Space News & Blog Articles

The frequency at which a star is being shredded by a black hole in a nearby galaxy offers clues into the poorly understood field of partial tidal disruption events.

A suspected test launch of a new hypersonic missile system from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station was cancelled on Wednesday (Sept. 6).

The Celestron EclipSmart Travel Solar Scope 50 telescope is an affordable way to view solar eclipses and the sun’s surface.

Cosmology, the first skincare product designed with space travel in mind, will find its way to the International Space Station next year.

Gravitationally lensed light from a distant quasar, powered by a supermassive black hole, could help constrain the properties of dark matter.

A stunning bright-green fireball was captured by a phone camera in a playground in Turkey.

A prototype of a NASA moon rover, called VIPER, slithered down a ramp at an agency lab. The lunar mission will hunt for water ice, which is crucial in helping astronauts during their landing missions set to begin in the mid-2020s or so.

The United States Space and Air Forces launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile 4,200 miles (6,760 km) on Sept. 6 from Vandenberg Space Force in California.

Japan sent two ambitious missions soaring into the heavens today (Sept. 6) — a pioneering moon lander and a powerful X-ray space telescope.

Forecasters are keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Lee, which they predict could soon become a full-blown hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.

NASA's Psyche mission is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Oct. 5 and begin heading toward its metal-asteroid namesake.

An immense bubble of galaxies, one billion light years wide and located 820 million light-years away, could be fossilized remains of the Big Bang.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter flew for the 57th time on Sept. 3, a sortie that pushed the robot's total Red Planet air time over 100 minutes.

Paramount+ released a new "Star Trek: Lower Decks" Season 4 trailer and official poster ahead of the season premiere on Thursday (Sept. 7).

A distant galaxy sits isolated in a new photo from the powerful observatory.

The European Solar Orbiter spacecraft has peered into yet unexplored parts of the sun's atmosphere thanks to a simple hack to its main camera.

Tiny devices on satellites could soon track small pieces of space debris that are invisible to existing space junk monitoring systems but capable of destroying spacecraft if they collide with it.

ESA's wind-measuring Aeolus satellite was spotted before its flaming demise over Antarctica.

A hypothetical Kuiper Belt Planet in the far reaches of our solar system could help explain the peculiar orbits of many trans-Neptunian objects.

Caroline Herschel, the first English professional female astronomer, made contributions to astronomy that are still important to the field today.

The magnetic field is a thousand times weaker than Earth’s, but is spread out across 16,000 light years.