Space News & Blog Articles

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample-return mission will return pieces of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. Follow the historic landing live here.

The challenges of settling Mars stretch beyond the boundaries of rocket technology, impacting our biology and fundamentally questioning our identity as a species.

NASA is exploring the capabilities of several next-gen humanoid robots that it hopes will one day assist astronauts in orbit and mine the moon for minerals.

The Parker Solar Probe and the Solar Orbiter may have finally solved a solar puzzle that has troubled scientists for decades.

An old space shuttle engine that once visited the Hubble Space Telescope was just mounted on the Space Launch System rocket that will launch the Artemis 2 moon mission next year.

There's a slight chance Comet Nishimura might brighten unexpectedly. Astronomer Jonti Horner explains what to expect.

2023 summer was Earth's hottest since global record-keeping of temperatures began in 1880, NASA announced Thursday (Sept. 14).

SpaceX fired one of its Raptor engines last month to test its ability to land the company's Starship vehicle on the moon in cold conditions, which it will have to do on the Artemis 3 mission.

Germany signed the Artemis Accords on Thursday (Sept. 14), becoming the 29th country to join NASA's framework for peaceful moon exploration.

The Kennedy Space Center post office has been cancelled. The contract facility will close permanently this month, after which there will be no more "Kennedy Space Center" postmarks.

The Royal Observatory of Greenwich's annual contest draws more than 4,000 submissions, and the winning images from this year's categories are stunning.

Satellites observe Hurricane Lee swirl above the Atlantic Ocean as it makes its way toward the Canadian coast for a Saturday landfall.

Water may be generated on the moon as the result of high-energy electrons bombarding the lunar surface as it passes through Earth’s magnetic tail.

NASA has named a new director of UFO research who will oversee the agency's studies into UAP, or unidentified anomalous phenomena.

Uranus and Neptune, the two outermost planets of the solar system, make for excellent viewing throughout the end of September. Here's how to locate and view them.

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying two cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut arrived at the International Space Station today (Sept. 15), roughly three hours after lifting off.

Firefly Aerospace launched the Victus Nox mission for the U.S. Space Force on Thursday night (Sept. 14), just 27 hours after receiving the liftoff order.

Michael Peña stars as migrant worker turned NASA astronaut José Hernández in 'A Million Miles Away,' now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Researchers have shown that if the James Webb Space Telescope was pointed at Earth from a distant star, it could detect the signatures of intelligent life in our planet's atmosphere.

The Hubble Space Telescope photographed a mesmerizing new photo of the lenticular galaxy NGC 3156, whose older stars emanate a hazy glow.

Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub have left Earth to spend a year aboard the International Space Station, flying on Russia's Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft with Loral O'Hara, who will return after six months.