Space News & Blog Articles

Japan's Himawari-8 weather satellite serendipitously captured the dramatic changes in brightness of Orion's red supergiant star in 2019-2020.

The way each planet's atmosphere responds to methane might be responsible for the different hues of Uranus and Neptune.

A geologist explains what the "doorway" on Mars really is and why it's so tempting to see recognizable shapes on other worlds.

One day you’re a Jedi Knight, the next you’re harvesting meat in the middle of the desert and living in a cave with your hairless camel…

You don’t have to be an inquisitor to hunt down all of ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’s’ Easter eggs and Star Wars references, but it helps…

Here are four big scientific questions about the Milky Way that astronomers hope to solve with the upcoming data dump from the European Gaia galaxy-charting mission.

A peculiar pair of galaxies swirls together in a mesmerizing new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The spiral arms of NGC 3631 are bursting with star-forming regions captured in a stunning Hubble Space Telescope image.

Stratolaunch's Talon-A test vehicle will eventually drop from the biggest airplane ever built, known as the Roc.

Investigating these co-orbiting worlds in our own solar system may help us predict prevalence in extrasolar systems.

Low Earth orbit is the lowest altitude a satellite can travel around our planet.

Reports are coming in from observers who caught a few early shooting stars.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the otherworldly image of IC 564 when it looked at this region to learn more about 'clumpy' star formation.

Officials promise geology 'from 50 light-years away,' as they train the James Webb Space Telescope's high-precision spectrographs on two exoplanets.

If you're hoping to see the potential tau Herculids meteor shower, NASA advises you to check the weather and be ready for the unexpected.

These finds could shed light on how supermassive black holes form in galaxies like our Milky Way.

Setting up any kind of off-Earth mining industry will be no small feat. Let's look at what we're up against.

The test was designed to study how gas behaves in microgravity, and the results may lead to future experiments with the fifth state of matter, Bose-Einstein condensates.

A potential meteor shower may emerge from Hercules tonight (May 31-31). Keep your eyes peeled and your fingers crossed.

Astronomers have spotted the first evidence of a merger event that gave a black hole a kick that left it traveling at around 3 million mph — fast enough for it to escape its host galaxy.

It sounds like the premise of a bad sci-fi movie: There's some mysterious entity, beyond the boundaries of our galaxy, that is pushing against us with incredible force.