Space News & Blog Articles

Physicists like me don't fully understand what makes up "dark matter." Deep beneath South Dakota, we're trying to change that.

In the wake of Hawaii's tragic wildfires, NASA experts discuss our planet's critically rising temperatures.

The Blue Moon of August 2023 rises on Aug. 30, offering skywatchers a second chance to catch a supermoon alongside Saturn in the night sky.

How humanity responds to the first contact with intelligent alien life could determine the very fate of our species. Here's what we can learn from history.

The finale of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season 2 feels like a lazy lurch over the finishing line after an intriguing, if mixed order, season.

Who let the dog out? Watch as celebrities hunt down a missing robot dog on a simulated Red Planet in Fox's reality competition series "Stars on Mars."

Luna-25, Russia's first moon lander since 1976, beamed back images of Earth and the moon on Aug. 13 while heading toward lunar orbit.

A century-old mystery of how galaxies shift shapes has been solved by considering "survival of the fittest" collisions between cosmic titans also revealing the Milky Way was not always a spiral.

A professional-looking, quick-to-charge power bank that's also carry-on compliant. Quickly charge three devices at once.

Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen's upcoming 'Huginn' mission to the International Space Station has gotten the stamp of approval from the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

A solar eclipse map is a helpful tool for anyone wanting to get the most out of their solar eclipse viewing experience. We explore how to read and understand them here.

Explore some of the best Perseid meteor shower 2023 photos from around the world. The prolific shower did not disappoint.

Four astronauts are flying to the International Space Station on Aug. 25 from NASA, Japan, Europe and Russia. Here's some info about this new crew.

Knowing that black holes tend to have these masses could help provide a new way of measuring the expansion rate of the universe.

China is making lunar material collected by its Chang'e 5 moon mission available to research proposals by international scientists for the first time.

A new type of chemistry performed at very cold temperatures on very small particles enables quick, precise reactions.

A Bronze Age arrowhead found in Switzerland was made using meteoric iron.

Black holes seem to get all the attention. But what about their mirror twins, white holes? Do they exist? And, if so, where are they?

Whether you're a frequent jet-setter or a couch potato, you travel much more than you think, thanks the motion of the Earth, sun, Milky Way galaxy and more.

In a new study, scientists reveal new evidence for the largest asteroid impact structure on Earth buried Australia in southern New South Wales.

The transparent, chargeless quasiparticle could shed more light on the underlying mechanics of superconductivity