Space News & Blog Articles

Telescopes that observe the universe in the most energetic form of light may help scientists detect the "fingerprints" of gravitational waves, new research reveals.

The Babylonians may have first started applying mathematics to scientific study nearly 3,000 years ago to discover the pattern underlying eclipses, nearly 3,000 years ago.

A new study has revealed that the imbalance of craters seen on the nearside and far side of the moon is the result of disruption to the moon's mantle caused by a massive collision around 4.3 billion years ago.

The sun unleashed a major solar flare over the Easter holiday weekend, likely setting the stage for more solar storms to come.

NASA has decided to roll its Artemis 1 moon rocket off the launch pad and back to a processing facility to fix some issues revealed by a recent "wet dress rehearsal" test.

See amazing photos of the Full Pink Moon of April 2022 over Easter, Passover and Ramadan on April 16.

SpaceX launched a spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office and landed the returning rocket back on Earth today (April 17), acing yet another spaceflight twofer.

Over the decades, the Big Bang theory has taken on some pretty heavy challengers. Let's explore those alternatives and why they didn't work.

Here's how many tiny and large space rocks hit the moon on a regular basis.

SpaceX will launch a spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on Sunday (April 17), and you can watch the liftoff live.

Charlie Duke thought he was on his way to exploring an area of the moon that was different from where astronauts had gone before. He just did not know how different it really was.

Director Sam Raimi embraces cinematic insanity with Marvel's "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" in this new featurette.

Mercury will join the evening sky of April after sunset starting on April 16. Here's how to see it.

The wave likely scoured the surface of the weakly magnetic planet.

The Full Pink Moon of 2022 will rise tonight amid Easter, Passover and Ramadan.

A Shenzhou spacecraft carrying three astronauts landed safely in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region today (April 15), wrapping up the Shenzhou 13 mission.

The next attempt to fuel Artemis 1's huge Space Launch System rocket could come as early as Thursday (April 21).

SpaceX's Crew-4 astronaut mission to the International Space Station is 'go' for launch next weekend.

After months living and working in space, NASA's SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts are nearing the end of their mission and ready to come home.

China's first astronaut crew to spend a record-setting six months aboard the country's new space station returns to Earth tonight and you can watch it live online.

Amateur astronomer Alexander Krivenyshev snapped a gorgeous shot this morning (April 15) of Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn shining over Manhattan's Upper West Side.