trek: very Short Treks" animated promos for "Star Trek" Day 2023.

Virgin Galactic plans to launch its 'Galactic 03' space tourism mission on Sept. 8, sending three customers to the final frontier and back. You won't be able to watch it live, though.

United Launch Alliance has rolled out an Atlas V rocket ahead of a planned spysat launch on Saturday (Sept. 9). It was the second rollout for this particular mission.

Astrophotographers worldwide have been snapping incredible photos of Comet Nishimura as it makes its way through the solar system.

As it orbits the Earth studying the sun, the Aditya-L1 mission operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation will attempt to solve some of the most pressing solar mysteries.

India's Aditya-L1 solar probe has snapped some striking shots in space, capturing itself and the Earth and moon. Aditya-1 is getting ready for its mission to study the sun, which is a first for India.

Watch ferocious hurricanes Jova and Lee spring up above the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean through the eyes of satellites.

China has added to its growing network of classified Yaogan series satellites with a pair of Long March rocket launches, adding a third satellite in the Yaogan 33 series of classified Chinese remote sensing satellites.

A newly discovered space rock about 6.5 feet wide (2 meters) zipped past Earth today at a distance five times closer than GPS satellites orbit.

As the Star Wars: Ahsoka series on Disney Plus continues, you might be wondering why Ezra Bridger is such a big deal. Meet the lost Padawan.

Look to the east in the evenings throughout September to find the Great Square of Pegasus, a group of four stars of roughly equal brightness, as it climbs higher in the night sky.

The frequency at which a star is being shredded by a black hole in a nearby galaxy offers clues into the poorly understood field of partial tidal disruption events.

A suspected test launch of a new hypersonic missile system from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station was cancelled on Wednesday (Sept. 6).

Cosmology, the first skincare product designed with space travel in mind, will find its way to the International Space Station next year.

The Celestron EclipSmart Travel Solar Scope 50 telescope is an affordable way to view solar eclipses and the sun’s surface.

Gravitationally lensed light from a distant quasar, powered by a supermassive black hole, could help constrain the properties of dark matter.

A stunning bright-green fireball was captured by a phone camera in a playground in Turkey.

The United States Space and Air Forces launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile 4,200 miles (6,760 km) on Sept. 6 from Vandenberg Space Force in California.

A prototype of a NASA moon rover, called VIPER, slithered down a ramp at an agency lab. The lunar mission will hunt for water ice, which is crucial in helping astronauts during their landing missions set to begin in the mid-2020s or so.

Japan sent two ambitious missions soaring into the heavens today (Sept. 6) — a pioneering moon lander and a powerful X-ray space telescope.