Space News & Blog Articles

Investigating these co-orbiting worlds in our own solar system may help us predict prevalence in extrasolar systems.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the otherworldly image of IC 564 when it looked at this region to learn more about 'clumpy' star formation.

Reports are coming in from observers who caught a few early shooting stars.

Officials promise geology 'from 50 light-years away,' as they train the James Webb Space Telescope's high-precision spectrographs on two exoplanets.

If you're hoping to see the potential tau Herculids meteor shower, NASA advises you to check the weather and be ready for the unexpected.

These finds could shed light on how supermassive black holes form in galaxies like our Milky Way.

Setting up any kind of off-Earth mining industry will be no small feat. Let's look at what we're up against.

The test was designed to study how gas behaves in microgravity, and the results may lead to future experiments with the fifth state of matter, Bose-Einstein condensates.

A potential meteor shower may emerge from Hercules tonight (May 31-31). Keep your eyes peeled and your fingers crossed.

It sounds like the premise of a bad sci-fi movie: There's some mysterious entity, beyond the boundaries of our galaxy, that is pushing against us with incredible force.

Astronomers have spotted the first evidence of a merger event that gave a black hole a kick that left it traveling at around 3 million mph — fast enough for it to escape its host galaxy.

Our list of the best binoculars for stargazing, birdwatching and more.

We've tried and tested the best drones out there. Here's our definitive ranking.

Starliner will be checked over to assess how it held up during its recent flight test. Then, Boeing will begin upgrades to prepare the vehicle for a crewed mission, hopefully later this year.

A free Virtual Telescope Project webcast will stream live views of the potential meteor storm from the tau Herculids meteor shower overnight on May 30-31.

The Sierra Club and others have filed lawsuit against Texas officials over Boca Chica closures during SpaceX Starship activities.

The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit has awarded two contracts for nuclear propulsion and power systems in space by 2027.

People in New York can catch the gorgeous "Manhattanhenge" this Memorial Day weekend on May 29 and 30.

This glorious Hubble Space Telescope image showcases "Hidden Galaxy" IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning new view of two galaxies intertwined in a turbulent gravitational dance.