Space News & Blog Articles

In this column, I'll provide reviews of three books that I consulted during my formative years in the hobby.

Start stargazing and grab a great deal on a Celestron telescope in the process.

Neutrinos are so small that scientists once thought they had no mass at all. Neutrinos do have mass, however, and physicists have now put a new upper limit on it: 0.8 electronvolts.

If Jupiter were the size of a basketball, Earth would be the size of a grape.

NASA's Perseverance rover has now been exploring Mars for a full year, and it has captured some amazing photos during that stretch.

A year after arriving on the Red Planet, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter continues to push the limits of off-Earth flight.

NASA's Perseverance rover has been on Mars for a full year now, but in some ways the robot is just getting started.

"Space Force" is one of an unprecedented number of quality sci-fi shows coming (or coming back) to the small screen this summer.

The next time a space rock races through the solar system from beyond, humans will be a little more prepared to unlock its secrets.

The designs aim to land moon spacecraft safely in the dark.

Coca-Cola is returning to space. The soft drink, which in 1985 became one of the first carbonated beverages to be taste-tested in orbit, is attempting to deliver the taste of space to Earth.

The clouds were so faint that NASA employed special imaging techniques to spot them.

A Cygnus cargo ship launching toward the International Space Station this weekend will carry an experiment designed to improve fire safety on moon and Mars missions.

The team tested images and sensors ahead of flying to the moon of Saturn.

Astronomers have discovered the largest radio galaxy ever, stretching at least 16 million light-years through space, new research shows.

The fine-guidance instrument is key to keeping the space telescope pointed in the right direction.

The Sicilian volcano is 'smoking' and 'spitting lava,' one astronaut reports.

Space is the zone above and around our planet where there is no air to breathe or to scatter light. Space is a vacuum, but it is far from empty.

NASA's InSight Mars lander has shaken off the effects of a recent dust storm, likely allowing the spacecraft to collect science data for a few more months.

These tunes are out of this world.

If a super-advanced civilization had to ability to engineer the solar system from scratch, how many planets could they squeeze around the sun?