Space News & Blog Articles

SpaceX chief Elon Musk just gave us an inside look at the engine section of a Super Heavy rocket that's coming together at the company's South Texas site. There's a lot of plumbing involved.

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will have to wait to make its triumphant trip to space.

Nauka's bumpy ride to the International Space Station didn't get any smoother after the new Russian science module docked on Thursday (July 29).

The CST-100 Starliner capsule and its Atlas V rocket rolled out to their pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station this morning (July 29) ahead of their planned Friday liftoff.

Bright reflections that radar detected beneath the south pole of Mars may not be underground lakes as previously thought but deposits of clay instead, a new study finds.

A pair of astronomers have proposed two new strategies for preventing possible asteroid impacts.

A fizzled example of a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion known in the universe, suggests these outbursts can be surprisingly brief, researchers say.

The International Space Station has gained a new room after a 13-year wait for its launch and a week-long journey in Earth orbit.

Never-before seen slow waves of plasma on the surface of the sun have been discovered in data gathered by NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory over the past ten years.

Here's everything you need to know about Boeing's Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2) mission to the International Space Station.

For the first time ever, scientists have seen the light "echoing" from behind a black hole.

Boeing's astronaut taxi is stepping into the limelight again, and the stakes are even higher this time.

The company's Electron rocket launched a small satellite for the U.S. military early this morning (July 29), acing its first mission since a failure in mid-May.

Retired NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg has teamed up with apparel company SvahaUSA to create a "Dinos in Space" clothing line.

Art critics have hailed figurative painter Amoako Boafo's "stratospheric rise" among the "upper echelons of the art world." Little did they know, the stratosphere would only be the start.

When Earth's sun grows into a red giant 5 billion years from now, solar wind will shred our planet's magnetic field to bits.

China sent three Yaogan 30 series satellites into orbit and used the launch to test controlling the rocket's falling nose cone with a parachute.

It's hard for an exoplanet to keep itself together in the neighborhood of two parent stars.

If you were to place a galaxy behind the black hole and then look off to the side, you'd see a distorted image of the galaxy. Here's why.

The U.S. Space Force plans to launch an experimental research and development satellite to low Earth orbit early tomorrow (July 29), and you can watch the action live.