Space News & Blog Articles

Ancient grains of dust that are older than the solar system itself have been found in samples from asteroid Ryugu brought to Earth by the Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft nearly two years ago.

Scientists will study the effects of radiation on yeast in preparation for long-duration crewed missions to deep space.

Artemis 1 is the first stage of the Artemis program designed to return astronauts to the moon. The uncrewed mission will travel to the moon and back.

The sun has spat out two clouds of plasma in the past two days, which might trigger beautiful aurora displays observable as far south as New York later this week.

A Chinese X-ray telescope has detected the strongest-ever magnetic field recorded by making observations of a rapidly-spinning neutron star, or magnetar.

An international team of researchers has devised a plasma-based approach to producing oxygen on Mars to support exploration.

Writer Beth Revis discusses her new "Star Wars" novel, "The Princess and the Scoundrel"

A new NASA video "Path to the Pad: The Rocket" details the awesome might of the SLS megarocket.

Earth is the only planet we know possesses continents, a scientific mystery, but new research indicates the continents may have been created by meteorite impacts in Earth's distant history.

Scientists think that when dark photons collect around black holes, they can get trapped and boosted to high energies, where they might transform into other particles (or even just normal photons).

Students at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands are developing the world's smallest and lightest moon rover, called Lunar Zebro.

Studying unusual processes of how ice accumulates below ice shelves here on Earth could hold lessons for the exploration and habitability of Jupiter's moon Europa.

Astronomers hope to use pulsars scattered around the galaxy as a giant gravitational wave detector. But why do we need them, and how do they work?

The Lunar IceCube and Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper (LunaH-Map) missions will search the moon for water using two different techniques.

An interview with British sound designer Johnnie Burn on his masterful work for the sci-fi film "Nope."

A prototype of the lunar rover demonstrated its capabilities in navigating the moon's challenging terrain.

Engineers are testing a system designed to destroy NASA's massive Space Launch System moon rocket in case of a launch emergency.

At 'supercriticality,' the difference between the liquid and gas phases of a material seems to disappear. New research finds that this weird tipping point may be simpler than scientists thought.

NASA will roll out its massive rocket for a flight around the moon earlier than planned.

Dark energy could be caused by pressure from giant voids of nothingness that may be flinging the universe apart.

Hubble Space Telescope delivers a stunning new image of stellar gas and dust in the Orion Nebula