Space News & Blog Articles

A new agreement between multiple U.S. government agencies aims to improve space weather forecasts and the government's ability to mitigate the effects of solar storms on critical infrastructure.

NASA's Perseverance rover has been exploring Mars' Jezero Crater for nearly three years, but it will soon move on to investigate a vastly different environment.

A first-of-its-kind mineral map delivered by the NASA International Space Station mission, EMIT, will present big-picture climate science and "open some eyes."

Internal heating may be able to keep water in liquid form within these exoplanets.

A new black market kingpin, an unlikely vocation shift for Ed Baldwin, and the long-awaited reunion of two estranged colleagues.

NASA's Cassini mission, which ended six years ago, spotted a key ingredient needed for life as we know it on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, a new study reports.

The Geminid meteor shower, one of the best of the year, put on a brilliant show Dec. 13 amid a near-moonless sky. More shooting stars are expected tonight.

SpaceX plans to launch 21 more of its Starlink internet satellites, including the first six 'direct to cell' craft, early Friday morning (Dec. 15), and you can watch the action live.

Tonight (Dec. 14), Rocket Lab plans to launch its first mission since a failure this past September, and you can watch the action live.

Scientists are building a 'beyond state-of-the-art' digital model of near-Earth space to improve forecasting of solar storms and their effects on infrastructure.

The two small moons of Mars, Phobos (about 22km in diameter) and Deimos (about 13km in diameter), have been puzzling scientists for decades, with their origin remaining a matter of debate.

Black holes are some of the most powerful objects in the universe — and humans could devise ways to harness that power as an energy source, a new theoretical study claims.

Humpback whale "conversations" provide valuable insight on how humans may one day communicate with life beyond Earth.

China launched its secretive reusable space plane into orbit for its third mission on Dec. 14, just one day after the U.S. Space Force took its own X-37B space plane off the launch pad.

The Federal Aviation Administration should evaluate and improve the way it investigates space launch mishaps, according to a new report.

Hot Jupiters are gas giants so close to their star that the star's heat and radiation can blow the planets' atmosphere away.

A recent study suggests the aurora-like STEVE and "picket fence" phenomena are generated by low-altitude electric fields parallel to Earth's magnetic field.

The sun unleashed an X2.8 solar flare today (Dec. 14), its most powerful such eruption since September 2017.

NASA's MAVEN orbiter has collected data of the unexpected dynamics on Mars, showing how extreme solar events influence the planet's atmosphere, an insight valuable to understanding its evolution.

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