Space News & Blog Articles

Recently discovered comet Pan-STARRS is heading towards the sun in late April, but will we be able to see it?

A massive Antarctic ice shelf that covered an area about the size of New York City or Rome just collapsed into the ocean.

Russia has once again threatened to end its cooperation with the West on the International Space Station program.

NASA called off a critical fueling test of its Artemis 1 moon rocket Sunday due to safety concerns with ground equipment.

Learn about the spacecraft's interior and its key role in lunar missions during the 2020s, including planned moon landings.

Lightning struck the launch pad home of NASA's giant Artemis 1 moon rocket several times on Saturday (April 2), but the rocket is in good health and on track for a critical test. 

Space-based solar power is one of the technologies to feature in the government's Net Zero Innovation Portfolio.

Venus, Saturn and Mars will be visible and very close together this week in the predawn sky. Here's how to see it.

Observations from the Hayabusa2 mission have astronomers questioning the true origin of asteroid Ryugu, a new study shows.

The first all-private mission to the International Space Station by Axiom Space will launch no earlier than April 6.

A Rocket Lab Electron launcher lifted off Saturday (April 2) from the company's New Zealand site, carrying two BlackSky Earth-observing satellites to orbit.

As the planets rise in April we're given stunning views, if you know where to look.

A red giant star in the final stages of its existence has been caught emitting strange smoke-like rings for the first time.

On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. What would the same storm do today?

On Wednesday, March 30, residents in Bloomington, Indiana, and surrounding counties were literally shaken to attention by the sound of an exploding meteor.

Before launching Apollo 11 to land astronauts on the moon, NASA secretly sent a fourth grader there first. That is one of the stories in Richard Linklater's "Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood."

Axiom Space and its crew are ready to make history.

A series of solar storms aimed at Earth this week have supercharged the Earth's auroras, creating dazzling displays for skywatchers.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 40 spacecraft to orbit for a variety of customers — and the rocket's first stage came down for a landing on a ship at sea.

The commissioning stages of the James Webb Space Telescope just ticked off yet another phase.

Four people are scheduled to go to space during Axiom Space's debut mission, and you can watch many of the events live.