Space News & Blog Articles

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket in the world, is getting ready to take flight for the first time in more than three years.

The James Webb Space Telescope's view of the famous "Pillars of Creation" reveals cosmic processes like never before. Here is what makes astronomers so excited.

A Russian Progress cargo ship ended its eight-month orbital stay with an intentional death dive into Earth's atmosphere on Sunday night (Oct. 23).

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size rocky world, or "super-Earth," that's hot enough to melt gold and, as a result, may have no atmosphere.

The color of the sun reveals a range of information about our star including the stages of its life and the nature of light and how it interacts with the atmosphere of Earth.

This telescope deal gives a saving of over $45 on a Celestron telescope that's perfectly suited for beginners.

A gold wristwatch created in celebration of the first moon landing that was presented to the first person to wear a similar model chronograph in space has sold for $1.9 million.

A fleet of space telescopes unexpectedly detected the record-breaking gamma-ray burst GRB221009A on Sunday, (Oct.9), making operators concerned about the odd signal.

The Landsat 8 satellite recently snapped a striking image of three closely situated lakes, each one a different color, in Ethiopia.

Smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid isn't NASA's usual approach to planetary science, but it was certainly an opportunity nonetheless.

Changes in Earth's atmosphere resulting from climate change are working against efforts to clean dangerous debris out of orbit around Earth.

On Tuesday, Oct. 25, the new moon will orbit between the sun and the Earth, causing a partial eclipse of the sun to take place.

The SkyMaster range of Celestron binoculars are some of the best on the market, but this deal ends on October 31.

The moon will pass in front of the sun in the last solar eclipse of the year on Tuesday (Oct. 25), but you may have to wake up early if you hope to watch it online.

Auroras set off spectacular light shows in the night sky, but they are also illuminating another reason the ozone layer is being eaten away.

Fractures in an Antarctic iceberg were likely caused by rapid changes in the currents that flow through the Southern Ocean.

Hubble revisits an old friend with a stunning new photo of the Terzan 1 globular cluster.

The realities of sexuality and intimacy in space are mostly omitted from discussions of human factors associated with working and living in space.

A manuscript attributed to Galileo Galilei found to be a forgery in August has led to the discovery that a different, controversial book was authored by the celebrated Italian astronomer.

Some interpretations of quantum mechanics propose that our entire universe is described by a single universal wave function that constantly splits and multiplies.

An Indian GSLV Mark III rocket launched 36 of OneWeb's broadband satellites today (Oct. 22), in the company's first launch since the Russian invasion of Ukraine shook up the spaceflight landscape.