Space News & Blog Articles

Space.com caught up recently with Uri Oron, head of the Israel Space Agency, to discuss the private Ax-1 astronaut mission, New Space and Israel's big ambitions in the final frontier.

A tug-of-war between neighboring stars led to the formation of two strange types of red giant star, as seen in the eyes of a lost telescope.

Eytan Stibbe, a private astronaut and the second Israeli to ever reach space, prepares to celebrate Passover in orbit.

Today (April 14), NASA called off the latest attempt to fuel up Artemis 1's huge Space Launch System rocket, a crucial part of the mission's pre-launch "wet dress rehearsal."

A newly created isotope of the silvery metal lutetium has a strange squashed nucleus and a half-life of just a few hundred nanoseconds.

Frost extends across the surface of a southern crater on Mars in a new photo of the Red Planet.

We went hands-on with the upcoming 'Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters.' For the Emperor!

France's highest court revoked SpaceX's license to provide internet services via its Starlink megaconstellation, citing monopolization concerns due to the size of the company's operations.

Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter. The SpaceX and Tesla chief announced his bid to buy the social media company Thursday (April 14).

The recent Russian signal attacks against Ukraine mark one of the first times we have seen this strategy 'in theater,' an analyst said.

Over the past few months, Promin Aerospace has proven its concept of a unique self-burning rocket, an idea based on autophagic, or "self-devouring," technology.

After a dead sunspot hurled a ball of plasma toward Earth earlier this week, medium-sized auroras may stretch even farther south than usual.

After almost 60 years of dressing up like an astronaut, Barbie has launched into space for real. Two of the iconic fashion dolls are now on the International Space Station for "Mission DreamStar."

Russia's space program will power through the "difficulties" that have followed the nation's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

This stunning sunrise on Mars comes courtesy of NASA's InSight Mars lander, which took the photo on April 10, 2022.

Even though Earendel is 50 times the mass of the sun, and millions of times brighter, we would not normally be able to see it. We can see it due to an alignment of the star with a large galaxy cluster in front of it whose gravity bends the light from the star to make it brighter and more focused – essentially creating a lens.

The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity aced its 25th flight on the Red Planet last Friday (April 8), setting new personal bests for speed and distance.

The full moon of April, called the Pink Moon, occurs Monday, April 26 at 11:32 p.m. EDT (0332 GMT on Tuesday, April 27). It will also be a "supermoon."

You can save up to $300 on some pretty awesome telescopes when you get them from B&H.

Scientists are studying a "cosmic dawn" object born just 750 million years after the Big Bang.

A minuscule amount of microscopic moon dust sold for half a million dollars after NASA determined that the particles came from the first lunar sample collected by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong.