Space News & Blog Articles

China is paying close attention to what NASA will and will not be able to afford in the coming years, as the space agency's budget gets chopped up by U.S. lawmakers.

Asteroids are left over from the early solar system. Here's how they get destroyed.

This Lego Star Wars diorama certainly isn't trash.

A fireball streaked across the skies above the southeastern United States in the early hours of Wednesday (Aug. 2) and was captured on film.

An experiment sent to the International Space Station aims to help scientists develop AC for astronauts who may travel to remote areas of our solar system, and perhaps one day, beyond.

An excerpt from Variety's new interview with "Star Trek" royalty Jonathan Frakes on directing the "Strange New Worlds"/"Lower Decks" crossover episode.

Swapna Krishna, author of the new book "Stargazing: Contemplating the Cosmos to Find Inner Peace," writes a guide to getting the most out of the night sky wherever you are.

The Cygnus cargo spacecraft SS Laurel Clark will dock at the International Space Station on Friday, Aug. 4, after a two-day flight. Watch it live here courtesy of NASA TV.

By modeling meteorite collisions, scientists from Yale University may have finally solved the puzzle of why some space rocks have unexpected magnetic fields.

Get a huge saving on a quality telescope this Summer as the Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 80AZ is now over $115 off and it's ideal for beginners.

Legendary guitarist Brian May talks to Space.com about his collaboration with NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission and a new book about asteroid Bennu written with the mission's science lead Dante Lauretta.

A distant cosmic object that has puzzled astronomers since 2005 has turned out to be the remains of a dying star that lost its outer layers in a massive supernova explosion.

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the Ring Nebula in vibrant color, presenting one of the most well-known objects in astronomy as it has never been seen before.

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season 2, episode 8 serves up a plot twist that is up there with legends like "The Sixth Sense."

How long could a person survive if thrust into the harsh vacuum of outer space? The short answer is, not very long.

Physicist Stephen Hawking's clarion call to help Earth is now coming to kids in an illustrated book. Daughter Lucy Hawking collaborated on the project, too.

Step 337 in assembling Lego's NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Technic model is to you install your name — assuming you were one of the nearly 11 million people who signed up to fly on the real rover.

In 2021, a coronal mass ejection that erupted from the sun was seen across a staggering range of 155 million miles. It spit energetic particles toward Mars, the Earth and the moon.

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft had a communication breakdown with Earth, but it's still broadcasting signals to the agency's Deep Space Network antenna group.

The Perseid meteor shower, one of the most dependable annual showers, peaks on Aug. 12 and 13, and this year looks great for meteor watchers in North America.

Thanks to a phenomenon predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, scientists have learned important new information about an incredibly massive galaxy cluster nearly 10 billion light-years from Earth.