Space News & Blog Articles

The calendar might say “September,” but now is the perfect time to explore the Summer Triangle. Find your way with this month's Sky Tour podcast.

Image: 3D-printed lunar floor

We're getting a bird's-eye view of some of the damage Ida has wrought, thanks to before-and-after photos snapped by Maxar Technologies' WorldView-2 satellite.

Powerful eyes in the sky watched the menacing maelstrom Ida churn through the southern United States, even at night.

Learn all about the U.S. Space Force's robotic X-37B space plane, which has flown six mystery missions to date.

The launch of NASA's Earth-observing Landsat 9 satellite will be delayed a week due to a shortage of liquid nitrogen.

In this July 28 photo, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson views the Space Launch System for the Artemis 1 mission inside the Vehicle Assembly Building. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

The earliest NASA’s first Space Launch System moon rocket could roll out from the Vehicle Assembly Building to its seaside launch complex in Florida is in late November, officials told Spaceflight Now, leaving little time to conduct a critical fueling test, roll the rocket back into the VAB for final closeouts, then return to the pad for liftoff before the end of the year.

By entangling the motion and quantum properties of a beryllium crystal, scientists have achieved unprecedented precision for measuring electromagnetic waves.

Fans may have had limited access to U.S. Open tennis tournaments over the last year and a half, but at least they can view it from space.

NASA is looking for student teams to enter its TechRise Student Challenge, which tasks students in grades six through 12 with designing experiments to launch on a suborbital spaceflight.

Humanity is feeling the effects of climate change around the world, but could climate change make humans go extinct?

In this file photo from 2017, several Praxair tanker trucks deliver liquid oxygen to launch pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

The effects of a nationwide liquid oxygen shortage caused by the recent spike in hospitalized coronavirus patients has already delayed the launch of a Landsat imaging satellite by a week, and threatens to impact more missions from launch sites in Florida and California.

Explore a mythic ocean planet to carve out a future for a community haunted by oblivion.

NOAA's GOES 17 satellite has captured this video of Caldor Fire as the blaze spread south of Lake Tahoe and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents.

Mysterious repeating pulses of radio waves may come from a hitherto unknown kind of extraordinarily powerful cosmic magnet, and not pairs of stars as previously suggested, a new study finds.

Gamma Cassiopeia may lack a proper name, but the middle star of the "W"-shape constellation is worth finding on the sky.

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Quantum technology or stage at a music festival? Both would have one thing in common: students.

What are the chances that a primordial black hole forged in the earliest moments of the universe will come wandering toward Earth?

The ESA are asking astronaut applicants to be patient as they process more than 23,000 applications. The deadline for submissions was in late June, but thousands are still waiting to discover if they’ve made the cut.

There's no consensus yet on how supermassive black holes form, but a new mesmerizing simulation is taking a crack at that question like never before.