Space News & Blog Articles

Less than three weeks since the first MetOp Second Generation weather satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, was launched, this remarkable new satellite has already started transmitting data from two of its cutting-edge instruments, offering a tantalising glimpse of what’s to come.

On Wednesday (Sept. 3), the asteroid 2025 QDB will come to within just over half the distance between Earth and the moon, and you can watch its progress live online.

September’s night sky features the iconic Summer Triangle, almost directly overhead at nightfall, and a newcomer to the evening sky: the planet Saturn, which will rise in the east not long after sunset. Get tips for viewing these and lots more stargazing info by downloading this month’s Sky Tour podcast!

Mercury will be close to Regulus embedded among the stars of the constellation Leo.

Today, NASA recovers over 90% of the water used in space.

A new live-action trailer for the upcoming sci-game "Borderlands 4" is here urging us all to "Quit Earth" and get on the rocket.

The view underneath SpaceX's Starship spacecraft shows the Super Heavy booster's complex array of 33 Raptor engines.

Hasbro, the toy manufacturer, and Disney, who own the rights to Star Wars, both make top lightsabers, but what are the differences between them?

The Potensic Atom 2 is an upgrade on its successful predecessor and now you can get the lowest-ever price on a useful bundle when you get it on Amazon.

Titan Books' hardcover cartoon collection makes you see militant Klingons in a whole new light.

NASA is using Colorado's rugged peaks to rehearse the risky final moments of future Artemis lunar landings.

The writing has been on the wall for years that the UK Space Agency would be scrapped, but will its end after a mere 15 years in existence undermine Britain's space ambitions?

"The surfaces of Nix and Hydra are as close to unaltered as you can get."

Beyond the blaze, wildfires can have rippling effects on a community’s health and the land.

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has tracked near-light-speed electrons back to the sun, finding two distinct families generated by solar flares and CMEs.

The European spacecraft en route to Jupiter, named JUICE, completed its only flyby of the planet Venus

A new concept for a next generation space telescope could provide an affordable breakthrough in the hunt for Earth's twin.

The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has split the flood of energetic particles flung out into space from the Sun into two groups, tracing each back to a different kind of outburst from our star.