Space News & Blog Articles

While people around Earth enjoy a cold drink of St. Patrick's Day, the Parker Solar Probe will make another close approach to the sun, braving scorching hot temperatures to help solve solar mysteries.

Chinese launch company Space Pioneer is all set for its first attempt to reach orbit with the country's first liquid-fueled rocket.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently imaged the moon's Malapert Massif, a potential touchdown locale for NASA's Artemis 3 astronaut mission.

NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace to land payloads on the moon and send another into orbit to provide communications with the lunar far side.

SpaceX plans to launch two Falcon 9 rockets less than five hours apart on Friday (March 17), and you can watch the back-to-back action live.

The USPS dropped news of a surprise space stamp, revealing it plans to mark the upcoming plunge to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx capsule carrying the largest sample ever collected from an asteroid.

Remnants of a modern glacier have been found near Mars' equator, suggesting ice may still exist at shallow depths in the area, which could have significant implications for future human exploration.

When the first Canadian to launch to the moon lifts off with NASA's next Artemis mission, he or she will do so wearing a new symbol of Canada's efforts in space: the Canadian Space Agency's new logo.

The near-Earth asteroid 2023 EY will pass within 149,000 miles (239,800 kilometers) of Earth tonight (March 16), and you can watch it live thanks to a free telescope livestream.

University of Arizona students' inflatable "beach ball" antenna prototype could change the way small satellites send data back to Earth.

A new NASA report evaluates the costs and benefits of various space debris removal efforts for the estimated 100 trillion bits of space junk in orbit.

Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space, voices a fictional app in a new episode of 'Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur' that runs March 18, during Women's History Month.

Launch company Virgin Orbit has temporarily halted operations and furloughed most of its employees as it looks for funding, according to media reports.

An asteroid that was initially given 1-in-600 chance of wiping out an entire city on Valentine's Day 2046 is now expected to almost definitely whizz past us without incident.

The vast, swirling ocean within Jupiter's moon Europa may be affecting the rotation of its icy crust, scientists say.

SpaceX delivered a fresh round of science payloads to the International Space Station that will explore topics such as how to minimize microbial contamination inside spacecraft.

Who's going to get wheeled out next week for their official Federation farewell? Keiko O'Brien perhaps, or how about Lt. Reginald Barclay?

Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen, and more Spider-People than we can count are coming back this year in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Here’s the full rundown.

The constellation of Orion the Hunter becomes 'Orion the hunted' during mid-March as its bright stars light up the southern night sky and make a tantalizing target for skywatchers.

You'll do well to discover a telescope this good at this price again, the Celestron Travelscope 60 is now just $38, saving over $60.

NASA's New Horizons probe flew by Pluto nearly eight years ago, but the epic encounter is still bearing scientific fruit.