Space News & Blog Articles

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.

The Curiosity Mars rover recently aced its toughest Red Planet climb yet: a sharp 23-degree slope covered slippery sand and wheel-size rocks.

SpaceX has submitted to the FAA its final report about the debut launch of its Starship vehicle, which ended with a bang four minutes after liftoff.

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.

The first Artemis mission to make use of NASA's moon-orbiting Gateway will be Artemis 4 in 2028, agency officials confirmed this month.

India is gearing up for its first-ever mission to study the sun, Aditya-L1, which is expected to launch in early September.

Luna-25, Russia's first moon mission in nearly half a century, has reached lunar orbit, the nation's space agency Roscosmos reported today (Aug. 16).

The United States Space Force has activated its first and only unit dedicated to targeting other nations' satellites and the ground stations that support them.

Europe's most active volcano, Italy's Mount Etna, erupted on Sunday (Aug. 13) after weeks of puffing out odd smoke rings. Here is how it looked from space.

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured a stunning time-lapse video of solar flares dancing across the sun from the Dark Sky Alqueva site in Portugal.

While there are hints that dark energy may be 'phantom,' its true nature remains frustratingly elusive, a new study reports.

NASA brought a small group of reporters to its Kennedy Space Center to see three spacecraft, including the Orion for Artemis 2. A Canadian reporter was there to see it.

SpaceX plans to launch two Starlink missions less than seven hours apart late Wednesday (Aug. 16) and early Thursday (Aug. 17), and you can watch them live.

NASA is emphasizing a seamless transition to future private space stations in low-Earth orbit, but officials say the shift will not be easy.

Astronomers have discovered a failed star that can't sustain nuclear fusion in its core, but is 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the sun.

Intuitive Machines is targeting a mid-November launch for what could be the first private commercial venture to safely reach the moon's surface.

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a distant galaxy cloaked in a ghostly haze some 44 million light-years from Earth in the Pavo, or "peacock" constellation.

Interstellar Technologies Inc. says it is now aiming to launch its Zero Rocket in 2025, with static fire tests due later this year as part of its test program.

A recently released video gives us an astronaut's-eye view of Virgin Galactic's second-ever commercial spaceflight, which the company aced last week.

"It's why we never throw anything away – you don't know what secrets are being stored in the data beamed down from space."