Space News & Blog Articles

China's decision to delay the return of its Shenzhou 20 astronauts due to a possible space debris impact has led to discussion of space rescue planning — or lack of it.

SpaceX launched another big batch of its Starlink broadband satellites from Florida's Space Coast on Monday night (Nov. 10).

An Italian producer has announced plans for the first western film to launch a filmmaker into low-Earth orbit to shoot key scenes.

A mind-boggling lack of encryption allowed researchers to eavesdrop on satellite links and intercept vast quantities of private communications, including those by government and military officials.

Author Adam Christopher takes us to Mustafar and beyond in the chilling new sci-fi story "Star Wars: Master of Evil."

Four Chinese rockets launched over the weekend, taking the nation's total for 2025 to a record-breaking 72 orbital missions.

Scientists just 3D printed human muscle tissue in microgravity conditions. The ultimate goal is to make organs in space.

A new "exosuit" was put through its paces with analog astronauts in Australia. The research team would love to try the suit out on the International Space Station, too.

Galactic Energy's Ceres-1 rocket suffered a failure of its upper stage during a launch on Sunday (Nov. 9), leading to the loss of all three payloads on board.

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Indiana as two incoming coronal mass ejections could spark geomagnetic storm conditions overnight.

New lab experiments suggest that water may not be a rare visitor delivered by chance but rather a fundamental ingredient woven into the process of planetary birth.

"Solar Orbiter can now provide this missing piece of the puzzle."

I took my Canon EOS Rebel T3i and headed to the fields to see whether the 14-year-old camera could grab great photos of the night sky.

There is still time to look out for Taurid meteors lighting up November nights.

The perfect playset for kids wanting to jet off into space, the Lego City Modular Galactic Spaceship is a fun, detailed build.

Excess heat detected at Saturn moon Enceladus' north pole helps to account for a finely balanced energy budget that keeps the moon's ocean liquefied. What could this mean in the search for life?

Geomagnetic storm conditions are possible Nov. 10 through Nov. 12.

The European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite mission captured a plume of ash over the Planchón-Peteroa volcanic complex.

With almost 30% off this B&H Photo deal on the eQuinox 2 is even cheaper than Unistellar's own Black Friday sale.

NASA's first Mars launch in more than five years will wait a little longer to get off the ground.

Check out these Apollo 16 moon samples, seen by the powerful eyes of an electron microscope.