Space News & Blog Articles

A new video shows the crater-riddled surface of the solar system's smallest planet Mercury as captured during a super close flyby of the BepiColombo spacecraft.

The full moon of July also called the "Buck Moon" or "Thunder Moon," will occur July 23 at 10:36 p.m. EDT (0236 GMT on July 24).

Asteroid research and planetary defense is of great interest to scientists around the world, which is why June 30 marks international Asteroid Day.

Alien rocky worlds cocooned in hydrogen and helium could prove habitable to life as we know it for billions of years, with key features such as temperate conditions and liquid water, a new study finds.

We should be intrigued, but not too excited (yet). Any interesting signal has to go through a lot of tests to check whether it truly carries the signature of extraterrestrial technology.

Neptune will enter retrograde on Tuesday (June 28) and will appear to 'reverse its course' as it moves across the sky. Here's how to see it.

The Large Hadron Collider is the world's biggest particle accelerator. It's located at the European particle physics laboratory CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland.

NASA has called off plans to launch a small cubesat to the moon on Monday (June 27) to allow more time to check its Rocket Lab booster for flight.

Rocket Lab will launch NASA's CAPSTONE cubesat to the moon from New Zealand atop an Electron booster and you can watch it live online.

NASA revisits a spectacular Hubble Space Telescope shot of the dwarf galaxy ESO 318-13 in this stunning photo.

At 468 days in space, Buzz Lightyear has spent the longest time ever in space on a single mission.

The moon will pass close to Mercury in the predawn sky on Monday (June 27). Find out how and where to see this skywatching event.

You can watch the five naked-eye planets align for free on a livestream that will be running Sunday (June 26).

Researchers have found a new way to detect some of the most cataclysmic mergers in the universe before they happen.

The Gaia star-mapping mission gives us brand new information about star formation and moons around asteroids, as well as secrets about the Milky Way's origins and possible future.

This portable telescope setup is ideal for intermediate amateur astronomers who want to get serious.

Director Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic "Blade Runner" celebrates its 40th anniversary in June 2022.

A gorgeous photo opportunity will greet skywatchers on Sunday (June 26) when the slim crescent moon meets Venus in the early morning sky.

Never-before-seen microbes living deep beneath the permafrost at one of the coldest and saltiest water springs on Earth could provide a blueprint for life on Mars.

NASA to launch three rockets from the Arnhem Space Centre in the Northern Territory of Australia

The Curiosity rover might be spotting signs of the Martian climate drying up in ancient times.