Space News & Blog Articles

SpaceX plans to send 56 Starlink satellites to orbit on June 23 to grow its broadband megaconstellation, and you can watch the whole launch live online for free.

SpaceX recently chilled and spun the engine pumps on Ship 25, the upper-stage prototype that will make the next Starship test flight.

A satellite photo captures a mountain of discarded clothes in Chile that's growing by about 39,000 tons a year.

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured a panoramic view of the Milky Way, a comet and other night sky sights from a dark sky preserve in Portugal. Watch it in virtual reality.

A new "Firefly: The Fall Guys" limited comic series is coming in September from Boom! Studios, returning the crew of the Serenity for more gun-slinging adventures in deep space.

The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft took this stunning sequence of images of its target planet Mercury during a gravity assist flyby designed to alter its speed.

The Man of Steel director is off to Rebel Moon for an adventure inspired by both Star Wars and Akira Kurosawa.

A gamma-ray burst spotted near the core of an ancient galaxy was likely created by an odd demolition-derby-style collision of two stars or stellar remnants, a new study suggests.

We put Sony's mid-range telephoto lens to the test in a number of shooting scenarios, including portraits, astro, wildlife and more.

'Strange New Worlds' Season 2 episode 2 offers a classic courtroom story brought up to date in a thoroughly enthralling episode that frankly hits it out of the park.

Tiny salt grains discovered in samples returned by the Hayabusa mission could indicate that the largest population of space rocks in the solar system is more watery than previously thought.

A new study has found an odd link between the magnitude of earthquakes and the intensity of cosmic radiation reaching our planet from space.

Two Russian cosmonauts will perform a roughly seven-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (June 22), and you can watch the action live.

New data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows that the atmosphere of a rocky exoplanet in the TRAPPIST-1 system is either nonexistent or incredibly thin.

After The Flash, one of DC Comics’ most overlooked characters is making his big-screen debut as well. Here’s everything we know about the Blue Beetle movie.

The new "Star Trek: Infinite" game is coming to PC this fall, offering players a massive strategy experience between four major galactic factions in the Trek universe.

An amazing new video demonstrates how Earth's tilt changes throughout the year, causing the day to lengthen and shorten from north to south as the planet orbits the sun.

NASA's X-ray observatory detected the echo of a flare likely caused when an object, perhaps a gas cloud or star, was ripped apart by our galaxy's black hole.

SpaceX will launch another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites early Thursday morning (June 22), and you can watch the action live.

SpaceX's seventh operational astronaut mission to the International Space Station now has a full crew manifest.

The sun unleashed a mighty eruption on Tuesday (June 20) that could spark a light show on Mars. Earth will miss out on the auroras this time, however.