Space News & Blog Articles

For 400 years sunspots have been used to measure the sun's cycle, but a newly suggested 'circle of fifths' system could predict dangerous and violent solar events years in advance.

A tiny robot known as MIRA will be blasting off to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2024 to perform simulated surgical procedures in microgravity.

The reason stars forming in very different regions of space come to have similar masses has puzzled astrophysicists for decades. Now, thanks to an advanced 3D stimulation, this mystery could be solved.

On Thursday Aug. 25 we will have an opportunity to catch sight of the two brightest objects in the night sky, Venus and the moon, engaged in a final morning dance.

Located 54 million light-years from Earth, the spiral galaxy NGC 4424 once consumed a smaller galaxy. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has spotted a supermassive black hole hidden in this cosmic meal.

A custom-built chamber for testing an upcoming NASA space telescope has arrived at Caltech in Pasadena to help ready the spacecraft for launch in 2025.

Protons can contain a charm quark, an elementary particle 1.5 times heavier than the proton itself.

Morpheus Space President István Lőrincz weighs in on the evolution of its satellite propulsion systems and the future.

'Love, Death + Robots' and 'Avenue 5' will return for new seasons.

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is richer in organic molecules than scientists thought, which could have implications for how life on Earth began.

For practically all of human existence, we've been fascinated by our closest celestial neighbor, incorporating it into myth, fantasy and scientific research.

China is building the world's largest array of telescopes dedicated to studying the sun with the aim of understanding coronal mass ejections which can cause chaos on and above Earth.

NASA's historic Artemis 1 mission will launch toward the moon one week from today (Aug. 22), if all goes according to plan.

On day six it was time for our first traverse away from the Haughton-Mars Project base on Devon Island in the Arctic.

NASA has just announced its free livestream coverage plans for the Artemis 1 launch

Hundreds of fragments of a rare transparent type of quartz called "rock crystal" were used to decorate Neolithic graves and other structures at a ceremonial site in the west of England, archaeologists say.

The new phase was made by firing lasers at 10 ytterbium ions inside a quantum computer.

For the first time, authorities have given a heat wave a name. Scientists hope that naming extreme heat events will help the public protect itself.

Exoplanet images might be contaminated by the light from their neighbors, a new study suggests, but scientists are learning how to remove the effects of these photobombers.

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a star-studded cluster in the constellation Sagittarius.

Hard science fiction author Eric Choi talks about the inspiration behind the stories in his new collection, "Just Like Being There", which draws from many real-life space stories.