Space News & Blog Articles

Boom! Studios is offering up an sci-fi Christmas gift with "Firefly Holiday Special #1."

Standby for destruction on a truly planetary scale as mankind once again struggles to survive in "Moonfall."

About 60 hours after launch, NASA's next-generation space observatory nailed the second of three required course-correction burns.

From Starship to Starlink to civilian flights, the California company is growing a 'monopoly' in space.

From insects to primates, from dogs and cats to cold-blooded reptiles, animals have played a significant role in space exploration since the first fruit flies launched to Earth's upper atmosphere in 1947.

The phrase "It's not rocket science" is commonly used to describe tasks that aren't difficult or complicated. But are rocket scientists really smarter than everyone else?

The sun is in its main sequence, but how do scientists know when our nearest star will begin to call it quits?

You can score a Boba Fett's Starship in Lego form for $10 off at Walmart right now.

A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifts off Dec. 27 with 36 OneWeb satellites. Credit: Roscosmos

A Russian Soyuz rocket launched Monday with 36 more OneWeb internet satellites, the 12th of 19 Soyuz missions needed to deliver into orbit the company’s first-generation network of nearly 650 spacecraft.

NASA's new James Webb Space Telescope successfully deployed a critical antenna Saturday (Dec. 26).

An Arianespace Soyuz rocket launched dozens of new internet satellites into orbit Monday (Dec. 27) to boost a growing megaconstellation by service provider OneWeb.

From suborbital space to high Earth orbit, space tourism is just getting started.

The disaster recorder aims to set us on a better path by watching our every move.

The Book of Boba Fett promises to pack plenty of sci-fi punch.

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with 36 OneWeb broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.

From simulated moondust to an ultraflat floor, a 3D-printed human bone to a wall decoration that once flew on the Hubble Space Telescope, the new 99 Objects of ESA ESTEC website gives visitors a close-up view of intriguing, often surprising artefacts assembled together to tell the story of ESA’s technical heart.

The James Webb Space Telescope is finally aloft, but it'll be a while before it starts its highly anticipated science mission.

The James Webb Space Telescope was a decade late and $10 billion over budget, but it has finally launched. 

The mysterious presence of mantle materials more than 1,000 miles (1,609 km) from where they originated may be explained by a 'window' 62 miles (100 kilometers) below the Earth's surface.