Space News & Blog Articles

New measurements suggest that the traditional view of the Milky Way as a galaxy with four major spiral arms extending out from a thick centralized bulge of stars could be wrong.

Buzz Aldrin already had the moon to his credit. Now he has a star. The Apollo 11 astronaut and colonel in the U.S. Air Force received a promotion to the honorary rank of brigadier general.

The Matrix "Reloaded" and "Revolutions" struggled to live up to the hype, but how do they look two decades later?

Ten years ago a promising franchise lost its way with a Wrath of Khan tribute act.

Kathy Lueders, who retired as NASA's human spaceflight chief at the end of April, will help SpaceX develop its giant new Starship deep-space transportation system.

A second consortium has plans to possibly boost the Hubble Space Telescope and extend its science mission, after SpaceX raised the idea in 2022.

The four-person Ax-2 will launch at 5:37 p.m. ET on May 21 and arrive at the International Space Station about 16 hours later, if all goes according to plan.

A NASA scientific balloon flight was terminated Sunday (May 14) after the craft developed an irreparable leak about a day and a half into flight.

Follow along with Axiom Space's Ax-2 mission to the International Space Station, the second-ever all-private mission to the orbital lab.

An Earth-based telescope spotted Europe's JUICE spacecraft as it zooms toward Jupiter to study the giant planet's mysterious, icy ocean moons.

Stratolaunch's giant Roc airplane dropped a prototype of the company's Talon hypersonic vehicle in mid-air for the first time during a test flight on Saturday (May 13).

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a rare main asteroid belt comet, discovering water around the object that could help reveal how Earth became a wet planet teeming with life.

Saturn's rings are surprisingly youthful and much younger than the gas giant planet itself, new research has revealed.

A thrilling new preview trailer for "Foundation" season 2 has just landed from Apple TV+ for its July 14 premiere.

Marvel Studios has dropped a fresh behind-the-scenes trailer for June's "Secret Invasion" series, offering a glimpse as Nick Fury's return.

Quasars, the most extreme phenomena in the universe, are triggered when galactic collisions deliver gas to feeding black holes, new research suggests.

A stunning composite image of the sun during a recent 'hybrid eclipse' in Australia is further proof that solar activity is ramping up.

Stephen Bowen remembers seeing Skylab fly overhead. At eight years old, Bowen's experience fueled his interest in spaceflight. Little did he know where that would take him 50 years later.

The ShadowCam imager aboard South Korea's Danuri moon orbiter recently captured a photo of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter as the two spacecraft zipped past each other.

While ChatGPT + AI is a powerful tool that can augment new discoveries, it can't yet replace the human-driven process of synthesizing new information to generate new insights into science.

Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones are set to star as Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan in the upcoming film "Voyagers" about the legendary astronomer.