Space News & Blog Articles

The moon will make a close approach to Mars in the evening on Friday, Aug. 18 as the two celestial bodies enjoy the sunset together.

The way in which supermassive black holes grew to tremendous sizes in the early universe has been a mystery for astronomers, but the puzzle could soon be solved.

Thanks to the sun's 11-year-long cycle, Neptune might be systematically purged of its clouds.

The Landsat 8 satellite captured the deadly flames that burned through the town of Lahaina in Hawaii and killed at least 99 people.

An exclusive first peek at Boom! Studios' new sci-fi limited series, 'The Space Between.'

Satellite images reveal the scope of devastating wildfires in the Canadian northwest where an entire capital city had to be evacuated due to approaching flames.

Luna-25, Russia's first moon mission since 1976, has snapped its first detailed photo of the lunar surface.

The universe's age when Maisie's galaxy was seen by the James Webb Space Telescope has been confirmed, proving that this realm is one of the earliest galaxies ever observed.

A newly discovered, highly magnetic and massive helium star could explain how magnetars, stellar corpses with the universe's strongest magnetic fields, are born.

SpaceX plans to launch 21 of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Friday (Aug. 18), and you can watch the liftoff live.

The 50th woman to fly into space, Karen Nyberg has paid tribute to the first woman and first American woman to do so with a pair of original works celebrating the first 60 years of women in space.

India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander is a step closer to landing on the moon after separating Aug. 17 from the propulsion module that carried the mission to lunar orbit.

Gaze at some of our best 2023 Perseid meteor shower photo submissions from across the world.

A new 'Ahsoka' featurette goes behind the scenes to delve into the connection between Jedi masters and their apprentices in the "Star Wars" universe.

The foundations of Michigan State University's first astronomy building recently came to light, showing a long history of telescope work in the Wolverine State.

Finding supermassive black holes with masses billions of times greater than the sun under a billion years after the Big Bang has scientists confused how these cosmic titans got so big so quickly.

Scientists have discovered the origin of a rare iron meteorite that fell to Earth in 2020. It's the first iron meteorite from a parent body with a known orbit.

The astronauts on SpaceX's Crew-7 mission emphasized how well the International Space Station partnership is thriving, as new space alliances begin to take shape.

Not only is the devastation being thoroughly documented around the world, but it's also being recorded from space.

The U.S. Air Force has announced the winners of its first-of-its-kind satellite hacking competition, which saw teams attempt to take control of a cubesat in orbit.

An observing campaign involving New Horizons, the Hubble Space Telescope and perhaps even you is designed to better understand how heat flows through the atmospheres of two ice giants.