Space News & Blog Articles

New research suggests that a strange 'ripple' is causing the Milky Way's stars to vibrate out of step, and an ancient collision with Sagittarius may be to blame.

More than four years after DART's collision with the asteroid Dimorphos, Europe's Hera mission will help validate the space rock deflection experiment.

Milky Way research has advanced significantly in recent years, from imaging a supermassive black hole at its heart to meticulously charting star movements, we are learning more about our galactic home than ever before.

Planet Venus will have a flurry of spacecraft visit it in the next few years as scientists seek to learn more about the volcanic, lava-filled planet.

Expedition 67 cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov will come back to Earth on Thursday (Sept. 29), and you can watch the undocking and landing live.

Hurricane Ian made landfall on the Gulf Coast of Florida as a dangerous Category 4 storm, which NASA watched live from orbit as it reached the U.S. mainland.

A tiny cubesat operated by the San Francisco company Planet spotted methane gas bubbling up from a breached pipeline in the Baltic Sea.

Lunar glass reveals that large meteorite strikes on Earth, like the impact that killed the dinosaurs, were not isolated events.

A candy brand is helping children imagine their future in space with the help of aspiring astronaut. Kinder Joy, the sweet treat with a toy, worked with Alyssa Carson to launch its space collection.

A Russian cosmonaut made a hopeful reference to the end of war while handing command of the ISS to Samantha Cristoforetti, the first European woman in charge of the orbiting lab.

Hurricane Ian has grown into an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm above the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Florida landfall.

Wicked Brick offers stunning bespoke display cases and stands for Lego kits, but they’re not cheap.

A number of emerging European commercial rocket companies are vying to reach orbit first, with debut launches expected in the second half of 2023.

In total, five space and Star Wars Lego sets are due to retire soon so you'll have to act soon to grab them while they're here.

Astronomers have discovered the chemical traces of the universe's earliest stars that died in super-supernova explosions.

NASA astronaut Nicole Mann will head to the space station aboard SpaceX's Crew-5 mission for NASA, which is slated to lift off on Oct. 4.

Since 2014, SOFIA has been cruising through the night skies around the world, looking at the cosmos, but that mission ends this week.

The repeating blasts of a fast radio burst from a galaxy like our own is challenging a proposed explanation for these fleeting but energetic bursts of radio waves.

The maker of the Moonwatch is ready to keep time on Mars. Omega has announced the Speedmaster X-33 Marstimer, a new timepiece that can keep track of time and time zones on Earth and the Red Planet.

Hurricane Ian has pushed the launch of SpaceX's next astronaut mission for NASA back by at least a day.