Space News & Blog Articles

"Twisted Tatooine" binary star systems could be a major player in ejecting rogue planets that go on to drift through the Milky Way without a stellar parent to heat or illuminate them.

A Russian military satellite with a "history of unusual maneuvering" was spotted as it approached a satellite in geostationary orbit in April 2024.

This year's U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony was a reunion of sorts, as honorees David Hilmers and Marsha Ivins took the stage under Atlantis, the shuttle on which they crossed paths.

India's Agnikul Cosmos successfully launched a test vehicle powered by a homegrown 3D printed rocket engine.

SpaceX plans to launch its huge Starship rocket on Thursday (June 6), provided it clears the required regulatory hurdles.

Astronomers have detected giant, magnetic stars outside the Milky Way for the first time. These infant stars in the Magellanic Clouds could reveal details of early stellar evolution.

Rocket Lab will launch the second of two cubesats for NASA's PREFIRE climate change mission tonight (May 31), and you can watch the action live.

Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) mission failed to respond to a signal sent Monday — but all hope is not lost.

NOAA is set to launch an advanced new weather satellite on June 25 when its GOES-U spacecraft launches atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The First Annual Space Piracy Conference aims to explore the risks of piracy in space and solutions to this potentially devastating economic and legal problem.

To create more high resolution maps of the moon, scientists are enlisting the help of algorithms.

Lego is adding another color of spaceman minifigure to its roster, and you can vote for your favorite for a limited time.

SpaceX is set to launch another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites from Florida tonight (May 31), adding to a very busy stretch in spaceflight.

There have been some rumblings of the next Star Wars series, The Acolyte, getting the axe before its first season even premieres, but all is not what it seems.

Peru and Slovakia both signed NASA's Artemis Accords on Thursday (May 30). It's an agreement that promises peaceful and transparent exploration of the moon and outer space.

A new simulation has shown elusive intermediate-mass black holes may form in dense globular clusters of millions of tightly packed stars, thanks to a chaotic collision chain.

The "Star Trek: Discovery" finale seems to serve chiefly as a launch vehicle for the forthcoming Section 31 TV movie and Starfleet Academy series — and then there's all the other stuff.

The James Webb Space Telescope caught the Magellanic-like galaxy NGC 4449 is undergoing an intense bout of star formation.

The journal pages of Israel's first astronaut have been added to the country's national library, more than 20 years after they were found among the debris from the tragedy that claimed his life.

Saturn will appear just above the third quarter moon in the sky in the early hours of Friday (May 31).

A large piece of debris was found on a mountainside in North Carolina last week, suspected to be left over from the reentry of SpaceX's Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station.