Space News & Blog Articles

The Gemini North telescope turned its gaze toward the Pinwheel Galaxy, offering a crystal-clear view of a new supernova discovered in May 2023.

A new mosaic image released to celebrate 20 years of the Mars Express spacecraft shows the Red Planet as never seen before, revealing a multitude of features across its worn and scarred surface.

SpaceX's Dragon capsules have spent more time in orbit, and launched toward the International Space Station more often, than NASA's space shuttle fleet.

Skywatchers can see the moon meet up with Saturn in the early hours of June 10 as the two bodies make a close approach in the night sky.

Astronauts on NASA's Artemis moon missions might look for signs of life in shadowed polar craters — life that could have traveled with people from Earth.

An astronaut who helped assemble the International Space Station is now behind a series of space building projects that are on a very different scale. Naoko Yamazaki advised on Nanoblock's new kits.

A monstrous galactic cluster is devouring another group of galaxies whole, causing it to emit a 1.5 million light-year-long trail of hot gas from its rear — the largest of this type ever seen.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered hundreds of galaxies that existed when the universe was less than 600 million years old.

The Pentagon has confirmed it is buying SpaceX's Starlink broadband services to provide communications in Ukraine.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has obscured the view of Earth-monitoring satellites like GOES-16 and the PlanetScope constellation.

Aerospace giant Boeing faces a federal lawsuit accusing it of intellectual property theft and misuse of critical components involved in assembling NASA's Artemis moon rocket.

Long spaceflights can cause astronauts' ventricles — cavities in the brain that hold cerebrospinal fluid — to enlarge by up to 25%. And it apparently takes years for the swelling to go down.

Get up to speed on all the Transformers movies released so far, both in chronological and release order, with our comprehensive guide.

Night Sky is a stargazing app built on ease of use and a sense of wonder.

Scientists have developed a new tool that can keep Hubble Space Telescope photos free of the bright streaks caused by fast-moving satellites.

The gamma-ray burst dubbed "the BOAT," or the brightest of all time, has a unique jet structure that may explain its extreme nature and why its afterglow persisted for so long.

A new search for extraterrestrial life has scientists looking inward — toward the center of our galaxy.

Look North as the stars appear in June and July to have a chance of seeing rare noctilucent (or 'night-shining') clouds with the naked eye.

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed the faintest galaxy yet seen in the early universe, a curious object that lies 13.3 billion light-years from Earth.

The U.S. Northeast woke up to a "horribly smoky day" on Wednesday (June 7) as a low-pressure system funnels toxic smoke from wildfires in Canada across the Atlantic Coast.

United Launch Alliance plans to conduct a crucial test-firing of its next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket today (June 7), and you can watch it live.