Space News & Blog Articles

Obi-Wan finally swings his lightsaber around and makes whooshing sounds as Darth Vader makes his return.

Jupiter's moon Europa is set to obscure a star while being shadowed by its own host planet.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory spotted enormous shock waves racing away from a collision of two galaxy clusters.

NASA's Voyager 1 team is trying to work out why the spacecraft appears to be confused about its location in space, but the mission's distance from Earth makes solving the issue challenging.

Europe's Gaia space telescope creates the most comprehensive map of the Milky Way, allowing astronomers to study our galaxy's distant past, as well as its future.

An Astra rocket carrying two small hurricane-tracking satellites for NASA failed to reach orbit Sunday (June 12) after a major malfunction.

The nearly full moon will block a bright double star in the night sky tonight (June 12). Here's how to see it.

Marvel Comics unveiled its upcoming "Star Wars: Yoda" series at Star Wars Celebration 2022.

NASA's new SLS megarocket for Artemis 1 is back on the launch pad and you can see live views right now for free.

The European Space Agency will release new data from its Milky Way-mapping Gaia mission on June 13. Here’s how you can get the latest updates from the telescope live.

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array snapped a stunning image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1087.

"Comet," "star" and "planet" are category names that immediately tell you something important about what they describe.

The brilliant planet Venus will shine near Uranus before sunrise early Sunday (June 12). Here's how to see them.

Here's how to watch the full Strawberry supermoon of June 2022 rise over Rome for free online on June 14.

Touching two time crystals together has created an important building block for a quantum computer.

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is one step closer to starting its journey to Jupiter's icy moon.

Universal Pictures unwraps the final release trailer for director Jordan Peele’s "Nope"

NASA's Artemis program has inspired a new exhibit and annual Moon2Mars festival at Space Center Houston, the agency's Texas visitor center.

Momentus' newly launched Vigoride space tug has been experiencing some issues in orbit.

AfterShock Comics releases a brilliant new sci-fi adventure in "Where Starships Go To Die."

June's full moon, known as the Strawberry Moon, will come the same day the moon reaches the closest point in its orbit around Earth, making it a "supermoon".