Space News & Blog Articles

A space rock transformed into a fireball within view of millions on Monday (Feb. 13) about 10 years after the Chelyabinsk event that saw a small space rock explode over a Russian town.

Visible light images, far-ultraviolet data, and infrared data are combined into one detailed portrait of the spiral galaxy NGC 6872, which is a whopping 522,000 light-years wide.

Green comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) has been predicted to have a period of 50,000 years, but there’s a chance it’s racing out of the solar system.

2023 will have two very special solar eclipses. While the first solar eclipse is incredibly rare, the second is easily accessible to millions of North Americans.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the U.S. shot down an unidentified flying object over the Yukon, Canada at his request.

A major solar flare erupted from the erupted from the sun on Saturday (Feb. 11) and a NASA spacecraft caught it on video.

The Black History Month event Friday (Feb. 10) included astronauts, NASA directors and a discussion of why diversity matters, with high schoolers making up much of the audience.

The icy volcanism of Pluto's moon Charon may be driven by an internal frozen ocean erupted through a thin shell.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a young, distant galaxy feasting on its neighbors just like the early Milky Way once did.

A new image taken with two cutting-edge telescopes shows a spiral galaxy as a swirling formation of bright blue and shining gold, with the golden regions representing the building blocks of new stars.

A robotic Progress freighter docked to the space station just sprung a leak, two months after a similar issue arose on a Russian Soyuz crew spacecraft.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an open star cluster known as NGC 2660, which contains hundreds of loosely bound stars in the constellation of Vela.

India's national space agency ISRO has begun testing a mock crew module for the country's most ambitious mission, Gaganyaan.

SpaceX plans to launch 55 of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit just after midnight on Sunday (Feb. 12), and you can watch it live — if the weather cooperates.

Dramatic new photos highlight Thursday's (Feb. 9) landmark static fire test, in which SpaceX's Booster 7 Starship prototype ignited 31 of its 33 Raptor engines.

A U.S. fighter jet shot down a mysterious object over Alaska on Friday (Feb. 10), six days after taking out a big Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina.

Gaseous planets close to their star could see their hydrogen atmospheres evaporate, leaving behind helium that could be detected by the James Webb Space Telescope.

The four-time NBA champion is reaching for space with Blue Origin's non-profit, Club for the Future.

A robotic Russian cargo craft will arrive at the International Space Station early Saturday morning (Feb. 11), and you can watch the action live.

The company will launch NASA's two-spacecraft ESCAPADE mission in 2024 with its forthcoming New Glenn rocket, assuming Blue Origin has it ready in time.

Two enormous cracks in Earth's crust opened near the Turkish-Syrian border after two powerful earthquakes shook the region on Monday (Feb. 6), killing over 20,000 people.