Space News & Blog Articles

The stars of the Summer Triangle asterism — Vega, Deneb and Altair — will be well-placed throughout July, rising above the eastern horizon after dusk.

Fast radio bursts are blasts of energy that emerge from unknown sources millions to billions of light-years away that can be used to probe the characteristics of galaxies closer to home.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will fly for a record-tying 13th time on Thursday morning (July 7), and you can watch the action live.

Two sounding rockets are launching with experiments to assess the habitability of Alpha Centauri while also teaching us about how normal the sun is.

Space is filled with a variety of objects, some blisteringly hot, some tremendously cold, but areas with little to nothing at all never drop to absolute zero thanks to a fossil relic left over from its earliest moments.

The massive eruption from the underwater Tonga volcano earlier this year generated a blast so powerful, it sent the fastest pressure waves ever observed in our atmosphere rippling around the globe.

We may not have to wait too much longer for the first-ever orbital test flight of SpaceX's Starship deep-space transportation system.

Astrophysicists are puzzled by the discovery of a star whipping around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way in close proximity and faster than any star previously found.

NASA's tiny CAPSTONE moon probe is back in touch with its handlers, ending a short but spooky silent period.

A space rock at least the size of a bus will safely whiz by our planet today, and you can watch the event on a free livestream.

An early-stage Martian sailplane soared aloft, tethered to a balloon, as engineers ponder the possibilities to expand Red Planet flight.

When a tiny space rock hit the asteroid Bennu, it caused a landslide across the space rock and a massive crater.

Earth's magnetic field originates in the outer core and extends out into the magnetosphere — a region of space that helps protect Earth from space weather.

Operators lost contact with the moon-bound CAPSTONE satellite yesterday (July 5) after initially completing a set of tasks following its separation from the rocket upper stage.

This impressive 'push to' light bucket with smartphone app alignment is an easy way to explore both deep-sky and solar system targets.

The palm-sized Autel EVO Nano+ offers advanced features while keeping its weight below 250g.

The 10-foot-tall (3 meters) Mars Ascent Vehicle will blast rock, sediment and atmospheric samples off Mars in the early 2030s, in the first-ever rocket launch from the surface of another planet.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back with more powerful collisions than ever before and scientists are thrilled to see what they can learn.

Russia's federal space agency recently shared images of its cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station brandishing the flags of two Russian-backed separatist territories in eastern Ukraine.

The messy system of Beta Pictoris will come under scrutiny to learn how similar it is to our solar system.

It's gripping, it's gritty and this episode pulls no punches in the show's most daring installment yet.