Space News & Blog Articles

A type of crystal that breaks the rules of ordinary crystallography has been found in a tube of melted sand from Nebraska.

250 million-year-old pollen suggests radiation played a role in mass extinction event.

Marvel Comics is releasing a new "Groot" solo series this spring that reveals the origin story of the tree-like Guardians of the Galaxy team member.

As comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) nears the sun, get the best sights and images of this celestial encounter with our handy guide.

Venus and Saturn will be in conjunction on Sunday (Jan. 22), appearing close enough together in the sky to both be seen through a telescope. The close pairing will also be visible to the naked-eye.

Neutron-star mergers could create hypermassive neutron stars that are the fastest spinning stars in the universe.

Galaxies in the early universe were much more varied and mature than previously thought, according to observations made by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

When solar winds bombard Earth's magnetosphere, they create waves that shouldn't be able to traverse a turbulent region called the shock. New research demonstrates how this appears to happen.

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launched on its fifth-ever mission on Sunday (Jan. 15), sending multiple satellites aloft for the U.S. Space Force.

A new search for alien signals focuses on planetary transits, when exoplanets pass right in front of their suns.

A new time-lapse image shows two major sunspot groups moving across the surface of the sun in December 2022, when the number of solar splotches also skyrocketed to an eight-year high.

The accelerator at FRIB started working at low power, but when it finishes ramping up to full strength, it will be the most powerful heavy-ion accelerator on Earth.

New time-lapse images of the beautiful Butterfly Nebula come closer to explaining its spectacular strangeness.

You can help NASA discover new planets using your personal telescope or even just your smartphone.

"Star Wars: The Bad Batch" Season 2 hits Disney+ with a new year of galactic mayhem.

With the James Webb Space Telescope safely at work, a leading scientist offers glimpses of what could come next.

When Miss USA R'Bonney Gabriel took the stage in the Miss Universe 2023 National Costume Show this week, she wore the moon, literally.

The face of the moon will be half-illuminated once again on Saturday (Jan. 14) as the moon enters its last quarter phase heading to the next new moon and the start of the next lunar cycle.

SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will be back in action on Saturday (Jan. 14), and you can watch the liftoff live.

Stratolaunch's giant Roc airplane carried a prototype of the company's planned Talon hypersonic vehicle aloft for the second time on Friday (Jan. 13).

2022 was among Earth's 10 warmest years on record despite cooling La Niña conditions, and rising greenhouse gas concentrations hint that the worst is yet to come.