Space News & Blog Articles

Dinkinesh, the asteroid visited by NSA’s Lucy mission in 2023, has a small moon that is made from two objects touching each other.

Just like the fictional planet of Vulcan was wiped out in Star Trek, new research has destroyed the real-life version of Spock's homeworld, albeit in a less violent fashion.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are back near their launch site in Florida ahead of their Crew Flight Test launch on June 1. A key flight readiness review today will confirm if Boeing Starliner is ready to go, after a helium leak.

Sunspot region AR3697 has returned — unleashing yet another X-class solar flare. Watch it erupt from the sun's eastern limb here.

We’ll soon be playing 'Star Wars: Hunters' on Nintendo Switch and mobile phones, and the latest gameplay trailer has a fun look at game modes and more.

A preview of IDW Publishing's "Star Trek #500" special issue that pays homage to the series' many unforgettable starship captains arriving this year on Star Trek Day.

The Chinese company Galactic Energy sent four satellites into orbit on Wednesday (May 29) with the second sea launch of the Ceres-1 solid rocket.

The largest camera ever built for astronomy arrived in Chile, where it will be installed atop Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope.

Russia's uncrewed Progress 86 cargo craft departed the International Space Station early Tuesday morning (May 28), ending a six-month orbital stay.

A preview of the new season of "Star Trek Online," starring Denise Crosby's Captain Sela.

The four zebrafish China sent to its space station are thriving after spending almost a month in orbit.

ESA and some of its member states have signed the non-binding Zero Debris Charter, committing themselves to take steps to help tackle the orbital debris problem.

Two Chinese astronauts spent about 8.5 hours outside the Tiangong space station today (May 28), setting a new spacewalk-duration record for the country.

Do galaxies, including our own Milky Way, orbit anything in the universe?

The European Space Agency has now released ten images from its dark universe detective spacecraft, Euclid. We asked scientists from various fields to pick their favorite Euclid image thus far.

SpaceX will launch the EarthCARE mission this afternoon (May 28) after sending aloft a group of Starlinks this morning, and you can watch the action live.

A review of director Brad Peyton's new sci-fi adventure flick, "Atlas."

Venus may be as geologically active as Earth, with volcanoes possibly spewing on its surface in the present day.

An innovative telescope design has proven successful for daytime skywatching, opening new doors for uninterrupted observation of the cosmos.

With La Nina conditions evolving in the Pacific and near-record warm waters in the Atlantic, scientists expect the 2024 hurricane season to be a busy one.

SpaceX is set to launch yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida on Tuesday morning (May 28).