Space News & Blog Articles

NASA and many other countries are planning to bring humans back to the moon soon. But how do we preserve the spacecraft, tools and rovers already on the surface?

The birth secrets of gas giant planets like Jupiter could be revealed by a stunning cosmic phoenix comprised of clumps of gas gathering around a young star.

Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May is about to release a book of 3D photographs of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, based on images gathered by NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft.

NASA's new detector, known as ComPair, is slated to fly next month. The goal is to catch high-energy, invisible beams stemming from things like star explosions, supermassive black holes and gamma-ray bursts.

SpaceX is targeting July 26 for the seventh launch of its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket, a mission that will loft the EchoStar Jupiter 3 communications satellite.

A cosmic chameleon shows off its bright colors in a new image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Season 2 episode 6 lays some interesting ground work, but fails to amaze, much like the rest of the second season.

Director Christopher Nolan delivers an impactful 3-hour portrait of the brilliant physicist who altered humanity's fate.

The U.S. House of Representatives will hear from several witnesses who will offer accounts of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in order to assess government transparency surrounding the issue.

An exclusive interview with Shai Gal, director of Netflix's "Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine" documentary about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Rocky exoplanets could possess large amounts of water from the moment they form, observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest.

The Aeolus satellite will make its fiery return to Earth on Friday (July 28). In a pioneering operation, Aeolus will be guided back to Earth safely. However, the spacecraft won't be returning in one piece.

When NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope comes online, it could be capable of spotting as many as 400 Earth-size rogue planets, and that might merely be the tip of the iceberg.

Seen by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, this peaceful galaxy cluster existed when the universe was just 5.8 billion years old and brimming with chaos.

Ever wondered how light slows down when passing through a material? Here we explore why the answer is not that straightforward.

This visually-appealing and informative stargazing app for Apple devices now comes in a free version with impressive in-app upgrades.

Evelyn Boyd Granville, one of the first Black women to earn a mathematics Ph.D. from a U.S. university, did key work for NASA during early space missions and the moon landing.

Scientists are puzzled by an unusual rock that might've once launched from our planet into space before coming back home in one safe piece.

The chorus of voices calling for the U.S. government to spill the beans on possible alien visitation of Earth is louder than ever. But are we ready for such a revelation?

China is planning to send zebrafish to its space station in the future as part of experiments that aid research into mitigating bone loss in astronauts.

The James Webb Space Telescope stars in "Deep Sky," a new IMAX documentary from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn coming in October 2023.