Space News & Blog Articles

The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft took this stunning sequence of images of its target planet Mercury during a gravity assist flyby designed to alter its speed.

The Man of Steel director is off to Rebel Moon for an adventure inspired by both Star Wars and Akira Kurosawa.

A gamma-ray burst spotted near the core of an ancient galaxy was likely created by an odd demolition-derby-style collision of two stars or stellar remnants, a new study suggests.

We put Sony's mid-range telephoto lens to the test in a number of shooting scenarios, including portraits, astro, wildlife and more.

'Strange New Worlds' Season 2 episode 2 offers a classic courtroom story brought up to date in a thoroughly enthralling episode that frankly hits it out of the park.

Tiny salt grains discovered in samples returned by the Hayabusa mission could indicate that the largest population of space rocks in the solar system is more watery than previously thought.

A new study has found an odd link between the magnitude of earthquakes and the intensity of cosmic radiation reaching our planet from space.

Two Russian cosmonauts will perform a roughly seven-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (June 22), and you can watch the action live.

New data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows that the atmosphere of a rocky exoplanet in the TRAPPIST-1 system is either nonexistent or incredibly thin.

After The Flash, one of DC Comics’ most overlooked characters is making his big-screen debut as well. Here’s everything we know about the Blue Beetle movie.

The new "Star Trek: Infinite" game is coming to PC this fall, offering players a massive strategy experience between four major galactic factions in the Trek universe.

An amazing new video demonstrates how Earth's tilt changes throughout the year, causing the day to lengthen and shorten from north to south as the planet orbits the sun.

NASA's X-ray observatory detected the echo of a flare likely caused when an object, perhaps a gas cloud or star, was ripped apart by our galaxy's black hole.

SpaceX will launch another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites early Thursday morning (June 22), and you can watch the action live.

SpaceX's seventh operational astronaut mission to the International Space Station now has a full crew manifest.

The sun unleashed a mighty eruption on Tuesday (June 20) that could spark a light show on Mars. Earth will miss out on the auroras this time, however.

Why didn't the universe collapse into a black hole during the earliest moments of the Big Bang? Simply put, because that's not how you make a black hole.

Ideally suited to astrophotographers, the Canon EOS R8 is a full-frame, reasonably priced mirrorless that performs well when shooting the stars.

The extent of sea ice surrounding Antarctica has fallen to a historic minimum this year, triggering concerns that the pristine polar continent might be reaching a climate change tipping point.

With its planetarium feature, telescope control and slick design, SkySafari 7 Pro is the best all-round app for astronomers and astrophotographers.

New research looking at the cosmological constant problem suggests the expansion of the universe could be an illusion.