Space News & Blog Articles

A 200,000-light-year-long chain of stars originally thought to be trailing a runaway black hole may actually be a galaxy in disguise.

California-based startup Vast Space plans to launch its Haven-1 space station aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than August 2025.

Astronomers are watching a shadow sweep across the face of a vast disc of planet-birthing gas and dust surrounding the star TW Hydrae.

China's Tianzhou 6 freighter lifted off on May 10, sending clothing, food, water and propellant toward the country's Tiangong space station.

Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for director Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer."

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope captured a snaking jet of matter expelled from a young stellar object in the Orion Nebula, a stellar nursery not far from our solar system.

SpaceX will launch another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (May 10), and you can watch the liftoff live.

A history of Cosmo the Spacedog in Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise.

The Ax-2 mission will test the effect of microgravity in space on the growth of stem cells.

The mystery of how meteorites from Mars can reach Earth may have been solved, as scientists discover rocks can be hurled far from the Martian surface by giant impacts.

A spacecraft operated by Swiss startup ClearSpace will target a piece of debris in orbit after getting there aboard Arianespace's Vega-C rocket.

What time is it on the moon? One wristwatch tried to answer that question, yet was largely forgotten by history.

A bizarre 'ultraluminous X-ray source' shines millions of times brighter than the sun, breaking a physical law called the Eddington limit, a new study finds.

Queqiao 2 ('Magpie Bridge 2') will launch early next year and will be used to support China's upcoming Chang'e 6, 7 and 8 robotic moon missions.

A meteorite crashed through the roof of a home in New Jersey on Monday (May 8). No one was injured by the space rock, which may be part of the ongoing Eta Aquarid meteor shower.

A reverse polarity sunspot is continuing to bombard Earth with powerful solar flares and ejections of plasma that could create auroras as far south as the mid-latitudes of the globe on May 10 and 11.

Astronomers have created a 3D map of the massive elliptical galaxy Messier 87 and gotten a better estimate of the mass of its central supermassive black hole.

The annual Eta Lyrid meteor shower lasts from May 3 to May 14 this year and will produce its most prominent displays on Tuesday.

Chinese scientists have built a chamber to simulate the conditions on the surface of the moon to help prepare the country for future crewed lunar exploration.

Astronomers detected one of the brightest and most energetic cosmic objects ever observed in the form of a star being torn to shreds by a supermassive black hole.

A replica worthy of the Armorer herself.