Space News & Blog Articles

'Designing something new as a creator is incredibly exciting, but at the same time, it’s an extremely challenging endeavor.'

From volcanic landscapes and a sunset eclipse to six-minute totality, here are the pros and cons of the next two total solar eclipses.

Discover the tales behind four famous spring constellations.

On Episode 209 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Garrett Reisman and Steve Lindsey, the leaders of the new organization Astronauts for America.

Voyager, the iconic twin spacecraft that NASA launched in 1977, are still flying in interstellar space. But their power is dwindling, and it's unclear how much longer they can last.

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy partnered with Artemis 2 commander Reid Wiseman to create stunning, never-before-seen views of the far side of the moon.

The Pentagon released a new tranche of UFO files on Friday (May 8). Among the documents are nearly 30 videos, which feature a range of intriguing objects.

Powerful bright blue cosmic explosions called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients could be caused when a black hole or neutron star slams into the universe's hottest class of star.

If you only knew the power of Boardwalk

What sci-fi gets right (and mostly wrong) about all the ways that space wants to kill you.

See the glowing arch of our Milky Way's core at its peak in the spring sky

Blue Origin continues putting its first lunar lander through its paces, testing the spacecraft at NASA centers across the nation to prepare it for its upcoming mission to the moon.

We must fight the Lylat Wars... again.

NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft rests after its flight around the moon, charred from the return to Earth.

Forget apps — May's bright stars and classic spring constellations make this the perfect time to learn the sky the old-fashioned way, one star-hop at a time.

It would appear we now have 10,091 candidate exoplanets to go through and confirm.

Dante's description of the fall of Lucifer to Earth from heaven seems to sport many of the hallmarks of an impact, forming a multi-ringed crater with a central peak.

SpaceX just took a big step toward its next Starship test flight, firing up all 33 engines of the vehicle's Super Heavy on the pad in Texas.

The rock is nicknamed "Atacama."

PlayStation and Housemarque's follow-up to Returnal packs a punch and makes great use of PS5's unique features, but it's often at odds with itself.

NASA, working with the Space Force, plans to launch a space weather mission later this month to study a strange "ring current" surrounding our planet.