Space News & Blog Articles

It wasn't quite a five-year mission, but we've finally built the Playmobil USS Enterprise and it's everything we wanted and more.

Samantha Cristoforetti also plans to follow a 20-minute routine in microgravity in the near future.

NASA's InSight mission is working to squeeze out all the science it can as power runs out.

Look up! Venus will pass the Pleiades in the predawn sky on Thursday. The encounter will be visible with a pair of binoculars.

Here are the best night vision binoculars, monoculars and goggles you can use in the dark.

The world's lightest DSLR is packed full of features and is the perfect beginner camera.

A European rocket will launch two communications satellites to orbit Wednesday evening (June 22), and you can watch the action live.

Alien life in the deep global ocean of a water world could receive its nutrients through a shell of high-pressure ice around the planet's core.

Four retired telescope missions are helping astronomers uncover new insights about how dust behaves in galaxies.

A fully homegrown South Korean rocket has put satellites into orbit for the first time ever.

People around the world celebrated the summer solstice today (June 21), as did some satellites in space.

Propstore is auctioning off a screen-matched 'Red Leader' X-wing model from 1977’s "Star Wars."

China plans to haul pristine Mars samples to Earth in 2031, two years earlier than NASA and the European Space Agency plan to do so, according to media reports.

SpaceX and OneWeb have written a joint letter to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission declaring harmony in orbit for spectrum coordination between their satellite-internet constellations.

The moon approaches Mars in the predawn sky on Wednesday (June 22). The pair will be visible in the same field of view using a pair of binoculars.

The 4-meter-wide International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) at Devasthal Observatory in the central Himalayas comes online.

The Nikon 10x50 Aculon A211 binoculars are sleek, well made and offer great value optics in a wide field of view.

While astronomical facilities and instrumentation may still be intact, it's too unsafe to verify in person right now.

The James Webb Space Telescope is ready to start probing the cosmos. An astronomer on the team explains what it takes to get to this stage.

Old Ben’s penultimate outing isn’t perfect, but it sets the stage for a high-stakes season finale and delivers a couple of moments fans have been clamoring to see.

A piece of Russian space junk forced the International Space Station to steer clear to avoid a chance encounter with orbital debris on Thursday (June 16).