Space News & Blog Articles

Researchers have reported evidence of FRBs that each last for a microsecond — the shortest FRBs yet observed.

Artemis 2 moon astronauts took in a big car racing event in Texas on Oct. 22. NASA's Reid Wiseman and Canada's Jeremy Hansen appeared on the grid at the F1 Grand Prix.

The European Space Agency has announced a timeline for key testing milestones for its upcoming next-generation Ariane 6 rocket.

Astronomers have determined that cosmic winds around clouds of gas and dust are key for the formation of hot and dense young stars.

Flipping through his new book of more than 200 photos of Earth taken during his second stay on the International Space Station, you get the sense Thomas Pesquet thoroughly captured the planet.

A new analysis has concluded that the Gulf Stream is definitely slowing, but whether it's due to climate change is hard to tell.

Naturally occurring superheavy elements beyond those listed in the periodic table could potentially explain why asteroid 33 Polyhymnia is so dense, new research suggests.

October 2023's Full Hunter's Moon will see the lunar disk slip into the shadow of Earth for a partial lunar eclipse on Saturday, Oct. 28

A group of three researchers earned the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics for work that has revolutionized how scientists study the electron – by illuminating molecules with attosecond-long flashes of light.

A new analysis of moon samples brought to Earth in 1972 reveals the moon is 4.46 billion years old.

Jean Wright used to sew critical hardware for NASA's space shuttle program. A new book by Elise Matich celebrates the "Sew Sister" team that brought astronauts into space.

Aurora records in royal chronicles from Korea show that during the 'Maunder Minimum' between 1645 and 1715, the sun's solar cycles became several years shorter than they are today.

Space Perspective introduced its latest addition to its space tourism operation: a uniquely designed restroom called the 'Space Spa' that will be a key part of its Spaceship Neptune capsule.

China's forthcoming Tropical Deep-sea Neutrino Telescope (TRIDENT) will search for the origins of cosmic rays in momentary flashes of light beneath the ocean's surface.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch 23 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida tonight (Oct. 21) on the company's second mission of the day.

The University of California, Berkeley, and NASA's Ames Research Center just unveiled plans for a new $2 billion space research center in Silicon Valley.

The "law of increasing functional information" says that complex systems in nature evolve to become more complex.

There are a wide variety of ways you can get involved on "International Observe the Moon Night" — no matter where you live.

Astronomers estimate that there are about 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe. And many of those stars are as bright or even brighter than our sun. So, why isn’t space filled with dazzling light?

SpaceX fired one of the six Raptor engines on its Ship 26 Starship prototype on Friday (Oct. 20) in a deorbit burn test in South Texas.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch 21 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from California early Saturday morning (Oct. 21).