Space News & Blog Articles

Sci-fi owes a lot to classic Star Trek, but some of it aged quite poorly, and the new shows only served to highlight that to us.

Astronomers may be interpreting James Webb Space Telescope's measurements of exoplanet atmospheres wrong, a new study suggests.

A fireball broke up between northern Ireland and Scotland on Wednesday (Sept. 14) at 9:57 p.m. local time, glittering green in the view of populations around the United Kingdom.

A spinoff from the space shuttle program is offering people in menopause with relief from hot flashes, NASA says.

Pizza pies have been launched frozen into space and been likened to the moon in song. Never before, though, has a pizza been said to be "space-flavored." That is, until Papa Johns' "Planet Chorizo."

Like polar expeditions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and future human missions to the moon or Mars, we are working in close quarters at the Haughton-Mars Project.

The Weedo Tina2 isn’t the biggest FDM printer, but it’s a great way to get into 3D printing.

Rocket Lab will launch a radar satellite Thursday (Sept. 15), and you can watch the action live.

Save $150 on this excellent 4K drone that comes with tons of accessories in this Amazon deal.

This app-aligned telescope proves an affordable option for backyard moon and planet gazing.

A trail of SpaceX Starlink satellites are visible in front of a haunting green aurora, as witnessed by AuroraWatchers.com in a video shot near Fairbanks on Sept. 2.

Thomas Zurbuchen guided the agency's Science Mission Directorate through an eventful and successful stretch that saw the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, among other projects.

Solar Orbiter's measurements of the environment around Venus might help explain how the scorched planet's atmosphere changes over millions of years.

NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted a phenomenon scientists had lost hope of ever seeing on Mars.

SpaceX touts the ability of its Starlink satellite constellation to beam internet service to remote areas around the world, and it doesn't get much more remote than this.

What is the gravitational constant, how do scientists measure it, and is it really constant or can it change across time and space?

Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope and recently retired Spitzer Space telescope, astronomers traced the timeline of a supernova explosion called SNR 0519.

NASA requested proposals for two additional private missions to the International Space Station to run between late 2023 and 2024, adding on to others approved or already flown with Axiom Space.

NASA plans a briefing Thursday (Sept. 15) to discuss the Perseverance Mars rover's findings so far. You can watch the briefing live at 11:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT).

Most drones can only shoot photos in landscape format, but by shooting vertical panoramic images you can capture and create high-resolution portrait format images with ease.

Skywatchers can watch as the moon blocks Uranus from view on Wednesday, Sept. 14 in an event called a lunar occultation.