Space News & Blog Articles

A once-tiny spot on the sun's surface grew over the weekend to the size of Earth. It may end up launching some flares and solar eruptions our way.

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity took to the skies on Saturday (Aug. 20) for the first time in more than two months, acing a short hop that was its 30th overall Red Planet sortie.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is heading back to an enchanting outcrop of sedimentary rocks the spacecraft first visited back in April.

International satellite services firm Intelsat has lost control of one of its broadcast satellites after it was presumably disabled by space weather.

New to image processing? Citizen scientist Judy Schmidt guides Space.com through the basics of creating a spectacular image from raw telescope data.

That's a saving of over $35/£35 per month and gives you access to top apps including Photoshop, Premiere Pro and more.

Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to travel beyond the solar system and enter interstellar space. The probe is still exploring the cosmos to this day.

Researchers used computer models to estimate the rocket's acoustic levels, determining they were not high enough to cause such damage.

Lagrange found that the difference between an object's kinetic energy and potential energy unlocked something deeply profound about the universe.

The Orion spacecraft will carry humans further into space than they have ever journeyed before in a series of increasingly challenging missions.

The Galileo Project is the first systematic scientific research program in a search for artifacts or remnants of extraterrestrial technological civilizations.

The Artemis mission will soon usher in the next era of space exploration, carrying humans back to the moon and then beyond thanks to the most powerful rocket ever built, the Space Launch System.

With NASA's return to the moon with Artemis moving ever closer, lunar scientists look forward to the possibilities for science.

NASA has cleared its Artemis 1 mission to launch an uncrewed test flight around the moon on Aug. 29.

For 400 years sunspots have been used to measure the sun's cycle, but a newly suggested 'circle of fifths' system could predict dangerous and violent solar events years in advance.

One hypothesis for the nature of dark matter is that some of it could be self-interacting, meaning the individual particles interact slightly with one another.

Scientists hope CuSP will pave the way for a network of weather stations in interplanetary space.

Impressive infrared images of Jupiter's auroras were processed by citizen scientist Judy Schmidt.

A custom-built chamber for testing an upcoming NASA space telescope has arrived at Caltech in Pasadena to help ready the spacecraft for launch in 2025.

Located 54 million light-years from Earth, the spiral galaxy NGC 4424 once consumed a smaller galaxy. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has spotted a supermassive black hole hidden in this cosmic meal.

On Thursday Aug. 25 we will have an opportunity to catch sight of the two brightest objects in the night sky, Venus and the moon, engaged in a final morning dance.