Space News & Blog Articles

The Federal Aviation Administration has granted a license for the second-ever liftoff of SpaceX's huge Starship vehicle, which could now occur as early as Friday (Nov. 17).

SpaceX's Starship will make its second attempt to reach space on Nov. 17, and you can watch the launch live here.

A sunspot has put on a stunning display of radio waves lasting for over a week that resembles the northern and southern lights —  auroral displays that occur over Earth.

NASA has simulated the environmental effects of landing on the lunar surface as the space agency prepares to send astronauts back to the moon on its upcoming Artemis missions.

Supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* is spinning nearly as fast as it can, dragging the very fabric of space-time with it and shaping the heart of the Milky Way.

We have rounded up some of the best aurora webcam views so you can enjoy the wonder of the northern lights from the comfort of your own home.

Fresh James Webb Space Telescope observations of exoplanet WASP-107b revealed sandy clouds high in its atmosphere.

A distant stellar corpse is coming back to life, exhibiting repeated explosive flares and representing a new type of "cosmic cataclysm."

Watch this epic new trailer for Netflix's animated space opera "Masters of the Universe: Revolution" coming in January 2024.

More than two dozen companies are backing a United Nations-led effort to end destructive anti-satellite tests, which add yet more debris to Earth orbit.

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The European Space Agency is slated to launch a satellite in 2030 that's meant to probe the nature of dark matter.

Using ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, scientists have observed nightglow in Mars' atmosphere, a phenomenon where the night sky glows green, almost like an aurora.

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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new view of a distant spiral galaxy whose star-studded arms are all tangled up.

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The world's first satellite capable of detecting industrial sources of carbon emissions from space has just reached orbit  —  and it promises to be a game-changer.

NASA has stopped sending commands to its Mars missions for two weeks, but that doesn't mean the robotic explorers are taking a vacation.

Rocket Lab will launch a drone on its suborbital launch vehicle as part of a U.S. Defense Department hypersonic development project.

While the term “planet” has a clear definition, there is no strict definition of a moon. We can either say that there is one moon around Earth, or more than 160 million moons.

Science data from a damaged balloon-borne telescope was salvaged, thanks to old-fashioned SD drives.