Space News & Blog Articles

NASA is flying the agency's high-altitude ER-2 aircraft over the American Southwest in order to map deposits of minerals that are critical for electronics manufacturing.

ESA's TRISAT-R satellite has a camera that's only about the size of a coin, yet it managed to capture a view of our entire world.

Rocket Lab has identified an unwanted 'electrical arc' as the likely cause of its September launch failure, though the company's investigation continues.

NASA wants to figure out how future moon-dwellers can produce, capture and store breathable oxygen from lunar soil.

EIRSAT-1, a student-led gamma-ray astronomy cubesat, is due to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the end of November.

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Astronomers have found the most distant Milky Way look-alike we've seen the universe, challenging theoretical predictions of galaxy evolution.

SpaceX will launch its next robotic cargo mission to the International Space Station on Thursday night (Nov. 9), and you can watch the action live.

Water vapor observed sublimating from tiny chunks of rock within planet-forming disks is a sign that a process called "pebble accretion" kickstarts the birth of new worlds.

Astronomers using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have identified eight new super-Earths that orbit close to their host stars.

Researchers searching for evidence of extraterrestrial life are investigating the geological faults of Saturn’s largest icy moon, Titan, and Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede.

Astronomers developed a sophisticated computer simulation to explore whether or not strange star Betelgeuse may be the result of a merger between two smaller stars.

India's newly launched Aditya-L1 sun-studying mission has already captured its first glimpse of a solar flare in high-energy X-rays.

The Orion for Artemis 2, humanity's first lunar mission in 50 years, powered on successfully on Nov. 6. It will carry four astronauts around the moon no earlier than 2024.

Hulu just approved two more seasons of 'Futurama,' taking the beloved animated series through season 14.

Inside the Tiangong space station's Mengtian experiment module, there's a small, dextrous arm that can assist astronauts' everyday activities, Chinese broadcaster CCTV revealed.

IDW hosted a 'Star Trek' comics panel at NYCC 2023, where the publisher revealed a 'Lower Decks' choose-your-own adventure graphic novel, as well as the 'Sons of Star Trek' sequel series.

The Aukyo astronaut star projector — viral on TikTok — is currently 15% off on Amazon ahead of Black Friday.

Space is a dangerous place, especially when it comes to high-energy particles, and intense solar activity can pose threats to people and technology on Earth.

Scientists have predicted for a long time that elements with around 164 protons could have a relatively long half-life, or even be stable.

As NASA's Curiosity rover passes 4,000 'sols,' or Martian days, on the Red Planet, a Space.com reporter who began work in 2012 reflects on what that means.